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September 18, 2005 04:28 PM
Ben Saunders - Athlete, Adventurer, Web-Designer
No matter what you do in life, there is somebody, somewhere is doing it much better. This is a truth that proves itself to me nearly everyday. Everywhere I go, people are doing things better than I'll ever do. (I'm not complaining... merely commenting on it.)
Ben Saunders is certainly no exception to this rule. Here's a guy, who's roughly my age who's managed to ski cross-country, on his own from Siberia to Canada. At 25 he was the youngest person to reach the North Pole. Over the past few weeks I've been watching his website. So far he's:
- Announced that in Oct 2006 he and a friend are doing a 1,800-mile, four-month round trip, from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back. No dogs, no vehicles, no kites, no resupplies. Details here.
- Crashed his car at 70 mph on a London motorway.
- Took off to Spain for a long weekend.
- Ducked over to NYC.
- Ran 18 miles in 2 hours in Central Park.
- Flew back to the U.K. to run a duathalon the next day.
At some point he's found the time to start a web-design business and agreed to help me with the colour scheme of this site. Check back over the next couple days, I expect you'll see a new and improved site very soon. In the meantime, I'll be watching Ben's site closely; he's doing a lot of things that I wish I was doing. I'm hoping I'll be able to draw some inspiration from him and his website.
Color... oooh, I like color.