100 things. One summer. No excuses.
This is your summer. Not the one you watch from a window or scroll past on your phone, the one you actually live. We've put together 100 adventures to chase, challenges to take on, and moments to collect to get you out there. Your SunGods will be there for all of it, built to last as long as your ambition. Guaranteed for Life. Pick your first one. Go from there.
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EVERYDAY
01 — WATCH A SUNRISE
Category: Everyday | Duration: 1 hour | Difficulty: 1/5
Set an alarm for once. Pick a hill, a headland, a rooftop — anything with a view east. Get there before the light arrives. Stand still for five minutes. Come back different.
02 — GO FOR A WALK WITH NO DESTINATION
Category: Everyday | Duration: 2 hours | Difficulty: 1/5
No route planned. No podcast. Leave the house and turn left. See where it goes. Walk until you're somewhere you've never been, then find your way home. Best two hours you'll have this week.
03 — HAVE BREAKFAST OUTSIDE EVERY DAY FOR A WEEK
Category: Everyday | Duration: 1 week | Difficulty: 1/5
Coffee, toast, garden, doorstep, park bench. Wherever works. Seven days straight. The first morning it's a novelty. By day four it's the only right way to start a day.
04 — SWIM OUTDOORS FOR THE FIRST TIME
Category: Everyday | Duration: 1 hour | Difficulty: 1/5
Safety: Choose a designated open water swimming location with lifeguard cover or go with someone who knows the spot. Check water quality before you go.
Lido, river, lake, sea. Pick the one nearest to you. Get in. The first few seconds are the whole experience. Everything after that is just swimming. You will go back.
05 — HIRE A BIKE AND RIDE SOMEWHERE NEW
Category: Everyday | Duration: Half day | Difficulty: 1/5
Any bike. Any town. Pick a direction on the map and follow it for an hour. Turn around and come back via somewhere different. That's the whole plan and it is a very good plan.
06 — PADDLEBOARD ON FLAT WATER
Category: Everyday | Duration: 2 hours | Difficulty: 1/5
Safety: Always wear a leash and a buoyancy aid in open water. Stay within your ability and close to shore until you're confident.
Hire a board. Find calm water. Stand up — eventually. Fall in at least twice. By the end of the session you'll understand why people spend entire summers doing this.
07 — RUN A PARKRUN
Category: Everyday | Duration: 1 hour | Difficulty: 1/5
Free. Every Saturday. 5K. Hundreds of locations. Just register once at parkrun.org and show up. Walk, jog, race — nobody minds. The coffee and biscuits at the end are the real event.
08 — SPEND A FULL DAY AT THE BEACH WITH NO PHONE
Category: Everyday | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 1/5
Leave it in the car. Book, swim, nap, repeat. You will survive. The world will survive. You'll come back better than you left.
09 — PLAY A FULL GAME OF BEACH VOLLEYBALL
Category: Everyday | Duration: 2 hours | Difficulty: 1/5
Find a net. Find five other people. Play badly and loudly. The competitiveness arrives within ten minutes — nobody plans for it, everyone brings it. Someone ends up in the sea on purpose by the end.
10 — GO FOR AN EVENING RUN AND WATCH THE SUN GO DOWN
Category: Everyday | Duration: 1 hour | Difficulty: 1/5
Leave at the right time. Pick a route with a view west. Run slow enough to see it happen. You planned the whole thing and it still surprises you.
BIKE
11 — RIDE A 100-MILE SPORTIVE WITH 3,000M OF CLIMBING
Category: Bike | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 4/5
Safety: Train progressively before attempting. Carry a puncture kit, nutrition, and a fully charged phone. Know the route and always wear a helmet.
The century. Big elevation. Pick the route that's been staring at you on Strava for months. Suffer up every climb. Scream down the descents. Earn the café stop like your life depends on it. It kind of does.
12 — SPRINT A STRAVA SEGMENT YOU'VE SAT SECOND ON ALL YEAR
Category: Bike | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 3/5
You've looked at that name above yours for eleven months. Today is the day. Early morning, legs fresh, conditions perfect. Warm up properly. Go absolutely nuclear. Report back.
13 — GO BIKEPACKING — LOAD UP AND DISAPPEAR FOR THE WEEKEND
Category: Bike | Duration: 2 days | Difficulty: 3/5
Safety: Tell someone your rough route and check in each evening. Carry basic tools and a first aid kit.
Bags on. One change of clothes. No fixed destination. Ride until somewhere looks good enough to sleep. Wake up. Do it again. Come home via somewhere you've never been. Come home different.
