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Kosmos 3-in-1 (Where A Marathon Is The S…
Written by Stuart Mann - http://runningmann.co.za [MARATHON #180 / UNIQUE MARATHON #97 / 10 MARCH 2018] The Kosmos Marathon in Secunda is an easy 90-minute drive from Johannesburg – this is below the “stayover for...
Read moreCosta Blanca Trails 65km, Finestrat
Written by Tom Wright - http://life.tomwright.me.uk For ten years I have ritually travelled the AP7 from Altet airport to Denia and marvelled in awe at the strato-volcanic semblance of Puig Campana - Costa...
Read moreHardmoors 55 2018 Race Report
Written by James Campbell - https://jamescampbell78.wordpress.com Since Hardmoors 30, I’ve changed my approach to training fairly radically in order to first recover from injury and then rehabilitate and strengthen myself while still...
Read moreMy Tor
Written by Neil Bryant I have been running ultras for over 12 years now, and up until around two years ago, got a real kick from races. My races had over...
Read moreTHE KALAHARI AUGRABIES EXTREME MARATHON …
Race Report by Dion Leonard, winner of KAEM 2017 Photography by Hermien Burger Webb A few thoughts from my last race... In 2012 I bought my wife Lucja a book titled ‘World’s Toughest...
Read moreArc of Attrition - Eliot Weatherill
Written by Eliot Weatherill Photography - Zoe Salt The first thing that I should get out of the way here is that I am not a hugely experienced ultra runner in the...
Read moreTHAMES RING 250 – JUNE 2017
Written by Bob Wild - https://ultra-average.com A quick warning before you start reading this:This is going to be unpleasantly long, fairly rambling and very boring. It is not the latest blockbuster read...
Read moreGreat Glen Ultra Report
Written by John Kynaston - https://johnkynaston.com After the Hardmoors 160 at the end of April I have entered 3 more ultra-races for 2016 and all of them will be new races to...
Read moreBeacons Ultra, Wales | Force 12 Events
Written by Stephen Cousins - http://filmmyrun.com There was a time when I was an ultra virgin, and it really wasn’t all that long ago. Back in April 2014 I had just completed...
Read moreDorset CTS Ultra
Written by Nick Grahame Dorset Ultra was the third Ultra race I've entered, having got bitten by the bug earlier in the year. The biggest draw for shoe-horning this in at...
Read moreBadwater 135 – The Race
Written by Michelle Jane - https://dreamweaverconsulting.com (This is from memory, and given the length of challenge and sleep deprivation, is as I remember it… the crew may likely have a slightly different...
Read more2017 Lon Las Ultra
Written by Paul Ali - https://ultraavon.com After a dream race at the Liverpool Leeds Canal race (link here) there was only one way race results could go and this is a brief report...
Read moreJFK50 MILE 2017
Written by Doug Fernandez Earlier this year, I’d finally won my age group (AG) in Boston. Even though I’d run it 4 times, even setting my PR there, the AG win...
Read moreBrecon Beacons 10 Peaks Race Report
Written by John Kynaston - https://johnkynaston.com Saturday 10th September 2016 Ever since I came across this race last year I’ve been looking forward to taking part and it didn’t disappoint! Katrina and I were...
Read moreCotswold Way Century 2017 race report
Written by Marcin Krzysztofik - http://wolnybiegacz.pl/en Welcome to my blog after quite a while! Almost 2 months have passed since my last entry (http://wolnybiegacz.pl/en/kacr-2017-race-report/). In a nutshell, in August I was recovering from...
Read moreLakes in a Day Race Report
Written by John Kynaston - https://johnkynaston.com Saturday 8th October 2016 The ‘Lakes in a Day’ ultra was my fifth and final ultra of 2016 and I was really looking forward to it. When I...
Read moreLeadville 2017: Shuffle and Whine (A Mel…
Written by Katrin Silva - http://runkat.com Cast of characters Our Fearless Heroine:Katrin, ultra runner in pursuit of another belt buckle at the end of the rainbow, otherwise known as the 100-mile Leadville trail...
Read moreUltra Tour du Léman (UTL) 2017 race revi…
Written by Eric Grant - http://www.lhtrailrunning.com The Ultra Tour of Léman holds a special place in my heart. First of all, there’s the fact of going around a lake that I’ve called...
Read moreV3K Ultra Race Report
Written by Marcin Krzysztofik - http://wolnybiegacz.pl V3K (Vegan 3000 Ultra) is a mountain ultramarathon that I heard of for the first time about 2 years ago. Of course I got really keen to…
Taming the Beast: Javelina 100, 2017
Written by Katrin Silva - http://runkat.com I registered for the 2017 Javelina 100 in late September, after two difficult 100-mile finishes earlier in the summer. Bryce and Leadville had gone well until…
Javelina Jundred 2017 – Chasing The Moon
Written by Avery Frantz - https://averyfunadventure.wordpress.com Spirits are up early in the race. This is a very long report that combines the months leading up to the race and the race itself, if…
Kierat 2017 race report
Written by Marcin Krzysztofik - http://wolnybiegacz.pl/en International Extreme Walking Marathon Kierat (http://maratonkierat.pl/indexeng.html) is an event that has been on my mind for years. However, there were always adverse circumstances preventing me to…
Highland Fling Race Report
Written by John Kynaston - https://johnkynaston.com I really enjoy the ultra races that start early which is just as well as the Highland Fling starts at 6am. I was up just before…
TOOTING 24H TRACK RACE – 2017
Written by Luke Latimer - https://jurarunner.wordpress.com It turns out that just as there are different kinds of pain, there are different kinds of listening too. There’s a silly joke that somehow managed to…
Autumn 100 2017 – the final of the Centurion 4 x 100 mile Grandslam – and not quite the end…
Written by Phil Bradburn - https://untrainingultrarunner.com I was a mixture of nervous and excited ahead of Autumn 100. I did this race last year, and it is what inspired me to aim…
North Downs Way 100 2017 – NDW Superbitch is a “Nightmare Dressed like a DayDream”
Written by Phil Bradburn - https://untrainingultrarunner.com The training went well in the run up to North Downs 100 (aside from a terrible week or so which I put down to training while…
South Downs Way 100 2017 – 1 Day, 1 Hour, 1 minute, 1 Second :-)
Written by Phil Bradburn - https://untrainingultrarunner.com It has taken me a long time to write this blog post. About a week! It is hard to know the reason for that, but in…
