Skiing into the endless white – by James Garnett
Hey, I’m James and I’m a kidney transplant patient who loves a big adventure. I’ve taken part in adventures...
Life gives you lemons By Emma Young
Earlier this year I was delivered the news that my job was at risk of redundancy and that I’d...
LANGTANG & GOSAIKUNDA EXPEDITION By Sara Crossland
I recently returned from a 9-day trek to Langtang Valley and Gosaidkunda. Here’s the story:
In late Spring 2023, having...
Running in No Man’s Land – by Aleksandra Jagiello
Coming to Svalbard was my dream for a long time and the timing of its yearly marathon could not...
MY TRANTER’S ROUND: A LESSON IN MENTAL FORTITUDE – By Sally...
I was standing at about 1,300m, blinking up through the mist and drizzle at the small rocky outcrop that...
Iceland – can you ski there on a budget? by Jon...
Iceland and Scandinavia are
becoming increasingly popular for snow sports. With social media flooded with beautiful chalets,...
Are women better at pushing the endurance boundaries? by Jon Fearne
Jasmine Paris’ recent triumph at the Berkely Ultra has rightly caused a stir. Both the first female to ever...
The Dales Way – by Jane Chadwick
Massive thank you Jane for sharing this great adventure.
I am relatively new to running but not that new to...
The Big One before The Really Big One – By Cat...
This was it, the big one. Well, the big one before the ‘real’ big one! For some, crossing Greenland...
Dig deep (in name and nature) By Pat Saunders
My running story is a relatively short one really, I started in 2021 after slipping on a patch of...
Migration Gravel Race – by Robin MacAndrew
I’m a ball player. Not an athlete. And certainly not an endurance athlete. So, at 45 years old and...
Trans-Alp/Trans-Alpine- The first Athlete to complete both MTB and Run across...
I did not set out to be the first. If I'm completely honest, I only realised several months after...
Riding the Tour Aotearoa – we are all capable by Emma...
Introduction
I first heard about the Tour Aotearoa (TA) http://www.touraotearoa.nz/p/home.html on an Adventure Syndicate training camp in January 2020 from a...
Montane Yukon Arctic Ultra-100 miles – Teri Polesky
And just like that it was over. I could not wrap my head around the fact that I was...
An unremarkable human – Italy Divide, By Alex Watts
An unremarkable human, 1250km of unsupported adventure, a misplaced helmet, a grin and a sore bum.
After a much longer...
My Tranter’s round; going solo on big mountain routes. – By...
It was great to have the opportunity to work on Anna's training for this round, given her amazing confidence...
A Change of Scenery and a Return to Racing – By...
It's been great working with Sally on her come back into some racing, E3coach have worked with Sally for...
Sharing the journey, not just the finished product
This article is about busting the myth around social media and how we actually get to achieve these amazing...
Find Your Cup of Tea
This is my simple approach to early mornings, when I really don’t feel like getting on it, as always,...
BASE Magazine interview with Jon Fearne, by Chris Hunt
Welcome to the golden age of endurance in adventure. Massive physical feats of over vast wild spaces and huge...
Drive Vs Motivation
I hope by writing this to clear up some confusion between drive and motivation and how we can start...
Losing the Fun By Jon Fearne
I worry sometimes that the F word is getting lost. And whilst it’s not good for our sports, it’s...
Training for a 2500km mountain biking adventure – By Andy Dodd
LOVE BIKE PACKING? HOW ABOUT TAKING ON A TWO WEEK, 2500 KM ADVENTURE ACROSS THE UK?
Having spent much of...
That Bad session that is Good by Jon Fearne
I want to discuss a common occurrence that happens when training for endurance events or adventure challenges.
When I mention...
Age is but a number (interview with Legend Life After 40)
Follow the link below to listen to my interview and check out the over 40's community of adventurous people.
https://legendlifeafter40.com/stories/jon-fearne/
I...
Why Work with E3C – Sara Crossland (an athletes view)
At 44 years old and 12 months out from a brain haemorrhage and subsequent surgery to remove a tumour,...
The Fear from Looking Up
We have all heard the phrase “whatever you do don’t look down” this is often used when we are...
Multi Sport Podcast (interview)
Last week I did a podcast on endurance, adventure and working as a coach in this industry. I was...
Building Strength and Muscular Endurance – Bike specific
This article shares a training method I use with road and XC cyclists to add specific strength/muscular endurance to...
Psychology wins the day, insight into working with adventure athletes. by...
Working with and training with dangerous environment athletes has shown me how important the psychology training we do is....
Midday on 17th March 2020 – The Forge Blog
A little read into 2020 as a professional endurance and adventure coach, what a crazy year. Go check out https://www.theforgeblog.co.uk/together-series plus...
Those Good Junk Miles
There is a time and a place that the aforementioned Junk miles become a whole lot more thank Junk.