14 — RIDE A MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAIL YOU'VE BEEN PSYCHING UP FOR
Category: Bike | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 4/5
Safety: Always wear a helmet and appropriate protective gear for technical trails. Ride within your ability and consider hiring a guide for new terrain.
That black run. The gnarly descent. The exposed ridgeline. Stop saving it for later. Drop in. Commit. The trail has been waiting. You have not been waiting long enough.
15 — CYCLE A CLASSIC ALPINE PASS — STELVIO, GALIBIER, TOURMALET
Category: Bike | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 4/5
Safety: Descend at a controlled speed, especially on unfamiliar passes. Check weather and road conditions before departure.
Pick one. Suffer up it. Scream down it. Stop at the summit, hands on your knees, staring at the view like you've just done something important. You have. Order the biggest coffee they have.
16 — COMPETE IN A CRITERIUM RACE FOR THE FIRST TIME
Category: Bike | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 4/5
Safety: Wear full cycling kit including helmet. Sign up through a registered cycling club and race within your ability category.
Tight circuit, fast bunch, corners that punish hesitation. Crit racing is nothing like gran fondos and everything like an adrenaline problem you didn't know you had.
17 — RIDE A FULL ALPINE MTB DESCENT TOP TO BOTTOM
Category: Bike | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 4/5
Safety: Wear a full-face helmet and body armour for alpine descents. Ensure your bike is fully serviced before heading up.
Lift to the summit. Earn every inch on the way down. Rocks, roots, exposure, corners that never stop giving. The Alps were built for this and you were built to ride them.
18 — CYCLE TO THE COAST, SWIM, CYCLE HOME
Category: Bike | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 2/5
Safety: Swim at a lifeguarded beach or with a buddy. Pack dry clothes and something warm for the cycle home.
No car. No shuttle. Ride to the sea, get in it, ride back. Everything earned in both directions. You will smell incredible by the time you get home. This is a feature.
19 — DO A DOWNHILL BIKE PARK LAP YOU'D NORMALLY DRIVE PAST
Category: Bike | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 3/5
Safety: Hire protective gear if you don't own it. Start on a trail rated within your ability before progressing.
You've stood at the top of it, watched people go, driven home thinking 'maybe next time.' Next time is now. Rent a bike if you have to. Get on the lift. Go.
20 — RIDE A COASTAL ROAD BEFORE 7AM WITH NO HEADPHONES
Category: Bike | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 1/5
Early light. Empty road. Sea on one side. Nothing in your ears but wind and tyres on tarmac. You will have a thought worth keeping. You'll forget it before you get home. Go again tomorrow.
21 — RACE A MATE DOWN A MOUNTAIN — LOSER BUYS DINNER
Category: Bike | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 3/5
Safety: Keep to established trails, stay in sight of each other, and don't push beyond your ability for the sake of a bet.
Same mountain. Same start point. Different lines. Go. The winner will be smug for exactly as long as dinner takes. The loser will spend it planning the rematch. Both outcomes are fine.
22 — RIDE A COAST-TO-COAST ROUTE IN TWO DAYS
Category: Bike | Duration: 2 days | Difficulty: 4/5
Safety: Pre-book accommodation or wild camp responsibly. Carry spare tubes, nutrition, and a phone charger.
Sea to sea. Two full days. Mixed terrain, proper effort, the kind of thing that earns a story rather than just a Strava.
23 — TRY GRAVEL RIDING FOR THE FIRST TIME ON A PROPER ROUTE
Category: Bike | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 2/5
Skinny tyres on loose ground, the constant low-level uncertainty of grip, and the particular satisfaction of going places road bikes can't. Gravel riding is the best genre of cycling and it's not close.
24 — DO A DAWN RIDE BEFORE ANYONE IN YOUR HOUSE WAKES UP
Category: Bike | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 1/5
Alarm at 4:30. Out the door by 5. Home before breakfast. Two hours of completely yours, in light that belongs only to people who got up early enough to earn it.
25 — ATTEMPT A KOM ON A CLIMB YOU LIVE NEAR
Category: Bike | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 3/5
You've ridden it a hundred times. You know every metre. Today you ride it as if the time actually matters. Because this time it does. Leave nothing on the road.
26 — RIDE YOUR BIKE TO A SUMMIT CAFÉ AND HAVE THE WORST COFFEE OF YOUR LIFE
Category: Bike | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 2/5
Not every summit café is good. Some of them are wonderful disasters — powdered milk, a biscuit from 2019, a view worth everything. The suffering of the climb makes it perfect regardless.
