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Ben Hammersley is a British journalist, broadcaster, and photographer, currently based between Florence, Italy, and London, England. Here is his biography on wikipedia.

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Penitence, maybe

June 15th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under
As I wrote on my other blog, I’m competing in the Yukon Arctic Ultra this coming February. 300 miles overland in -40˚C, non-stop, self-supported, and that usual silliness. Ben Saunders suggested the event to me, so we can all blame him. But still, asking why is one of those pointless questions: if you have to ask, as the cliché has it, you’ll never understand. I’m not entirely sure myself, but the whole thing makes me ridiculously happy when I think about it. I’ll be writing about the training over the next few months, perhaps on another site. Meanwhile, I’ve put back online something I wrote after writing the Marathon des Sables in 2004.

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