We're Sam & Stuart Douglas, we're based in Northamptonshire where we live with our two rescue dogs, Eddie and Spiros. We both have a love for adventure and the outdoors and love challenging ourselves to see what we are capable of.
I (Stuart) am a former Royal Navy Frogman and this job gave me my love of fitness and adventure, I have climbed in the Himalayas, dived to deep ocean depths, gone through SF selection and jumped out of perfectly serviceable aircraft!
Sam is a former civil servant and only really started running when we both entered the World Police & Fire Games in 2015, although she's always had a love for the outdoors, volunteering planting cotton plants in the Peak District and dry stone walling in Wales. Sam is now an avid runner and is currently on day 1716 or running at least a mile a day!
Together we have completed the Winter 'Fan Dance' three times ,15 miles across Pen Y Fan, each time carrying a 42lb pack! We've done the National Three Peaks Challenge, run the Cambridge Half Marathon a few times (Sam completed the London Marathon this year, after 11 years of unsuccessful applications) had canoe camping adventures with the dogs and summitted Kilimanjaro, but our biggest achioevement to date was in 2025 when we ran the length of Iceland from North to South, 209 miles in ten days with one day off!
We loved it so much, we're going back to do it again in 2027!
What are we planning next? Apart from the Iceland trip, we're running a 100km ultramarathon in Swedish Lapland in January next year.
We're proud to be ambassadors for the Xpo and would love to chat to as many of you as possible at the show. The outdoors is for everyone, it doesn't have to be a huge adventure, just getting outside is so good for our health and wellbeing.