Barefoot Britain: A running adventure like no other: 4 (Anna's Adventures)

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The daughter of two Olympians, McNuff grew up in a family where the pursuit of physical and mental excellence was encouraged. From age 6 she played football in a boys league and later went on to play for Wimbledon Ladies FC. At aged 16 she took up rowing and went on to represent Great Britain. During her time in the Great Britain Squad, McNuff became a World Champion at the University Games in 2006, [1] and won a bronze medal at the 2007 European Championships. Due to injury she retired from rowing and embarked upon new endurance challenges as an adventurer.

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The group come from all walks of life. Some drop off after a mile, Anna giving them a huge hug to send them on their way, some stay for five miles then head. By the time we near 10km the group has roughly halved. But it’s clear a lot of the group are there to go the whole hog with Anna on the 22 mile stage – and that I, regretfully, am not one of them. Much Better Adventure’s Stuart Kenny after running with Anna on Barefoot Britain. Choose the wiggliest, most mountainous route possible,” advises Anna McNuff in “Llama Drama”, a compelling outdoor adventure book that chronicles Anna and her friend Faye’s six-month journey along the Andes. Barefoot Britain” by Anna McNuff is one of the best outdoor adventure books as it takes readers on a journey of pushing mind and body to the limit by running 100 marathons barefoot from the Shetland Islands to London. I have stepped in poo, glass - and even on a dead rabbit. You don’t have to run 100 marathons barefoot to have an adventure. One of the world’s best-known ultrarunners, Scott Jurek decides to take on the Fastest Known Time (FKT) on the Appalachian Trail in his book ‘ North‘.Funny, honest, inspiring. Anna is wonderfully bonkers, writes brilliantly and cares deeply about the guiding movement. Running well over 2000 miles barefoot in Britain she has adventures, hardships and meets some fascinating people. Stuart is a Scottish travel writer, and editor of the Much Better Adventures Magazine. 2022 Travel Media Awards Finalist: 'Young Travel Writer of the Year', 'Sustainability Feature of the Year'. After two decades of racing, training, speaking, and touring, Jurek felt an urgent need to discover something new about himself. He embarked on a challenge to break the speed record for the Appalachian Trail. I’m actually tending more towards roads now,” she laughs. “Grass is amazing but it’s when I don’t know what the trail is going to bring it’s difficult. The worst thing is the tarmac with the chips over the top. That is brutal. But for the most part suburban and city tarmac is fine.” When running with Anna, she was so welcoming and positive that I would never have realised how low she had felt. That makes me think about how often we all cover those emotions to the outside world and that we often have no idea what is going on in someone else's orbit.

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Starting in the Shetland Islands and ending five months later in London, I weaved my way along rugged coastlines, through small villages, across moors, along beaches, over farmland and even pitter-pattered down the odd picturesque A-road too. Meeting with Girlguiding members along the way Anna has helped inspire them to have the confidence to seek out new challenges and believe they can do anything. Anna met with over 70 units along her journey and many of these heart-warming moments are featured in her book.

Have you ever wanted to kayak down a gorge in New Zealand? Or run night-time marathons through the Californian desert? How about rollerblading 100 miles around Amsterdam? As a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she craved was to be an explorer. In between studying at Oxford and MIT, Harris set off by bicycle down the fabled Silk Road with her childhood friend Mel. With only a farm dog, Holly, labelled “a domesticated wolf” by her former owners, to keep her company, Trina unravels under the pressure of a long-distance relationship and a dawning awareness of the environmental crisis that climate change is producing in the boreal. This book has been the guide to how to do that as an outdoors person in an environmentally friendly way. It’s widely seen as one of the best wilderness adventure books for what it can teach you. Like this article? Sign up to our newsletter to get more articles like this delivered straight to your inbox.