RUN
27 — RUN A SUNRISE 5K WITH SOMEONE WHO'S NEVER RUN BEFORE
Category: Run | Duration: 1 hour | Difficulty: 1/5
Adjust your pace completely. Let them lead. Cheer them home. Watch someone finish something they genuinely didn't think they could do. Your best 5K ever. Definitely your slowest.
28 — RUN A BEACH AT LOW TIDE FOR AN HOUR STRAIGHT
Category: Run | Duration: 1 hour | Difficulty: 1/5
Hard sand, bare feet optional, sea air, and nothing but the waterline to follow. Running on a flat low-tide beach is meditative in the way that only repetitive beautiful things can be.
29 — FINISH A 10K PB ATTEMPT ON A CLEAR SUMMER MORNING
Category: Run | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 3/5
You know your course. You know your conditions. You've been building to this. Pick the morning, warm up properly, go through the line like it actually matters. Then collapse somewhere dignified.
30 — ENTER A PARKRUN AND FINISH IN THE TOP 10
Category: Run | Duration: 1 hour | Difficulty: 3/5
It's only 5K. The fast ones go out hard and don't come back. Study the previous results. Show up ready. The Parkrun top 10 is more competitive than it has any right to be. Earn it.
31 — RUN EVERY DAY AT SUNRISE FOR TWO WEEKS STRAIGHT
Category: Run | Duration: 2 weeks | Difficulty: 2/5
Fourteen days. Different routes if you can. Same time. Before the world starts. It stops being a challenge around day eight and starts being the thing you look forward to most. Then summer ends and you miss it.
32 — TRAIL RUN A FOREIGN COUNTRY BEFORE THE TOURISTS WAKE UP
Category: Run | Duration: 2 hours | Difficulty: 2/5
Safety: Research the trail before you go and let someone know your route. Take water and a charged phone.
Wherever you are on holiday. Find a trail the night before. Set the alarm. Get out before anyone else is moving. The country looks completely different at 6am on foot and you are the only person who knows it.
33 — RUN A TRAIL HALF MARATHON WITH NO WATCH
Category: Run | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 3/5
Safety: Plan the route before you leave and carry a paper map for trails without phone signal.
No pace targets. No splits. No data. Run by feel, by the light, by the sound of your own breathing. Finish when you finish. The trail will set the pace. Let it.
34 — RUN TO A SUMMIT, BREW A COFFEE, RUN BACK DOWN
Category: Run | Duration: Half day | Difficulty: 2/5
The ascent is the warm-up. The coffee is the reward. The descent is the reason you came. Three acts, one perfect morning.
35 — RUN A FELL RACE WITH PROPER MOUNTAIN TERRAIN
Category: Run | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 4/5
Safety: Fell races typically require mandatory kit including map, compass, and waterproof. Check the race rules before entering.
Lungs exploding, quads screaming, flags on a hillside, no marked road. Fell running is mountain running that doesn't apologise for itself. Enter something local. Show up. Get absolutely spanked by someone in their 60s. Loved.
36 — DO A DAWN-TO-DUSK TRAIL RUN ON A BIG MOUNTAIN
Category: Run | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 5/5
Safety: This is a serious undertaking. Carry map, compass, emergency bivvy, headtorch, and food for a full day. Tell someone your route.
Start in the dark. Run as the world wakes up below you. Eat on the move. Watch the light change all day. Finish when it goes again. This is what legs are actually for.
37 — RUN A ROUTE WITH NO PHONE SIGNAL FOR FOUR HOURS
Category: Run | Duration: Half day | Difficulty: 3/5
Safety: Carry a paper map and compass and know how to use them. Always tell someone where you're going and when to expect you back.
Paper map. Compass. Your legs and the terrain. No signal, no app, no pace alert. Four hours of moving through landscape that doesn't care about your data. You'll feel more alive than you have in months.
38 — RUN A MOUNTAIN MARATHON OVER TWO DAYS
Category: Run | Duration: 2 days | Difficulty: 5/5
Safety: Mountain marathons require significant navigational skill and fitness preparation. Enter with a competent partner.
Two days. Two people. One map. A bivvy bag. Miles of open mountain between sessions. The mountain marathon isn't a race — it's a test. The second morning tells you who you are.
39 — DO A SWIM-RUN — RUN TO WATER, SWIM IT, RUN BACK
Category: Run | Duration: Half day | Difficulty: 3/5
Safety: Assess the swim crossing carefully before committing. Never swim alone in open water.
No transition gear. Trainers on, shorts on, go. Run to the water, swim across, run back. If it feels easy you picked the wrong lake. Pick a harder lake.
40 — ENTER A TRAIL ULTRA AND TREAT THE FIRST ONE AS A RECCE
Category: Run | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 5/5
Safety: Build base mileage gradually over months before entering. Nutrition and hydration planning is essential.
