Richard Bray

Status update: Temp – 40 – 42 deg Km’s complete – approx. 120km in 3 days. Terrain – sand, rocks, dunes, mud flats, salt flats and everything else you can imagine if you were to picture a hot day on mars. Blisters – 13 including 2 blood blisters. Legs – quads are stuffed. Calves are […]

Day 2. After surviving day 1, we rested and recovered getting ready for the 2nd day of racing. After a good day, I started to ask questions.. why am I here, do I really enjoy this, can I really get through this let alone get a good place. More and more questions kept entering my […]

Saturday morning meant game time. We packed up our bags and headed to the other hotel for the race briefing and check in. It was the first chance we got to check out all the other competitors. The field was packed with experience and very fit people. My top 10 finish is going to be […]

Going to need bucket loads of both to get me through this week. Belief and Faith that my training has put my body and mind in the right place to tackle this challenge. Love my daily quotes care of my caring and supportive wife. The Boys Fellow Competitors The Sunset

So, after months of training and mental preparation, the time to head to the desert was finally here. I jumped onto my flight at Heathrow and got ready for the long haul to South America. I had to fly to Madrid then to Santiago then onto Calama and then get land transport to a small […]

South Devon, the further most point of the South Coast of the UK. A rugged landscape set next to one of the most beautiful stretches of water ever seen. Emma and I drove down on the friday night after work. 4.5hrs in the car was a tough trek and we got to bed late. Not […]

It was a cold wet morning with the sun peaking through the clouds. We had travelled to Dorset with a crew of friends ready for the Endurance Life Dorset Race series. I had tried to convince Fabien, Westo and Tim to do the Marathon (29Mile / 47km) course but none of them were up for […]

What was meant to be a glorious run in the sun turned out to be a demonising run in the rain. The Nice to Cannes Marathon or the Marathon Des Alpes-Maritimes as the locals call it, is a run from Nice to Cannes along the coast line. The French Riviera is synonymous with fine weather, fine food […]