One of Scotland's most outstanding athletes with numerous world-first swims to her credit including the Pentland Firth, from Orkney to Mainland Scotland, and The Minch from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides back to the Mainland.

Colleen talks in detail about those swims, growing up in a family where swimming the English Channel was a normal, almost required, thing to do.  Plus she gives swimming tips for dealing with jellyfish.

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Colin and his paddling partner Davis were the first people to circumnavigate Great Britain in an open canoe.  Quite a trip for someone who spent most of his life as a climber, graduating to the big walls of Yosemite valley.

Colin has just written a very good book about their journey, Only Fools and White Horses available through his website Soure-2-Sea.co.uk

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Donnie has won the British trail running championships, a Skyrunning world series race, represented Great Britain, has made speed ascents of Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya, and now coaches runners.

Here he share stories of those adventures and in particular his record breaking winter Ramsay Round of 24 Munros in 24 hours in hash, dark, winter conditions.  He’ll also share some ideas of staying fit during a lock-down. 

Donnie's website is GetActiveRunning.com
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As if cycling around the world wasn’t hard enough, Markus Stitz did it on a single speed bike.  Twenty one thousand miles, and deliberately avoided any notion that he’d achieve a Guinness world record.

His website are bikepackingscotland.com and markusstitz.com
He organises Dirt Dash events
He's on Twitter and Instagram

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