Enter an ultra knowing the first one is education. Walk when you need to. Eat when you can. Finish. Learn. The next one is where the real racing starts.
41 — RUN A RIDGE ROUTE END TO END BEFORE BREAKFAST
Category: Run | Duration: Half day | Difficulty: 3/5
Start at one end. Run the whole spine. Come off the other side. Get back to the car before the rest of the world has had a coffee. Some mornings are bigger than others. Make this one of them.
42 — ENTER A CROSS-COUNTRY RACE AND GET PROPERLY MUDDY
Category: Run | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 3/5
Grass, mud, spikes, a field of people who mean it. No traffic, no GPS, just a course and a clock. Get dirty. Finish fast. The showers afterwards are earned.
WATER
43 — SWIM OUTDOORS BEFORE 7AM
Category: Water | Duration: 1 hour | Difficulty: 1/5
Safety: Always swim with a buddy or at a lifeguarded venue. Cold water acclimatisation takes time — ease in gradually.
Before the world wakes up. Find a spot you trust. Get in. Come out. Everything after that is easier.
44 — CATCH A SUNRISE FROM A PADDLEBOARD ON GLASSY WATER
Category: Water | Duration: 2 hours | Difficulty: 1/5
Safety: Wear a leash and buoyancy aid. Check wind forecasts — glassy morning conditions can change quickly.
Out before 5am while the water is still a mirror. The light arrives and the world reflects perfectly below you. Then the wind shows up and you have to earn the paddle home. Perfect morning.
45 — SWIM A WILD OPEN-WATER MILE IN THE SEA
Category: Water | Duration: 1 hour | Difficulty: 3/5
Safety: Always swim with a buddy and use a tow float so boats can see you. Check tides and currents beforehand. Wetsuit recommended in cooler water.
Pick two points on the coast map and swim between them. The swell will have opinions. So will your lungs. Both are valid. Get in. Go.
46 — KITESURF A NEW SPOT YOU'VE NEVER SAILED BEFORE
Category: Water | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 4/5
Safety: Always assess a new kite spot carefully — hazards, wind direction, launch and land zones, and local rules. Never kite alone at an unfamiliar location.
New water, unknown hazards, fresh conditions. Recon first, talk to the locals, rig up, go. New spots are where new bests happen.
47 — SPEND A WEEKEND AT A SURF CAMP AND SURF TWICE A DAY
Category: Water | Duration: 2 days | Difficulty: 2/5
Three meals, two surfs, repeat. In the water at dawn. In the water in the afternoon. Sleep between. By day two your paddling is different. By day three everything is different.
48 — COASTEER A STRETCH OF COASTLINE YOU'VE NEVER DONE
Category: Water | Duration: Half day | Difficulty: 3/5
Safety: Go with a qualified coasteering guide if it's your first time. Assess jump heights carefully and always check water depth before jumping.
Swim, scramble, jump, repeat. A new section of coast is like a new route on a crag — familiar rules, completely unknown terrain. Get in it and figure it out as you go.
49 — WHITE WATER KAYAK A GRADE III OR IV RAPID
Category: Water | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 4/5
Safety: Always paddle white water with qualified supervision or an experienced group. Wear a helmet and buoyancy aid. Grade IV requires significant skill — attempt grade III first if new to moving water.
The river is loud. The line is obvious from the bank. It is not obvious when you're in the rapid. That is the lesson. The lesson takes about 0.4 seconds to arrive.
50 — FREEDIVE TO DEPTH IN CLEAR OPEN WATER
Category: Water | Duration: Half day | Difficulty: 4/5
Safety: Never freedive alone. Always dive with a trained buddy using the buddy system. Take a recognised freediving course before attempting depth.
One breath, equalise on the way down, hit depth, turn, ascend slowly. The silence below the surface is a different kind of quiet from anything that exists above it. Seek it.
51 — DO A DEEP WATER SOLO OFF A SEA CLIFF
Category: Water | Duration: Half day | Difficulty: 4/5
Safety: Only attempt DWS in calm conditions, with someone watching from water level. Assess water depth and submerged hazards carefully. Consider going with an experienced guide on your first outing.
Rock over open sea. No rope. Just height and water. The fall is the safety net. It is also the point. Commit to it completely.
52 — DAWN SURF SESSION — IN THE WATER BEFORE ANYONE ELSE ARRIVES
Category: Water | Duration: 2 hours | Difficulty: 2/5
Safety: Surfing alone at dawn carries risk. Go with someone you trust or choose a beach with lifeguard cover when possible.
