Will Roberts

@willbaldlygo.bsky.social

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AI Skills Tutor #HumanInTheLoop 💻 | Former #ultrarunning + #adventure content creator | Here for #SpineRace and #BM100 stuff.

Screenshot from Dead Cow Gully Backyard Ultra Facebook page. 2 runners chat in the dark with a few spectators around them. The caption reads: LAST ONE STANDING Phil Gore with 119 Loops (WR) Sam Harvey with the 118 Loop ASSIST
A screenshot of a Facebook post which has a photo of two runners in the dark at the start line of the Dead Cow Gully backyard ultra, and the following text: LOOP 116 Sam Harvey and Phil Gore take off on another night loop. When they return, they will equal the current WORLD RECORD.
Screenshot of a post from the Dead Cow Gully Backyard Ultra Facebook account. It shows 2 runners standing at a start line and reads: WELCOME TO THE 5TH NIGHT • •• LOOP 108 Sam Harvey and Phil Gore go into a 5th Night at the Gully. Phil is doing quick 40 minute loops. Sam is coming in around the 50 minute mark. They will be alone in blackness for the entire loop until Phil passes Sam on the turn around. It must be a surreal feeling for them both. About 270 runners on the Saturday morning, the course clogged with runners unable to pass in sections. Now they are all alone on the Wednesday night. The course is exactly the same, but this is a DIFFERENT EVENT NOW. THE WORLD IS WATCHING LOOP BY LOOP.
Two runners, strangers 24hrs ago, embrace at the finish line of the 108 mile Montane Summer Challenger South
A blow up mattress, sleeping bag and other kit strewn on the floor, behind the registration desks at Edale Village Hall #SpineRace
A paper flyer stuck to a pedestrian crossing. It says: ‘Come to Weston Park bandstand on Friday the 25th of July at 2:45pm to see two people attempt to eat a whole pack of dry/salted rice cakes each in under 30 minutes’
A group of ducklings scampering around beside a small lake in Elsecar, UK, before they and their mother swim off through the reeds.
A singularly terrible selfie. In it I’m wearing a black t-shirt with a glittery, silver spider up near my left shoulder, inspired by the brooch Lady Hale wore whilst giving Boris Johnson a bollocking in court in Sept 2019.
A younger, less dad-bodded version of me cooling off under a waterfall in the Peruvian jungle
A video clip of me and photographer Mikkel Beisner marching through the Peruvian jungle in June 2016. I was filming a race for the first time. I was underprepared, out of shape, and laughing in the face of feeling exhausted and overwhelmed! 🤣
A statement from Ultra X announcing free race entry at uk races for under 23s
A linocut print and carved printing block based on an image of an Arctic cabin under the northern lights.
Screenshot of a Facebook post by Laz Lake: ‘the best thing about the backyard ultra; • whenever you see a picture of someone who has pushed the boundary a little further there are two people in the picture. in the backyard no one can break records alone. in all sports we are continually pushing back the limits of human potential. we routinely prove the impossible to be possible. enter Jan Vandekerckhove and tukasz Wrobel; a belgian and a pole. they have passed the backyard world record some time ago and appear headed to break the barrier of 5 days of running (500 miles) it has been only the two of them for nearly two and a half days. this is what true competition looks like.... alone we can accomplish amazing things. together we can accomplish anything.’
A wildlife ranger in Kenya. They stand looking away from you with their left hand held up to shield their eyes from the glare as they look out over the savannah at sunrise
The cover of Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation by George Musser. The strap line reads ‘Why Physicists are Studying Human Consciousness and AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe’
A woman stands among tall trees on a foggy day. She’s looking up at a stone tower that looms over her. The tower is Hoober Stand, near Wentworth, UK
Runners approaching the camera as the sub rises over the mountains directly behind them. In the Namib Desert 2019
Linocut print of the view through an airplane window showing mountains and whispy clouds
A matcha latte
A poorly executed linocut print of a small boat on a Scottish loch in front of a large rugged hillside. Next to the print is the Lino block.
Linocut print of a tranquil Scottish loch
My first attempt at recreating one of my photos as a linocut print. A small boat crosses a Scottish loch in front of a row of tall rugged hills.
A 44 year old person proudly sporting their brand new crocs on a train platform.
A photo of a monitor showing the PS4 game No Man’s Sky. My character stands in the foreground just left of centre looking out at the viewer. The right of the photos is taken up by a small, iridescent, multicoloured, ovoid spaceship.
Screenshot from the PS4 version of the game No Man’s Sky. It shows a character with a glowing, pyramid shaped head standing in front of a squid shaped space ship.
Posts from Keith Dunn about the Barkley Marathons: 58:08 into the race if runners have hit Book 1 they are on pace to complete 100 miles. #BM100 Spoiler alert: most runners have not hit Book 1 yet. #BM100
Screenshot of a Facebook post from The Spine Race saying: As we await our next finishers here in Kirk Yetholm, a quick note on the scale of Clare Bannwarth's winning performance in the Montane Winter Spine Race. Below you'll find a snapshot of our tracking system. As you can see, Claire put most of Northumberland National Park between herself and her rivals. Just wow. #spinerace FINISH
A passage of text with a highlighted quote saying: 'Next morning I met Craig Wilson and Phil Pierce. Phil was rushing around trying to calibrate his GPS - a magical device that would tell him where he was, where the next control was, how fast he was going (a bit too depressing on the Barkley), how high he was and generally supply any other navigational information you could dream up.'
A sign reading ‘DONOR MEAT, CHIPS & 330ml DRINK £8.00’
A screenshot of a tweet: ‘The #bm100 2024 tab has been opened! A reminder to anyone not familiar with my spreadsheet: It's NOT a primary source, I'm just collecting all the online information in one place. There is ALWAYS misinformation on there, even I can't unbarkley the Barkley’
2400 year old tombs carved out of a rocky cliff on a wooded hillside, in the warm late afternoon light of a sunny day in Dalyan, Turkey.
Office buildings in Sheffield reflected in the windows of another large office building. The reflected image is slightly distorted.
A few ‘pin mold’ fungi among moss on a tree stump.