http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Fri, 24 May 2013 02:00:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/02/19/the-road-to-the-north-face-ultr-trail-du-mont-blanc-sporting-heroes/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/02/19/the-road-to-the-north-face-ultr-trail-du-mont-blanc-sporting-heroes/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:46:48 +0000 Gail Edmans http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=32667 Without wishing to come across as a weirdo stalker, if I could dedicate one room in my house to sporting heroes, I would plaster the walls with posters of John McEnroe, Rafa Nadal, Chrissie Wellington, Marion Jones, Lance Armstrong and Haile Gebrselassie, to name but a few. I have watched them, cried over them, cheered them, and to varying degrees, felt let down by them.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/02/19/the-road-to-the-north-face-ultr-trail-du-mont-blanc-sporting-heroes/feed/ 1