I can’t believe I’ve been nominated for a readers award at The Great Outdoors Magazine. There’s lots of awesome people, from cafes to online shops, nominated and all it takes is a minute of choosing your vote in each category. If you enjoyed reading the Run Europe posts, maybe you’d be willing to give me a…
NEW HOME FOR ALEKS’ ADVENTURE STORIES…
This blog served me well whilst I was running through Europe, but it needed a new home, so I’ve relocated to BarefootAleks.com. Please SUBSCRIBE to receive weekly adventure stories, kit reviews, events and more… Thanks for your support Aleks
A Brief History…
Just thought I’d share a brief history of my running. I say I’m not an athlete and here’s why… I started running at the end of July, 2012. I couldn’t manage 30s of slow… I’m sorry! I mean steady running (runners don’t seem to refer to slow running as slow but as steady) with a…
Dear Peak District… – Parting Words Before Parting
Dear Peak District… Let me start be saying thank you. Without you I would not be who I am. Without you I wouldn’t have found what I needed to dig myself out the hole I was in. Without you I wouldn’t be on the path I am now and it’s because of this that I…
Recovered Or Not?
I don’t make a secret of having been incredibly lax in my training. I’ve been putting it down to win lazy but I think there’s a bit more to it, so as always, this is here as a way of me piecing things together and trying to make sense of things. Earlier this year, I…
#RunEuropeNorthToSouth Becomes A Film!
Lots of footage was shot, even more editing was done and the end result is this… A condensation of 6 months into 40 mins. Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed the run.
It’s #ProjectBigSwim – Overcoming Fear – Part 2 – Irrationality
We set out on the Frog Graham route, brain switching to that purposeful mode I’m all too familiar with. We too the footpath up to UnderSkiddaw carpark, remembering the times I’d supported and navigated for others on the Bob Graham Route last year. The line up was easy, and I got a slight smug satisfaction…
#ProjectBigSwim – Overcoming Fear – Part 1 – Making Sense Of It
I thought this might be a bit easier than it is, but I underestimated how deeply ingrained the fear of the water is. Four weeks and being impatient, I want results. I want to be able to enter the water without apprehension and enjoy what I’m doing. At the moment, it’s a constant battle with…
When Is An Adventure Idea A Good One? #ProjectBigSwim
When is an adventure idea a good one? I’ve had a ponder and this is my answer… When it scares the absolute life out of you, you can’t even imagine yourself doing it and you actually can’t see how you’ll be successful. That is all 😉
#ProjectBigSwim – AKA Time To Get Over The Irrational Fear Of Open Water
I should have started this earlier. Not much has happened really, but at the same time, I feel like I’ve made massive progress. I came back knowing that I needed to do something swimming related. The only reason for it was that I’m scared of open water. Scared enough that I found each and every…
Running #RunEuropeNorthToSouth – Part 1 – Norway, The E1 & Decisions
Despite the fact that this write-up of running the entire length of Europe is a distillation of 196 days of adventure running, I should really put explain what led to the final decision to actually get the whole adventure run started. It was partly Neil Bryant and a picture of a trail called the E1 that…
Thanks… #RunEuropeNorthToSouth
I’ve spent ages thinking of what I can type, which words I can string together to try and express the level of gratitude that I genuinely feel, and each time I have the words just don’t seem adequate enough. In truth, I have no real way to say thanks; other than continuing along this path,…
Aleks Kashefi 