Sport

I spent an entire Saturday walking up and down somebody’s driveway, and covered more than seventeen kilometres doing it. Goodwood is loud, dusty, crowded and physically punishing, and it is still one of the most accessible major events I attend, because it gives you enough ways to make the day your own. The platforms were full, Future Lab defeated me, and none of that mattered by the time I found the one car I had come to see.

22 min read • Micro-case studies included

I very nearly turned round at Cambridge station, unable to find the shuttle and wondering whether the whole day was a mistake. What changed my mind wasn’t an aircraft at all, but an A-Team van, a scientist holding thousand-year-old ice, and a running commentary that quietly told me exactly where to look. At Duxford the flying is extraordinary, but it’s the people who make you want to come back.

16 min read • Micro-case studies included

Vast, loud and brilliantly overwhelming. From the nerves at my first accessible viewing platform to tracing wood veneer with a Bentley craftsman, twice now, and worth every step.

8 min read • Accessibility checklist included

Two years from “couldn’t manage a parkrun” to a World Major, run without a guide, conquered in the head long before the road, with a brass band in a tunnel along the way.

9 min read • What I’d do differently