Ben Saunders - Polar Explorer, Motivational Speaker

Quick Update

Busy boy at the moment. I finished the London Duathlon on Saturday in 1:47:18, landing me in 67th place (out of 1159 competitors in the 'Challenge' distance and >2,500 overall). I was quite chuffed considering it was my first duathlon (run, bike, run) and the fact that I'd had such a knackering week beforehand. The winner, Jonathan Will, steamed round the (longer than advertised!) course in 1:29:52 and I was amazed how much quicker than me he was in the transitions (changing from running to cycling shoes, putting your helmet on and unracking the bike, and vice versa at T2) - I took 1:36 and 1:27 respectively; he took 49 and 43 seconds.

With a bit of practise at transitions, some rest the week before and some structured speedwork building up to the event (my training has been pretty haphazard of late) I could have knocked a big chunk off my time. Bung in one of these, one of these and some of these, and I'd have been top-ten. (Or so I like to tell myself…) A beautiful day and a brilliantly-run event.

Time is really flying right now. Lots more travelling (in the UK) and speaking this week and some really exciting things going on in the 'next expedition' department…

And yes, the poxy server *still* isn't working properly, but bensaunders.com may have been rescued by the inimitable Pete Barr-Watson. More soon…

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