Tall Ship SV Tenacious
Liverpool to Dublin aboard the tall ship SV Tenacious. The voyage that preceded Race the Ship and a return to endurance challenges.
Read more →From 19 years in a wheelchair to 1,800 miles in a single year. Every distance, every data point, every condition.
Liverpool to Dublin aboard the tall ship SV Tenacious. The voyage that preceded Race the Ship and a return to endurance challenges.
Read more →In September 2022 I climbed Snowdon in a wheelchair. 3,560 feet of ascent. I tore my rotator cuff in the first mile and kept going. The team raised £20,100. Twelve months later I rode 197 miles on a bike.
Read more →54 miles in 4 hours 45 minutes on an old self-adapted hybrid bike. Eight months earlier I was a full-time wheelchair user. This was the first ride. The one that confirmed everything that followed was possible.
Read more →An inclusive multi-sport event for disabled and non-disabled athletes competing together as equals. Swim, bike, run — no separate categories.
Read more →197 miles over 4.5 days, Great Yarmouth to London, racing the tall ship SV Tenacious along the coast and up the Thames. Mixed-ability team. Human-powered. Three months before this I had ridden my first serious ride back after 19 years in a wheelchair. This was the proof the trajectory was real.
Read more →50 miles through the Norfolk Broads. Prosthetic Physiology tested on unfamiliar flat terrain with significant wind exposure.
Read more →Freezing temperatures, heavy rain, a sustained headwind and standing water for most of the route. Right hip subluxation 20 miles from the finish. Completed. The conditions were the point.
Read more →76.3 miles in 6 hours 33 minutes. Finished the official 54-mile route in 4 hours 14 minutes, extended to Shoreham and up the Downs Link to Christ's Hospital. The extended route was the point.
Read more →Pre-ride HRV of 11ms. One hour 38 minutes of sleep. SpO2 at 92%. Hospitalised three weeks prior. Four hours at threshold. 63.1 miles completed. The system held. Raised funds for Become, the leading charity for children in care and young care leavers.
Read more →Sunrise to sunset on the longest day. No timing, no route signs, no medals. An annual navigational and endurance challenge that suits a body that functions better moving than still.
Read more →92 miles, Barry to Gloucester Quays, coast-to-coast over three days. Mixed-ability crew, all riders completing the same route as equals. Finished at Gloucester Quays where Jamie McDonald set his world record in 2012.
Read more →Kings Cross to Norwich via the Dunwich Dynamo route. 12 hours 28 minutes. Pre-ride HRV of 17ms. GI shutdown mid-ride. Pain flare. Sleep deprivation. Adverse weather. HRV rebounded to 65ms within 72 hours. Giant FastRoad AR1.
Read more →The first major ultra of 2026.
In 2025, 35 riders started and none had a chronic illness. That changes in May 2026.
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