5am. Your break, your waves, your morning. The sea at dawn is a completely different place from the sea at noon. Learn the difference.
53 — SUP SURF A PROPER WAVE ON A PADDLEBOARD
Category: Water | Duration: 2 hours | Difficulty: 3/5
Safety: Be aware of other water users — a large SUP can be hazardous in a busy line-up. Wear a leg leash.
Harder than it looks and more fun than almost anything else. Paddle for everything. Fall off. Go again. By the end of the session you understand why people do this forever.
54 — SAIL A RACE AS CREW ON SOMEONE ELSE'S BOAT
Category: Water | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 2/5
Find a boat that needs crew and learn the role fast. Racing under sail at pace, with people who know exactly what they're doing, is one of the best team sport experiences available. Show up ready to work.
55 — WILD SWIM A HIGH MOUNTAIN TARN YOU FOUND ON A MAP
Category: Water | Duration: Half day | Difficulty: 3/5
Safety: Cold mountain tarns can cause cold water shock — ease in gradually and never swim alone at remote locations.
Not on any list. No reviews. You found it on an OS map at midnight three weeks ago. Four hours of hiking. Thirty seconds of the coldest, most clarifying swim of your life. Completely yours.
56 — DO A TWO-DAY COASTAL PADDLE COVERING SERIOUS DISTANCE
Category: Water | Duration: 2 days | Difficulty: 4/5
Safety: Check weather and sea conditions carefully. Carry VHF radio or PLB for remote coastlines. Inform the coastguard of your plans for multi-day sea paddles.
Camp on a beach between. Cook something simple. Sleep to the sound of the sea. Wake up, get back on the water. Two days of paddling a wild coastline teaches you things a gym never will.
57 — BODYBOARD A PROPER SHORE BREAK UNTIL YOU CAN'T PADDLE ANYMORE
Category: Water | Duration: Half day | Difficulty: 2/5
Fins on. Prone. Take the full face of the wave like you mean it. Get worked. Paddle back. You are ten years old again and it is absolutely brilliant.
MOUNTAIN
58 — SUMMIT YOUR LOCAL HILL BEFORE 8AM
Category: Mountain | Duration: Half day | Difficulty: 2/5
Headtorch start. Steep in the dark. Golden light by the cairn. That's the recipe. Come down before the day-trippers are even lacing their boots.
59 — BREW A COFFEE AT THE SUMMIT AND DRINK IT WITHOUT RUSHING
Category: Mountain | Duration: Half day | Difficulty: 2/5
Stove, good coffee, proper mug. The whole valley below you. No phone. No rush. Drink every drop. Look at everything. Take nothing. Leave only footprints and a faint smell of espresso.
60 — HIKE A RIDGE ROUTE AND NAVIGATE WITHOUT YOUR PHONE
Category: Mountain | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 3/5
Safety: Ensure you're competent with map and compass before heading into the hills without digital navigation. Tell someone your route.
Paper map. Compass. Your own route-finding. Every decision yours. Make a wrong call, correct it, carry on. The mountain teaches better than any app ever will.
61 — WILD CAMP AT ALTITUDE AND WAKE UP ABOVE THE CLOUDS
Category: Mountain | Duration: 2 days | Difficulty: 3/5
Safety: Check weather forecasts carefully. Carry full mountain emergency kit including emergency shelter, food, and navigation.
Walk in with everything you need. Set up high. Watch the cloud inversion arrive at dusk, sleep inside the sky, wake up above the world. Worth every kilogram you carried.
62 — SCRAMBLE A RIDGE ROUTE WITH YOUR HANDS AS WELL AS YOUR FEET
Category: Mountain | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 4/5
Safety: Grade 1 scrambles are suitable for confident hillwalkers. Grade 2 and above may require a rope. Always assess conditions on the day.
Hands and feet, exposed moves, no rope required but no room for hesitation either. Pick a classic grade one scramble. Commit to the exposure. You will feel every step all the way to the summit.
63 — HIKE A TWO-DAY MOUNTAIN ROUTE WITH EVERYTHING ON YOUR BACK
Category: Mountain | Duration: 2 days | Difficulty: 3/5
Safety: Check weather carefully for your specific range. Carry navigation, first aid, and emergency shelter.
Pack light. Walk far. Ache properly. Find out what you actually need versus what you packed. Most of it is not what you packed. The second day is always better than the first.
64 — DO A MOUNTAIN VIA FERRATA IN THE DOLOMITES OR ALPS
Category: Mountain | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 4/5
Safety: Always hire or carry a via ferrata kit (harness and energy-absorbing lanyard). Go with a guide if it's your first time. Check conditions — wet rock significantly increases difficulty.
