#Polar Slugs – The Team!

A few weeks ago we had our first team training session. It was meant to be a 20ish mile circular walk around Hindhead. It was a walk from the LDWA handbook. I had managed to mark about a third of it on the map from the written instructions; we had 3 GPS’s and a compass Read More…

Polar Training – Kit Distribution

I drove down to Yatton, near Bristol for a team training session yesterday. It was the first time we had all been together since early summer, and there was lots of admin to be done. We tasted a selection of the food rations. The breakfasts will take some getting used to. I ordered mostly porridge, Read More…

Question Time ……

Last week I visited Abbots Ann Primary School to talk to the children about Challenge, Olympic Values and in particular my challenge in the Arctic. I did a short presentation, asking them about challenge, what challenges they had done, or were doing; and gave them some information about my trip and preparation. We then had Read More…