by Challenge Chum | May 20, 2019 | Adventure, Arctic, blog, Challenge, Cycle, Hike, Run, Trail Running, Trek, Tribe, UK
This is how my bucket list read as I approached my 50th year… 1) Run a marathon 2) Bake a cake (successfully) 3) See the northern lights I always thought that marathon running was for athletes, not for folk like me but I can’t bake, I wasn’t planning a trip to the...
by Challenge Chum | May 16, 2019 | Adventure, blog, Challenge, Cold Water Swim, Lake Swim, Outdoor Swimming, River Swim, Swim, Swimming, Swimming Tribe, UK, Wild Swim
I’ve always enjoyed swimming in the great outdoors, quite often if the weather is good I’ll have a quick dip and swim in the sea from Easter time until the end of September. The cold water doesn’t really faze me at all although I wouldn’t say I’m a...
by Challenge Chum | Feb 18, 2019 | Adventure, Challenge, Hike, Orienteering, Scotland, Take on a Challenge, Trail Running, Walk
Orienteering is a sport for outdoor enthusiasts who like to test their brains as well as their bodies! It is an outdoor activity where you walk or run a course via a series of checkpoints, using a map for guidance. Most of the Scottish Orienteering events take place...
by Challenge Chum | Dec 30, 2018 | Adventure, blog, Challenge, Cycle, Run, Swim, Take on a Challenge, Triathlon, UK
Mollie Pearse is now a firm believer in visualisation. Now, that was not necessarily the case when her triathlon journey started a few years ago. She was in ‘The Ship’ (an infamously boozy pub in SW London) with a couple of friends and at the bottom of a...
by Challenge Chum | Dec 9, 2018 | Adventure, blog, Challenge, Great Britain, Row, World Record
With just three days to go, British military veterans and best friends Peter Ketley and Neil Young are ready to embark on the greatest adventure of their lives, a World Record attempt to become the oldest pair to row across the Atlantic kick starting in the Canaries...
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