Exposed, vertical, extraordinary. The iron road through the most dramatic mountain scenery on earth. Go when the conditions are right. Arrive at the summit having earned every bolt on the way up.
65 — NIGHT HIKE A CLASSIC ROUTE UNDER A FULL MOON
Category: Mountain | Duration: Half day | Difficulty: 3/5
Safety: Always carry a headtorch with spare batteries. Stick to paths you know well in daylight first. Go with others.
Set off at midnight. Walk with headtorches until the moon takes over. Hit the summit as the sky changes. The mountains at night are an entirely different country from the mountains in the day.
66 — COMPLETE AN ALPINE ROUTE WITH A DAWN START
Category: Mountain | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 5/5
Safety: Alpine routes require significant experience, appropriate equipment, and awareness of objective hazards. Go with a qualified mountain guide if you're new to the alpine environment.
A proper alpine objective started before the sun is up and finished before the afternoon storms arrive. This is what all the training is for.
67 — HIKE TO A REMOTE BOTHY AND SLEEP THERE OVERNIGHT
Category: Mountain | Duration: 2 days | Difficulty: 3/5
Safety: Check the bothy is open before you go (mountainbothies.org.uk). Carry full survival kit — bothies are basic and conditions can change.
Remote, spartan, brilliant. Miles from a road. One candle, a small stove, zero phone signal. Cook something. Sleep in real dark. Walk out the next morning feeling recalibrated. You will want to go back immediately.
68 — WATCH A SUMMER STORM ROLL IN FROM HIGH GROUND — IN DAYLIGHT
Category: Mountain | Duration: Half day | Difficulty: 2/5
Safety: If a storm is approaching your elevation, descend immediately. High ground is not a safe place to be during an electrical storm.
Find elevation. Face the weather. Watch the lightning in the valley below. You are safe. You are high. The sky is doing something extraordinary. The best free show on earth.
BEACH
69 — PLAY BEACH CRICKET UNTIL SOMEONE BREAKS SOMETHING
Category: Beach | Duration: Half day | Difficulty: 1/5
Regulation length on packed sand. Bare feet. Tennis ball. A piece of driftwood as the stumps. Full Test Match energy. Zero Test Match skill. The umpiring is terrible. Extremely highly recommended.
70 — PLAY A FULL DAY BEACH VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT
Category: Beach | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 1/5
Round robin, knockout, everything. Sun, sand, spiking things at people you've just met. The best sports day there is. Someone always ends up in the sea. Usually on purpose by the end.
71 — RUN A BEACH SPRINT RELAY IN TEAMS WITH PROPER TRASH TALK
Category: Beach | Duration: 2 hours | Difficulty: 1/5
Mark 100m on flat sand, split into teams, take absolutely no prisoners. Everyone is convinced they're faster than they are. The result always surprises at least one person.
72 — DAWN PATROL SURF BEFORE ANYONE ELSE IS UP
Category: Beach | Duration: 2 hours | Difficulty: 2/5
Safety: Surfing alone at dawn carries additional risk. If possible go with someone you trust.
In the water at first light. Your break, your waves, your morning. The sea is yours before the crowds arrive.
73 — ENTER A SURF COMPETITION — ANY LEVEL, JUST ENTER IT
Category: Beach | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 2/5
Beginner comp, club heat, whatever you qualify for. Paddle out in a jersey with a number. Get scored. The doing is the point. The paddle out feels different with a number on.
74 — CAMP ON A BEACH AND SURF BOTH MORNINGS BACK TO BACK
Category: Beach | Duration: 2 days | Difficulty: 2/5
Safety: Check local rules on beach camping and fires. Leave no trace.
Arrive in the evening. Cook on a fire. Sleep to the sound of the sea. Wake up in the line-up. Do it again tomorrow. Two sunrises in the surf. That's the whole plan and it is a perfect plan.
75 — BODYSURF A WAVE WITH NO EQUIPMENT AT ALL
Category: Beach | Duration: 2 hours | Difficulty: 2/5
Safety: Always swim within your ability at a lifeguarded beach.
No board, no fins, nothing. Just your body, the water, timing, and the belief that angle will be enough. It won't be at first. Then it suddenly will be and you'll never need anything else.
76 — DO A BEACH OBSTACLE RACE — SWIM, SPRINT, JUMP, REPEAT
Category: Beach | Duration: 2 hours | Difficulty: 2/5
Find a beach, set the course, make it chaos. Swim to the buoy. Sprint the sand. Jump the dune. First one back wins. Last one in buys the ice creams. Simple. Perfect.
