MY 100 ULTRAS CHALLENGE - 2024 PROGRAMME

(Quick link to my donations page, click here: Wonderful )

(And I've a Facebook fundraiser if that's easier for you, which ends on the 23rd April.)

Thanks for stopping by my blog.👍

I've done all my actual ultras - as opposed to my virtual ones - through https://www.actionchallenge.com

They are a wonderful company who cannot do too much for you. Highly recommended. And I shall be doing 4 events with them this year:

The London Winter Walk at the end of January (accompanied by my two granddaughters and one of their boyfriends!); Easter50 Challenge; North Downs50 in August; and the Thames Path100 Challenge (continuous) in September. 🙂

Here I try and detail all my ultra adventures - don't always succeed, as I'm not the most disciplined bloke in the world - both for my own amusement, and for anyone who is interested. I do ultra marathons for two reasons - one because they're bloody good fun, and, more importantly, they are also a means of fundraising for charities which are dear to my heart, and benefit the animals. 

I appreciate that times are hard - but these are also difficult times for charities, as I'm sure you'll appreciate. Through my ultras, I'm fundraising for Viva! who have been very active rescuing animals from Ukraine - and have an animal sanctuary in Poland. They also do sterling work exposing the horrors of animal abuse in farms and slaughterhouses. Here's a link for anyone who is in a position to donate, Wonderful * (whose services are completely free). Many, many thanks for the awesome support my efforts are receiving! And the animals thank you, also.

*If you have any trouble with this link, please email me at paulwyoud(at)gmail.com.

I have several people to whom I look for inspiration - and I found most of these on Rich Roll's podcast. Rich Roll himself, of course, is one of my heroes, being a vegan ultra runner and ironman extraordinaire. Through his podcasts I've been introduced to a whole range of endurance athletes and positive thinkers. David Goggins and Fiona Oakes, stand out - two of the most inspirational athletes around today.

PRESS UP CHALLENGES: 1 MILLION IN 10 YEARS - AND 100 IN A MINUTE

Sunday 1th March 2023

One more milestone reached, today - I've now completed 600,000 press ups - in just under five and a half years! Just 400,000 to go - and I've four and a half years in which to get them. I averaged 11,800 press ups a month over the past year, at this rate I'll finish my challenge sometime in my 89th year.

STUFFED MUSHROOMS

Ingredients:

2 large field mushrooms

Mushroom pate

Pesto

Cayenne pepper to taste

Method:

Using the back of a spoon, spread the inside of the mushroom with the pate, and cover that with a teaspoon - or less, you don’t need a lot - of pesto. Squash any stalk - broken up a bit - into the pesto. Sprinkle with Cayenne pepper.

Microwave for about 5 minutes, until the mushroom is soft. Serve with potato wedges and veg.

Cost (early 2024):

Mushrooms 49p/100g, so - 250g = £1.25
Tartex pate (from my local HFS) is £3.50/200g and you'll need about 50g = 90p

1 teaspoon vegan pesto = 20p

Total £2.35

Bottom: covered with homemade passata