by Jess Lilley - Tuesday, 26th August, 2008
At around 07.45 hours on Sunday August 3rd a huddle of BD bodies stood atop the summit of Ben Nevis in Scotland, shivering and exhausted. After beginning our ascent in the pitch darkness at around 4’o’clock that morning, we’d finally reached our goal: we’d climbed the 3 highest peaks in the UK in under 24 [...]
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by Rob Sellers - Wednesday, 20th August, 2008
I’ve been looking forward to Beijing 2008 ever since the curtain came down on Athens four years ago. The Olympics is my favourite 2 weeks of sport - nothing, not even the footy World Cup comes close for me. There’s so much more romance, more personality, more to lose and more to gain. Clearly, like everyone [...]
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by Jess Lilley - Thursday, 10th July, 2008
Next month some 25 of us BD’ers will be heading to the hills for charity, climbing up and down 40km of UK mountainside in 24 hours as part of the Three Peaks Challenge. ‘That’s 1/3 of Everest!’ the literature cheerfully exclaims. That right there is enough to completely freak me out.
Like Ollie writing before me [...]
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by Josephine Groom - Friday, 4th July, 2008
Do you use YouTube.com? Well, the US judicial system has ordered Google to hand over the details of all users, ever, since YouTube started. But just what are those details? You won’t escape if you have a dummy email address because your computer’s I.P. address (Internet Protocol Address) will be submitted.
This has me really [...]
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by Ollie Meats - Thursday, 3rd July, 2008
Well, the ‘Three Peaks’ is only 4 weeks away and, by now, I should be well into my training schedule. That was the plan, anyway, but I’m yet to go for any long walks (downstairs to the T Bar doesn’t count!) and have only just started to ‘break-in’ my boots (what ever that means).
So, if [...]
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