We are delighted to announce the launch of our 2012 Overseas Just Events. We think we offer an exciting range of events from a London to Paris bike ride to a trek and rafting trip in Costa Rica or a charity desert trek in Sahara. We hope there’s something here for you.
March 28th, 2011 | Adventure Travel, cancer run, Challenge, Charity Challenge, Charity Challenges, charity dog sledding, Charity Events, charity run, charity trek, Comic relief desert trek, Comic relief Kilimanjaro trek, Corporate, Corporate Event Solutions, Corporate Experience, corporate experiences, Corporate in the community, Corporate Social Responsibilty, CSR, CSR Projects, desert trek, Dog Sled, Dog sledding, Endurance, fund raising ideas, fundraising, fundraising marathon, Just Events, Just for Fun, kilimanjaro, Marathon, open event, Raise funds for the charity of your choice, Social Enterprise, Team, Team Building, teambuilding, Trek, wilderness running | No Comments | 
FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE PT-1000 ROAD AND TRAIL RUNNING SHOE
So far I have covered 90km with equal mix of road and trail running. This also includes the extremely wet and muddy South Devon Costal Marathon in February. First impressions are very good. It appears to be a very robust shoe, perfect for racking up the mileage in training. I love the idea that these shoes are built to last as I always get very attached to good running shoes and often mourn my loss when they disintegrate after a couple of months splashing through the soggy trails of Devon and Somerset
For a robust hard wearing shoe, they are comparatively light and the first thing I noticed is how comfortable and stable they are to run in. Personally I would say that they are better suited to the roads, rather than the winter trails I use. Dry and hard trails would be no problem, but they tread doesn’t cope well with wet, slippy and muddy hills, but you can’t expect a shoe to do everything, and they are a very good all rounder. They are definitely my new choice for racking up the training miles, before putting on a more specialist shoe for grip in muddy trail races. So far so good, and looking forward to putting them thoroughly to the test over the coming year. Next stop this month is the hot dusty trails of Nepal to see how they cope with an adventure race. I imagine that they will do much better in this environment.
Steve Clark
March 8th, 2011 | adventure race, Adventure Racing, Adventure Travel, cancer run, Challenge, Charity Challenge, Charity Challenges, Charity Events, charity run, Endurance, Everest Base Camp, fund raising ideas, fundraising, fundraising marathon, Himalayas, Just Events, Just for Fun, kilimanjaro, Marathon, Namib, Namibia, Nepal, open event, Raise funds for the charity of your choice, Runner, Running, Trek, trek for charity, ultra marathon, wilderness running | No Comments |
If you’re about to embark on an overseas challenge or are planning too, we have some excellent tips from a group of trekkers who have recenlty returned back from Nepal.
Top Tips
Why not join us on a challenge in 2011? Choose from : - Peru | China | Kilimanjaro | London to Paris
January 12th, 2011 | Adventure Travel, cancer run, Challenge, Charity Challenge, Charity Challenges, charity dog sledding, Charity Events, charity run, charity trek, Comic relief Kilimanjaro trek, Corporate, Corporate Event Solutions, Corporate Experience, corporate experiences, Corporate in the community, Corporate Social Responsibilty, CSR, CSR Projects, Endurance, fund raising ideas, fundraising, fundraising marathon, Just Events, Just for Fun, kilimanjaro, Marathon, open event, Raise funds for the charity of your choice, Social Enterprise, Team, Team Building, teambuilding, Trek, trek for charity | No Comments |
Why not set yourself a challenge for 2011? We all set New Year’s resolutions some we keep some we don’t but why not go the extra mile and set yourself a challenge that will not only get you fit but also raise funds for a charity close to your heart.
We have some great trips for 2011 including a Norway Sea Kayak trip, dog sledding adventures, Namibia Ultra marathon, climbing Kilimanjaro or Just Walk – all allowing you to raise funds for the charity of your choice.
We’ve just had a trip come back from Nepal and the feedback has been excellent. So if you join us you too could be saying….