77 — TRY A FOAMIE ON A BIG WAVE DAY WITH MAXIMUM COMMITMENT
Category: Beach | Duration: Half day | Difficulty: 3/5
Safety: Only surf waves appropriate for your ability. A foamie in large surf can be powerful and unforgiving. Surf at a lifeguarded beach.
Rent the biggest, cheapest board available. Paddle for everything. Pop up wrong. Ride it anyway. The person on the shortboard is not having more fun than you. They just think they are.
78 — LEARN TO READ A SURF BREAK WITH A LOCAL WHO KNOWS IT
Category: Beach | Duration: 2 hours | Difficulty: 1/5
Not surfing. Watching. Where the peaks form. Where the rip runs. Where not to be when the set arrives. An hour of this makes you a better surfer than a month of paddling blind.
AIR
79 — DO YOUR FIRST TANDEM SKYDIVE AND IMMEDIATELY WANT TO DO THE COURSE
Category: Air | Duration: Half day | Difficulty: 3/5
Safety: Always jump with a fully licensed and insured tandem instructor through a BPA (or equivalent) registered drop zone.
The freefall takes two minutes. The decision to go back and do the full AFF course takes approximately four seconds. Budget accordingly. The instructor will not be surprised when you ask on the drive back.
80 — FLY A HANG GLIDER DUAL WITH A LICENSED PILOT OVER A MOUNTAIN
Category: Air | Duration: Half day | Difficulty: 2/5
Safety: Only fly with a fully licensed and insured tandem pilot through a registered school.
No engine. The thermal lifts you without noise. Below, the valley. Around you, only air. You are briefly a bird and briefly everything makes complete sense.
81 — PARAGLIDE A BIG CROSS-COUNTRY FLIGHT IN THERMIC CONDITIONS
Category: Air | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 5/5
Safety: XC paragliding requires a paragliding licence and significant experience reading conditions. Never fly beyond your current skill level. Always fly with appropriate insurance.
Launch, climb, find the next thermal, extend. Cross-country paragliding is chess at 3,000 feet with the sky as the board. You won't crack it on your first XC. You will be completely, helplessly hooked.
82 — SKYDIVE SOLO AND ACTUALLY WORK ON YOUR FREEFALL POSITION
Category: Air | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 5/5
Safety: Solo skydiving requires completion of an AFF course and ongoing currency at a registered drop zone. Always check equipment with your instructor.
Not just the jump. The position. The heading. The altitude awareness. Treating freefall as a discipline to refine rather than a thing that happens to you.
83 — DO A CLIFF-TO-SEA ABSEIL AND SWIM BACK TO SHORE
Category: Air | Duration: Half day | Difficulty: 3/5
Safety: Always abseil under the supervision of a qualified instructor. Assess the sea conditions and entry point carefully before committing.
Down the face. Hit the water. Swim the bay back. One continuous movement from cliff top to beach. The most dramatic commute ever invented.
WILD
84 — FORAGE FOR YOUR ENTIRE LUNCH IN ONE MORNING
Category: Wild | Duration: Half day | Difficulty: 2/5
Safety: Never forage alone without expert knowledge. Many edible plants have toxic lookalikes. Go with a qualified foraging guide.
Get up at dawn. Go out with someone who knows what they're doing. Come back with enough for a meal. Build a fire. Cook everything. Eat it outside while it's hot. It tastes like winning something.
85 — SPEND 12 HOURS IN THE WILDERNESS WITH MINIMAL KIT
Category: Wild | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 4/5
Safety: Minimalist wilderness days should only be attempted by people with solid outdoor experience and navigation skills. Always tell someone where you're going.
Take less than you think you need. Work out the rest as you go. Twelve hours of self-sufficiency teaches you more about yourself than a year of training with every gadget.
86 — SWIM A TARN, RUN A RIDGE, SWIM ANOTHER TARN
Category: Wild | Duration: Half day | Difficulty: 4/5
Safety: Cold water immersion at altitude. Always warm up and dry off after swimming before continuing to run in exposed conditions.
The Welsh or Scottish hills are full of these. Plan the loop on the map. Execute it on the ground. Two cold swims and a ridge between them. Everything earned, nothing wasted.
87 — CANYONING DESCENT WITH ABSEILS AND NATURAL SLIDES
Category: Wild | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 4/5
Safety: Always go with a qualified canyoning guide. Canyons can change rapidly with rainfall — check weather not just on the day but for the preceding 48 hours upstream.
Slot canyons, plunge pools, abseil drops into cold water, natural waterslides that should not exist. The kind of thing that looks insane in the photos and feels completely natural when you're in it.