We...
The Preventative Process by Jon Fearne
“How do I get through an endurance event mentally?” is a question that regularly comes up in conversations or...
Q Ring Curious, Top rider and physio Scott Cornish Investigates.
Some riders swear by them, others aren’t so convinced. Oval chainrings can be a bit marmite, but are certainly...
Is Running Coaching For You? Welcoming Joe Wenman as E3C Ultra...
I have always enjoyed trail running. Over the years I have ran further and faster than I once thought...
Your ideal racing/performance state of mind
It is such an important part of anyone’s event or race yet is so overlooked and gets lost behind...
Simplicity – Embrace it don’t doubt it
As a coach, I spend so much time debunking crazily complicated training models and ideas that athletes bring to...
Stepping up as a coach
More so than ever working as a coach is not about goals, results or events, it’s about caring for...
Fatigue, don’t ignore the signs
I wanted to address this topic again, as in the current climate many athletes are losing sight of training...
Top 10 Things You Learn When Pulling a Tyre: by Ed...
1. Different surfaces mean very different things to a tyre: It’s difficult to describe the joy gained from seeing...
The Power of Purpose – Climbing the World’s Highest Volcano By...
Purpose, belonging, teamwork, camaraderie – this is what the British Army gave me. I spent over a decade of...
Sickbed to Summits by Sara Crosland
In February 2018, a few months of feeling unwell, my life was turned upside down when I was diagnosed...
Lessons learnt from bikepack racing. Part 2. Feet. by Scott Cornish
As cyclists, a good bike position for comfort and performance is essential, adapting it to our riding preferences, whether...
High Power, by Patrick Meen
High Power is a way of thinking with higher expectations and achieving richness in body and mind. A quest...
Life and Training are like Climbing a Mountain. by Jon Fearne
We start each day with a mountain to climb and for many of us, the start of a mountain is...
Living the Dream by Tim McDowell (AKA Macca)
I read somewhere once that, “success is firstly finding your happy place and secondly, getting paid to go there...”
I...
RUNNING: IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT THE RACES by Jade Phillips
The only race I did last year was the Pembrokeshire Ultra 34 miler. Jon coached me for it as...
Fast and Light By Patrick Meen
These words are banded around a lot in the mountain culture and have made their way into all the...
Wadi Rum by James Cadge
So how was it that a complete none runner ended up here, 3 days into a 5 day ultra,...
Running Mt Toubkal
I’m sure I can’t be alone on this one?
You and your partner are looking for a short break or...
West Highland Way (bike and run) by Naomi Freireich
We had the option to delay when we saw the forecast mid-week. It was looking decidedly sub-optimal (and that’s...
The Physical and Psychological stresses of guiding. By Dave Searle
Mountain guiding is unsurprisingly a strenuous profession, however as with anything it seems to get’s easier over time. Being...
Failure, by Patrick Meen
Failing in the outdoors is an important and necessary process in order to develop yourself.
The modern ‘mountain athlete’ must...
Long Distance Bike Packing (Part 1)by Scott Cornish
I have learnt a few things from long distance bikepack riding, namely about bike set up and products which...
Solo Unsupported Ski to South Pole, by Wendy Searle
Skiing solo to the South Pole was physically hard. It was without doubt the hardest thing I’ve ever done....
Its Not A Sprint (Don’t panic train)
Training during isolation
We have been thrown into a crazy time with many people only allowed to leave their homes...
The Little Things
The Little Things
I have found that as an athlete and coach, focusing on the little things can sometimes have...
Our focus and where it comes from
In a world where we see on a daily (even minute to minute) the bodies of amazing athletes and...
The art of feeling. (Tech vs Mind and body)
Nowadays it’s hard not to notice all the tech surrounding the endurance and adventure sports world, every day in...
When/why to use general and specific strength training
There is sometimes confusion on whether we should be using strength work in our training and what type of...
Missed session – Let it go
I am going to start this article with, its meant to be FUN.
Working with endurance and adventure athletes has...
The season for being poorly.
This is topic is really important to riders of all levels as it can affect anyone.
As a coach I...
Faroe Island – Bike Packing
Great friend and former E3C rider Sam Pantling was tasked with bike packing around Faroe and making a great...
Take it to the max
Traveling to events around the world and listening to athletes talk about their training, keeps showing me a recurring...
Chris Rudd Ultra Distance MTB (stories from Euro and UK Champs)
WEMBO European 24hr MTB Championships – Penafiel, Portugal September 2019
Flying to Portugal for European 24hr Championships brought many new...
3 World titles and their differences
Over the last five years I have been working with Jon with the primary aim of not making a...
Skiing the Haute route- Tails of endurance and adventure…
This all began last winter with my goal of climbing 100,000m on skis. With a dry start to the...
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