Always Another Adventure

We’re stepping out of the monthly schedule with this podcast to bring you something extra.

There are two parts to this conversation with Nick Butter who we heard from in episode 38.   The second part…

There are nineteen, sort of official, long trails on this island and Martyn Howe has waked them all.   I’ll talk to Martyn about Long Distance Walking and his new book Tales From The Big Trails.  And…

She set out to run around the world.  She could become the first person to do it during a global pandemic.

Marie Leautey, better known as 'Lootie', faced barrier after barrier while trying to run acro…

It’s hard to overstate how ill prepared Elise Downing was to run around the coast of Britain.  But she did it, covering the five thousand miles in ten months.  Her very readable book about the advent…

We cover a lot of ground with Dr Ian Walker, which seems rather fitting.  He ignored sport until the age of 40 then threw himself into ultra-running before abruptly switching to ultra-distance cyclin…

Henry Gold  runs the travel company TDA Global Cycling which organises epic, expedition- length rides that cross continents.  This is not an advert for his business, it’s a story of life filled with …

He has twenty five world-firsts to his credit, including the first person to reach the remote Scottish archipelago of St Kilda by paddle board.   In his twenties, Dean lost his sight but found advent…

By his own admission Kevin Webber is not a great runner, yet he has tackled some of the world's most challenging multi-day races.  His moment of inspiration came from a very dark place, after being d…

Where do you go when you want a new bike?  Your local bike shop?  The internet?  Josh Reid went to the factory of bike maker Giant, in China.  Then he rode the bike home to Newcastle and made an exce…

Patrick Winterton made the first successful kayak crossing of the widest part of North Sea in a double kayak, together with Olly Hicks, retracing the route of the wartime 'Shetland Bus' from Scotland…

Nick Butter ran a marathon in every country as recognised by the UN, all 196 of them, and completed the adventure within two years.   His book Running the World has just been released yet he's off on…

Mark Beaumont is one of the world's greatest endurance athletes.  He rode around the world in 78 days, averaging 240miles each day. 
In this podcast we explore the professionalism behind Mark's extra…

It’s a bike race so hard, even the organisers weren’t sure anyone could complete it.  Competitors had to carry everything they needed, from food to fuel, to be entirely self-sufficient, right from th…

Donnie Campbell ran all 282 of Scotland's 'Munro' mountains in a new record time of less than 32 days, from 1st August to 2nd September 2020 cycling and kayaking between.  Here, for the first time, h…

The world of self supported, ultra distance cycle racing can seem a strange sub culture.  Emily Chappell has captured the essence of being one of these sleep deprived, exhausted riders in her book Wh…

The Highway Code is changing and we all have the chance to influence those changes.  If you ever ride a bike (or for that matter drive or walk down a street) it is worth having your say.

Duncan Dolli…

This is for anyone who thinks swimming is boring.  Ice swimmer Jade Perry talks us through her more unusual swims; glacial lakes, jungle reservoirs, the world ice swimming championships in Russia, an…

In 1993 Trevor Potts was part of an expedition to recreate Shackleton's audacious voyage from Elephant Island, off the Antarctic peninsula, to South Georgia.  Trevor now alternates his time between l…

Once you have run an ultra-marathon on each of the seven continents you join an elite running group with only five members.  One of them in Dr Andrew Murray from Edinburgh.  We talk about that achiev…

Chris Pountney set out to circumnavigate the planet by bicycle and boat, avoiding all motorised vehicles and aircraft.  When he was forced into a car on a border crossing, he started the circumnaviga…