I’d forgotten how good for the soul a long bike journey is: 8 days trans-Sardinia under our own steam; incredible wild nature, challenging uncertainty, delightful surprises and oddly quite a lot of rain while the U.K. basks in sun!

Got back to Brum from Greenland, then was burgaled while sleeping. All camera gear, laptops, cards, passports, taken. My lovely van too: crucial to kayak trips & full of gear. It's distinctive, so if anyone near spots this grey VW Transporter with kayak racks please get in touch!

Full frames of honey already; cycling over Gospel Pass in a vest and warm strawbs from the garden - bit of a summer going on here.

The rugby scrum looks way more frightening to me Brian!

A few years ago we started managing a piece of steep upland ground for diversity - and particularly for flowers. From sheep-cropped nothingness when we took it over, it’s now happening 💥👊

Conversations on the Land Weekend and A LOT of chat, learning and inspiration. And I did not think I’d need my WATERPROOF SOCKS, two coats and waterproof trousers in July. #pleasecanwehavesummerback

Glorious Autumn events still with spaces: Beginning Fell Running Weekend for Women: Sept 23 & 24 Trail Running Weekend for Women: Oct 13/14/15 Special Retreat Weekend at Treberfydd House: November 10/11/12 FULL DETAILS: element-active.co.uk

A swoop of such joy to be utterly caught up in this thriller of a superbly written novel.

Halifax to home in Abergavenny by bike. 309km, 3 days. Lots of traffic free routes. What a joy and how fascinating to piece the geography of the country together in this way.

They cost £400 a pair. Designed to be used once 😳. “We’ve gone from a sport where essentially all you needed 20 years ago was a pair of trainers and a vest, to where the footwear has essentially been weaponised quite substantially. ” theguardian.com/world/2023/sep…

“Exceeded all my expectations! Utterly inspiring!” Packed A LOT in on our Element weekend: Trail Running, nutrition talk, sports massage,GREAT conversation. Inspiring talk on resilience, fascinating presentation on new pain research a MapRun in the sun.

With none of the bureaucracy and expense associated with the reintroduction of native wildlife, hundreds of non-native pheasants have been released near to our farm. They are now eating our 'crop' ('crop' being defined as biodiversity). In what world does this make any sense?

Rain - one thing we do well in Wales …

Stopped in my tracks by this astonishing digital artwork in central London. Here’s a snip - by Universal Everything

.Ruth Pickvance's Llanbedr to Blaenavon (23/03) & Cwmyoy Horseshoe (27/04) #fellraces entries are live #Fabian4Entries Ll-B : fabian4.co.uk/default.aspx?E… Cwmyoy : fabian4.co.uk/default.aspx?E… Pls RT

This is just brilliant Jimmy Watkins big Welsh cwtches to ya all the way across America.

Llanbedr to Blaenavon Fell Race 2024. Some stellar performances in challenging conditions. Grassroots fell running at its best. Thank you from my heart to all my marshals on summits in horizontal sleet and sub zero temps for 3 hours!

Great to see you Woodentops YOU are amazing and as I always say deserve an OBE for your services to Fell Running

Biking Calabria: hills and more hills; wild flowers; ancient abandoned medieval towns; eating like kings.

Arrived in Reggio Calabria down the spine of the Apennines. What a glory journey of constant surprise through Calabria’s mountains and national parks with black pine pollen smoking the air, cherries and warm figs, barely any traffic and that’s Sicily across the water.