The pneumatic drill in the room woke me up a little before 4am. Actually, there was no drill, there wasn’t even an open widow to carry the sound of a drill to my ears – it was me,...

I woke early snuggled up in my cosy little one man bivvy tent from Cotswold Outdoor in my sub-zero sleeping bag and laying comfortably on the Multimat inflatable matress. The campsite was a mixture of...

Day one I count as Monday evening and Tuesday (it’s my story, so I can make the rules up!). I left ‘home’ on Monday to head to London for an early start on Tuesday morning but...

Setting the Scene.Any good film, play or book usually starts with a scene setting, so to keep up with the Jones’s, so will I.So here I am, at the age of 37 training like a mad man to become the...