88 — DO A GORGE WALK IN PROPER CONDITIONS WITH A GUIDE
Category: Wild | Duration: Half day | Difficulty: 3/5
Safety: Only gorge walk with a qualified guide. Never attempt in or after heavy rainfall — water levels can rise extremely rapidly.
Moving water, real commitment, a guide who's done this two hundred times and still finds it brilliant. You are not the most powerful thing in this gorge. That's the whole lesson. Learn it happily.
89 — NAVIGATE A FULL-DAY MOUNTAIN ROUTE USING ONLY MAP AND COMPASS
Category: Wild | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 3/5
Safety: Ensure you're proficient with map and compass before relying on them alone in the hills. Tell someone your route.
Study it the night before. Sleep on it. Go without the GPS. If you end up somewhere unexpected, that is the route now. Navigate out. The mountain is a better teacher than any app.
90 — NAP IN A FIELD AFTER A BIG DAY OUT — COMPLETELY WITHOUT SHAME
Category: Wild | Duration: 20 minutes | Difficulty: 1/5
You've done the miles. Find warm grass. Lie flat. Sleep for twenty minutes in open air. This is recovery. This is elite performance strategy. This is also just really nice. Nobody is judging you.
SOCIAL
91 — SET UP A SLACKLINE IN THE PARK AND WATCH STRANGERS FAIL AT IT
Category: Social | Duration: Half day | Difficulty: 1/5
One slack line, one park, an open invitation. Watch confident people fall off immediately. Watch someone who says 'I've never done this' walk it first attempt. This will happen. It always happens.
92 — HIRE PADDLEBOARDS FOR THE GROUP AND FALL OFF IMMEDIATELY
Category: Social | Duration: 2 hours | Difficulty: 1/5
Safety: Wear buoyancy aids in open water. Stay close together as a group.
Confidently stand up. Fall in. Stand up again. Fall in again. By the end one person is inexplicably brilliant at it and nobody knows why. You created a monster.
93 — PLAY ROUNDERS IN A PUBLIC PARK AND ADD STRANGERS AS THEY WALK PAST
Category: Social | Duration: Half day | Difficulty: 1/5
Set up the posts. Start playing. Wave in whoever passes. By the fourth innings you have fifteen people and a fiercely contested match. Perfect Saturday. Truly free. Nobody wants to leave.
94 — ORGANISE A SUNSET BEACH BONFIRE AND INVITE PEOPLE YOU BARELY KNOW
Category: Social | Duration: 1 evening | Difficulty: 1/5
Safety: Check local rules on beach fires and keep the fire a safe distance from dunes and dry vegetation. Always extinguish fully before leaving.
The fire does the work. The view does the work. You just start it. By midnight it's the best night of the summer and nobody planned a single part of it.
95 — ORGANISE A GROUP SUNRISE HIKE WITH BREAKFAST AT THE SUMMIT
Category: Social | Duration: Half day | Difficulty: 2/5
Get twelve people to agree to a 4am departure. Watch at least four of them nearly bail the night before. Feed everyone on a summit at 7am. Nobody says it wasn't worth it. Nobody ever does.
96 — RUN A TRAIL RELAY — SIX RUNNERS, SIX LEGS, ONE MOUNTAIN
Category: Social | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 3/5
One route. Split into legs. Hand over the baton. Suffer for each other. Win or lose together. The pub at the end has never tasted better and you will talk about this for longer than you think.
97 — HOST A POST-SURF BBQ ON THE BEACH WITH STRANGERS
Category: Social | Duration: 1 evening | Difficulty: 1/5
Set up the grill. Offer food to surfers coming in. By the time the sun goes down you know everyone's name and half their story. The best dinner parties have sand in them.
98 — TAKE SOMEONE WHO'S SCARED OF HEIGHTS UP THEIR FIRST MOUNTAIN
Category: Social | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 2/5
Manage the pace, manage the terrain, manage the doubt. Watch someone conquer something real. Your patience is the gift. Their face at the summit is worth every gentle encouragement on the way up.
99 — CYCLE WITH SOMEONE WHO'S NEVER RIDDEN MORE THAN 20 MILES
Category: Social | Duration: 1 day | Difficulty: 2/5
Take them somewhere epic. Set the pace completely around them. Watch 20 miles become 40 and their face when they realise what they just did. Better than any ride you'll do on your own. Always.
100 — MAKE IT BACK FOR NEXT SUMMER
Category: Social | Duration: All year | Difficulty: 1/5
Kit: All of them
Look after yourself. Train well, rest properly, go again. The list never ends. Your SunGods will be there for every single one — guaranteed for life. So are you. Now get outside.
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