Not a sprint: endurance experts on how to make it through lockdown

Marathon runner Eddie Izzard, solo sailor Pip Hare and explorer Levison Wood explain what they have learned about enduring the seemingly unendurable

It just goes on and on, doesn't it? Despite the millions of vaccinations, and Boris Johnson's roadmap" for easing the lockdown, this pandemic is feeling increasingly like an endurance test - a marathon, followed by another marathon, followed by another. Or trudging for miles and miles across the desert for day after day. Or sailing alone around the world, battling storms and loneliness. How do you keep going? There are people who know a thing or two about that - keeping going, endurance, deserts and storms. Perhaps they might even have some advice.