So why not join us in 2011 on one of our fantastic adventures?
January 4th, 2011 | Adventure Racing, Adventure Travel, cancer run, Challenge, Charity Challenge, Charity Challenges, charity dog sledding, Charity Events, charity run, charity trek, Chichester, Corporate, Corporate Event Solutions, Corporate Experience, corporate experiences, Corporate in the community, Corporate Social Responsibilty, CSR, CSR Projects, Dog Sled, Dog sledding, Endurance, fund raising ideas, fundraising, fundraising marathon, Just Events, Just for Fun, Just Walk, kilimanjaro, Marathon, Namib, Namibia, open event, Raise funds for the charity of your choice, Runner, Running, South Downs Way, Team, Team Building, teambuilding, Trek, trek for charity, ultra marathon, West Sussex, wilderness running | No Comments |
Emma Ryan – UK Events Coordinator and Mark Howlett – Flights Manager – took on the mighty OMM last month. They have written up about their experiences and the lessons they learnt!
EMMA – Eyeing up the Shetland ponies quietly munching away at the start line I quickly assessed which one would carry me the fastest to the first check point and beyond. Alas, it was not meant to be and at 9.04 on the dot we were called to the line, thrust a map and set off (clueless, naive and on two feet) into the sparklingly sunny yet still very wet and boggy Dartmoor. We quickly came across our first surprise when, after about 5 minutes, Mark found that he didn’t have any drinking water left in his platypus. Evidently he hadn’t noticed that he had drunk the 2l rations, packed with electrolyte energy mix, between 5.30am and 9.00 am! (Emma – I have to get this bit in now as I don’t know what Mark has written about me!)
MARK – How could something that started off so easily, go so wrong? Emma and I had entered the fun run class of the OMM ( 45km over 2 days on Dartmoor ) without me fully thinking through what we were taking on. Fortunately I was protected by my patented ‘ Cloak of Naivety ‘ which stopped me from worrying about navigating such a distance over Dartmoor at the end of October. How hard could it be?
November 17th, 2010 | adventure race, Adventure Racing, Adventure Travel, cancer run, Challenge, Charity Challenge, Charity Challenges, Charity Events, charity run, Corporate, Corporate Event Solutions, Corporate Experience, corporate experiences, Corporate in the community, Endurance, fundraising, fundraising marathon, Just Events, Just for Fun, Marathon, open event, Raise funds for the charity of your choice, Runner, Running, Team, Team Building, wilderness running | No Comments |
Ryan took part in the Namibia Ultra marathon this May - a 126km race to be completed in just 24 hours – our most extreme event!
The race is across the vast expanse of desert, through the endless space of gravel plains framed by distant ridges and mountains, past dramatic upheavals of granite inselbergs and all under the clearest of blue skies during the day and a full moon during the night. Not only that you will be completely self reliant from the start of the marathon til the end, and will need to carry all your food and equipment on their backs. Water stations and medical tents will be provided at 21km intervals along the route. And to top it all off temperatures are in the region of min 5ºc / max 36 ºc but could be more extreme!
September 22nd, 2010 | adventure race, Adventure Racing, Adventure Travel, cancer run, Challenge, Charity Challenge, Charity Challenges, Charity Events, charity run, Endurance, fundraising, fundraising marathon, Journal, Just Events, Just for Fun, Namib, Namibia, open event, Raise funds for the charity of your choice, Runner, Running, ultra marathon, wilderness running | No Comments |
Our friends at Running Monkey have kindly added a superb write up from novice ultra runner who took part in his first ultra marathon with Across the Divide. Simon Bright had never run an ultra before he set himself the challenge of taking part in the Iceland Laugavegur Ultra Marathon - read how Simon got on here.
