Personalised prints from real GPX routes For the days you still talk about.

I started running in 2014, when I entered the London Marathon to raise money for the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation. That led to trails, and the trails led to Chamonix: I finished UTMB in 2016. A year later I set the course record at the Hardmoors 110, the first runner to get round the Cleveland Way in under 20 hours. Since then there have been skyraces in the Lake District and Wales, and in 2025 the Montane Spine Race: 268 miles of the Pennine Way in winter, in 134 hours, 20 minutes and 28 seconds.

Not every day goes to plan. I’ve started Ultra-Trail Snowdonia three times and haven’t finished it yet. The first attempt ended in A&E in Bangor with ten stitches in my knee after a fall on Moel Siabod. The second, I wasn’t fit enough. The third, I couldn’t eat enough to keep going. I’m hoping to go back in 2027, my 50th year, and finish the job.

There are 4,657 activities in my Strava account. Plenty of them were proper adventures, and most are now a line among thousands, half forgotten. It’s the same with the road trips my wife Victoria and I have done round Iceland and Norway, and the walks and runs we’ve shared in the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales. They deserve better than a phone photo album.

So Memories Made Outside is about bringing those days back and putting them on the wall. I run it from Skipton, on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales. I design the prints, draw and check the ready-made routes, and answer your messages myself.