The Braveheart Triathlon is exactly that. With an open water swim of over a mile, more than 50 miles on the bike and a run up and down Ben Nevis, this is not an event for the fainthearted. In this year's race, Dougie Vipond joins over 100 competitors for a day he'll remember for ever.

Scotland's best-known outdoors man, Cameron McNeish, undertakes a 150-mile journey through some of the least visited parts of our country from the southern end of Sutherland to the northern tip of the Orkney Islands.