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MY RUNNING

I discovered the truth behind Zatopek's statement as I crossed the finish line of my first ever marathon in London 2004. For me it was a defining and life changing moment, seven marathons later I have never looked back but only look forwards to the next race or challenge. In the last 2 years since my passion for running long distances was born, I have now completed 9 full marathons, an ultra distance race and the adventure marathon that is the Marathon des Sables.

With each race my enjoyment and passion grows, and alongside this passion for running I am cultivating my sense of adventure and desire to test myself to the limits. In the last couple of years I have sky dived (albeit a tandem jump), reached the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro on a solo climb with just my guide for company, raced in a pro-karting challenge to name but a few things. Thus my desire to do more and experience greater adventures grows on a daily basis. However, the desire to run the marathon in under 3 hours is an increasingly important goal - to push the boundaries even further...!!

To the average person on the street to run 26.2 miles is the ultimate endurance test that anyone would put the human body through. Yet, more and more people across the globe complete this event every year. In fact it is fast becoming an essential event in any city's calendar if they wish to be taken seriously on the international stage. So the lure of trying something of an even greater endurance for the real super humans out there has been beckoning at me now for quite some time.

The Marathon des Sables, and other events like it, is regarded as such an event - for super humans, or as one of my brothers describes it: for complete nutters.

I am not by any stretch of the imagination a super human or even an elite athlete, although it has been said on various occasions that I am a complete nutter. I am an ordinary person with a strong desire to challenge my mental and physical limitations and there seems no better place on earth to try and do this than in the Sahara Desert.

In March 2007 I competed in the 22nd Marathon des Sables 2007 where I tested the boundaries of not just one of the toughest and harshest environments on the planet, but the boundaries of my own body and mind. By doing this event I raised £10,000 for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi. Click here to go to my charities page.