In the UK Day 7 – Wolverhampton/Race Registration

Don’t mind the melodramatic tone I put forward in this video. I am not worried this will be my last video for this, but man, I am indeed scared after seeing the place up close. Most of the structures are a bit smaller than I expected, and a couple were shockingly more fearsome up close [...]

In the UK Day 6 – Taking a bath in Bath

When Christine and I were planning my itinerary, Bath was towards the end of my trip.  Now, my ADD affliction makes it hard to see pretty much anything through to the end, especially something like planning, something that Christine adores and that I loathe. I would like to think that by the time we reached [...]

In the UK Day 5 – Train Day (The choo choo kind)

I was excited about my “train day” through Wales. Getting up early after a good night’s sleep, I headed out to catch my 6:30am to Crewe.
Turns out, it was a 5:50am to Crewe. Undaunted, I waited patiently for the 8am train in the cold, listening to Hanz Zimmer’s score for the boxing show “The Contender” [...]

In the UK Day 4 – Inverness/Glasgow

Ok I promise there is no whisky in today’s update (Though there were Whisky Shops in both Inverness and Glasgow. I can’t get away from it) but there is beer.
I was happy to leave party hostel early this morning for what would be a very long travel day. I didn’t particularly mind making enough noise [...]

In the UK Day 3 – Edinburgh

I have to guiltily say that I barely scratched the surface of Edinburgh.
To be fair, one day is barely enough to make a dent in this unbelievably pretty town. I had meant to arrive via sleeper car between 6:30 and 7:10AM that morning, but upon discovering the sleeper cars cost 43£, I opted to head [...]

In the UK Day 2 – York

An Noc
Craggemore
Glennmorangie
These were scrawled in a small notebook piece of paper I was holding in my hand as I attempted to remember specific directions to The Whisky Shop. They were recommendations, written by the cafe owner I had just bought the “Full English Breakfast” from (complete with complimentary coffee) at The Habit Cafe, a small [...]

In the UK: Day 1 – London

I seem to have stumbled onto the greatest Sunday afternoon quiz/karaoke session ever on at the Lambeth Walk Pub.

After following my fantastic wife’s directions* to my first London hostel, I found it, only to find no one answering the door. Not a big deal, sometimes check-in doesn’t open until 3 in many places. I decided [...]

My Progress: Video 9 – The Ice Bath

Last week I found out that the Tough Guy race organizers have an official “fitness” bar that you should be able to pass in order to compete.  Their requirement?  10 miles in under 2 hours.  So I decided to run 10 miles before the race and see how I measured up.  My time?  1 hour [...]

Gear up for the Toughguy Race

At one point in this journey, I had very real intentions on dressing up for the race in some sort of attention-getting costume. Several ideas were thrown around, the one I liked the most was going as “The Nature Boy” Ric Flair. As the race grew closer, it became clear this was an unrealistic goal. [...]

My Progress: Video 8 – Heat Stroke

When I sat down to look at what I had recorded the on Christmas Day of ‘aught nine, I was truly baffled at what I was seeing.
“This is unusable!” I thought. I was making no sense at all! Christine and I had gone to Maui, a last vacation before the baby comes (I don’t count [...]