I've started training for the biggest challenge of my life so far...

The Marathon Des Sables 2024.

The Marathon des Sables is a truly immense 250km multi-stage ultra-marathon through a mythical landscape in one of the world's most inhospitable environments the Sahara desert. You have to be self-sufficient and carry all your own food and equipment for the week on your back as you make your way across the sand dunes.

What I'll face on the MdS:

After touching down in Morocco, over just 6 days I will run over 250km (156 miles) through endless dunes, over rocky jebels, and across white-hot salt plains. The sun will be my constant enemy with temperatures regularly reaching 50 centigrade. The sand will be my constant companion, clouds of it under my feet, sheets of it stinging my eyes and lots of it chafing where it shouldn't. The long stage has become a legend in itself.

I will run out of a Saharan morning, into the dusk and then the dark, many not finishing the 80+km (52 miles) till well into the next day. My feet will swell, crack and bleed under the pressure and the heat. But none of this will matter when I cross the finishing line having rasied much needed awareness and funds for two important charirties:

1. Hope for Children

2. Parkinson's UK

Thanks 🙏