August 31st, 2010 | adventure race, Adventure Racing, Adventure Travel, cancer run, Challenge, Charity Challenge, Charity Challenges, Charity Events, charity run, Endurance, fundraising marathon, Iceland, Just Events, Just for Fun, Laugavegur, open event, Raise funds for the charity of your choice, Runner, Running, Thorsmork, ultra marathon, wilderness running | No Comments |
ATD Director Steve Clark is an ultra runner junkie! He likes nothing better than to take off with his dog for lengthy runs in and around Somerset. Having completed the London and Edinburgh marathons he took on the MDS. After these challenges he wanted something different so he set up our portfolio of adventure races. Including the Namibia 24 hour Ultra Marathon, the Iceland Laugavegur Ultra and the Grand Canyon 24 hour Ultra.
It is hoped that this article will give the first time ultra marathon runner some pointers about how to approach a training programme for their first race. Because the prospect of completing an ultra is so daunting, many runners set an unrealistic training programme that involves too much training too soon. This will more often than not lead to an early injury that prevents the runner from training.
August 18th, 2010 | adventure race, Adventure Racing, Adventure Travel, cancer run, Challenge, Charity Challenge, Charity Challenges, Charity Events, charity run, Corporate, Corporate Event Solutions, Corporate Experience, Endurance, fundraising, fundraising marathon, Just Events, Just for Fun, Marathon, Namib, Namibia, open event, Raise funds for the charity of your choice, Runner, Running, Team Building, ultra marathon, wilderness running | No Comments |
ATD Director Mark Hannaford has just returned back from the Iceland Laugavegur Ultra Marathon a beautiful course stretching from Landmannalaugar in the highlands to Thorsmörk, a natural conservation area.
The adventure race blazes a trail through moss fields, meadows of wool grass, steam springs, and bizarre lava formations where various blossoms defy the raw climate.
Do not be fooled by the iconic beauty of this mountain marathon course. This is a tough mountain adventure challenge and having a good race plan is essential. It’s a 55km race that is multi terrain (sand, gravel, grass, snow, ice, rivers and streams). It’s a beautiful run and to top it all off – after the race you get to spend the morning at the http://www.bluelagoon.com – just what’s needed for those tired muscles.
Full race results can be found here.
August 4th, 2010 | adventure race, Adventure Travel, cancer run, Challenge, Charity Challenge, Charity Challenges, Charity Events, charity run, charity trek, Corporate, Corporate Event Solutions, Corporate Experience, corporate experiences, Corporate in the community, Corporate Social Responsibilty, CSR, CSR Projects, Endurance, fundraising, fundraising marathon, Iceland, Journal, Just Events, Just for Fun, Laugavegur, open event, Raise funds for the charity of your choice, Runner, Running, Social Enterprise, Team, Team Building, Thorsmork, ultra marathon, wilderness running | No Comments |
Our team are in the process of returning home from the Iceland Ultra Marathon but we have the results and the whole team finished
Alan Wood – 83rd – 6:33 ( 3rd in the 18-29 age group)
Tom Black – 133rd – 7:00 (6th in the 18-29 age group)
Alex Beard – 151st – 7:11
Ed Hubbard – 162nd – 7:20 (10th in the 18-29 age group)
Neil Turner – 171st – 7:23
Sara Zoeftig – 220nd – 7:56
Richard Steel – 221st – 7:56
Joanne Venus – 246th – 8:24
Simon Bright – 267th – 9:19
Why not join us in 2011? It’s 55km and is multi terrain (sand, gravel, grass, snow, ice, rivers and streams) . It’s a beautiful run and to top it all off – after the race you get to spend the morning at the Blue Lagoon Spa - just what’s needed for those tired muscles.
July 19th, 2010 | adventure race, Adventure Racing, Adventure Travel, cancer run, Challenge, Charity Challenge, Charity Challenges, Charity Events, charity run, Corporate, Corporate Event Solutions, Corporate Experience, corporate experiences, Corporate in the community, Corporate Social Responsibilty, CSR, CSR Projects, Endurance, fundraising, fundraising marathon, Iceland, Just Events, Just for Fun, Laugavegur, open event, Raise funds for the charity of your choice, Runner, Running, Social Enterprise, Team, Team Building, Thorsmork, ultra marathon, wilderness running | No Comments |
