TorchTriathlon – Athens to London.

With the flight to Athens on Tuesday morning ridiculouslessly close, me and Alex are sorting out the last of our important bits and bobs before we fly out… Bikes, Tents, Protein  and most importantly of all Music Playlist! So we’re abit stuck, we’ve started adding all the bands we saw at Download 2011 (Mr Big, Alice Cooper, [...]

With yesterday’s sudden belt of Winter hitting the UK shores, after two months of feble wintery indifference, to make sure I wasn’t stranded by snow in the gym away from Jaz, my loyal Siberean Husky (who incidently is loving our recent snowfall), I decided to go for an brisk run around the local hills and [...]

Donate: www.JustGiving.com/TorchTriathlon or by text: ‘EURO99 £1′ to 70070   This Lent Alex Hutchinson and I are doing an unprecedented 4000km Triathlon from Athens to London for Macmillan Cancer Support and Amnesty International. To help raise funds for these two charities we’re starting the One Pound Campaign, to encourage people to support us by donating just One [...]

With all the depressing stories in the news and in our daily lives these days, I thought I’d just post my good experiences with people, especially when relating to a charity event. When I walked from Land’s End to John o’Groats (LEJOG) in 09, I had tshirts and a banner (for the backup vehicle) made up [...]

With the date of Lent 2012 fast approaching, which we have used as our own start date for Torch Triathlon 2012, the final push of training and preperation is upon us! I’m regretting implementing the countdown on the website because everytime I look at it we’re a week closer. It seems like yesterday that Alex [...]

Welcome to the new official TorchTriathlon Event Website! As it is a new website, the blog is still very bare but in the future it have Training, Fundraising and On-the-Run updates through pictures, video and blogs and a live tracking service to monitor our progress on the journey next year. So please bookmark/favorite this page [...]