Tall Ship SV Tenacious
Liverpool to Dublin aboard the tall ship SV Tenacious. The voyage that preceded Race the Ship and a return to endurance challenges.
Read more →From 19 years in a wheelchair to 1,947 miles in a single year. Every distance, every data point, every condition.
Liverpool to Dublin aboard the tall ship SV Tenacious. The voyage that preceded Race the Ship and a return to endurance challenges.
Read more →In September 2022 I climbed Snowdon in a wheelchair. 3,560 feet of ascent. I tore my rotator cuff in the first mile and kept going. The team raised £20,100. Twelve months later I rode 197 miles on a bike.
Read more →54 miles in 4 hours 45 minutes on an old self-adapted hybrid bike. Eight months earlier I was a full-time wheelchair user. This was the first ride. The one that confirmed everything that followed was possible.
Read more →An inclusive multi-sport event for disabled and non-disabled athletes competing together as equals. Swim, bike, run — no separate categories.
Read more →197 miles over 4.5 days, Great Yarmouth to London, racing the tall ship SV Tenacious along the coast and up the Thames. Mixed-ability team. Human-powered. Three months before this I had ridden my first serious ride back after 19 years in a wheelchair. This was the proof the trajectory was real.
Read more →50 miles through the Norfolk Broads. Prosthetic Physiology tested on unfamiliar flat terrain with significant wind exposure.
Read more →Freezing temperatures, heavy rain, a sustained headwind and standing water for most of the route. Right hip subluxation 20 miles from the finish. Completed. The conditions were the point.
Read more →4 hours. 15.75mph average. Three weeks from a hospital bed, eight weeks off the bike, HRV of 11ms. By any objective measure, I should not have started. I had promised my doctors and my wife I wouldn't attempt the full 102.4-mile route. I chose the shorter 63.1-mile course. Nobody said anything about intensity. That was their mistake. Zone 4 and 5 for the entire ride.
Read more →76.3 miles in 6 hours 33 minutes. Finished the official 54-mile route in 4 hours 14 minutes, extended to Shoreham and up the Downs Link to Christ's Hospital. The extended route was the point.
Read more →205-mile target. DNF at approximately 80 miles. Mental exhaustion from London navigation on top of chronic pain and GI shutdown. Not finishing is not the same as failing.
Read more →105 miles. No training beforehand. No stops except water. Home. Evidence that the framework operates as a default state, not a special effort.
Read more →92 miles, Barry to Gloucester Quays, coast-to-coast over three days. Mixed-ability crew, all riders completing the same route as equals. Finished at Gloucester Quays where Jamie McDonald set his world record in 2012.
Read more →Kings Cross to Norwich via the Dunwich Dynamo route. 12 hours 28 minutes. Zero sleep night before. HRV 17ms, Body Battery 37, Stress 98. Right knee subluxing every pedal stroke. GI shutdown at mile 64. 33 fasted miles. HRV 65ms within 72 hours. Giant FastRoad AR1.
Read more →143.95 miles, 13h23m, with a significant cartilage tear and swelling pre-ride. HRV 17ms. Caloric deficit of 1,838 kcal. Full systemic rebound within 6 days.
Read more →The first major ultra of 2026.
In 2025, 35 riders started and none had a chronic illness. That changes in May 2026.
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