Run 202020 pictures: Running the South West Coastal Path
Photographs ©Frank Wainwright. Taken from Cornwall, Devon and Dorset running adventures, October 2020.
Run 202020: Why Daniel Jones took the bus home to a start a Cornish Coastal Challenge in a car park
Run 202020, Race 16. The Atlantic Coast Challenge 40 Miler was a challenge and not a race so of course there was no winner. So the first place finisher was Daniel Jones, a local local, and an ultra runner who has plenty of experience of the South West Coastal Path. After the not race, Frank…
Run202020: Taking the Strain
A grade 2 calf strain (aka a calf tear) is a serious setback in any athlete. Fortunately, it is also a well known one that responds well to what they call conservative treatment. That means surgery intervention and advanced science treatments such as stem cell are not high on the agenda however keen you are…
Run202020: What virtually happened this summer
My 'lovestation 'for the Lockdown Frolic In Karen Maitland’s novel, The Company of Liars, a deceitful band of hawkers, storytellers, artists performers, rune-readers, healers and magicians make their way from village to village as an incomprehensible pestilence causes townsfolk to lock themselves away in fear and survival becomes the common denominator to all. The central…
Inspiration Interview: The Love of Running is Back with Brendan
With so many endurance events in jeopardy, just running for the joy of being out and exercising is back on trend. This interview from 8th March is with one of the most positive thinkers in the world of running, about how he has rediscovered that simple joy and used it to look ahead, past the…
Meeting Felipe Massa at The Nag’s Head
On Monday, Frank Wainwright met the ROKiT team and some of the glitterati of motorsport at the classic London pub, The Nag’s Head, Covent Garden Got to be honest with you, until Monday I didn’t have a fantasy business conglomerate. But I have one now. I mean they just put together an event where I’ve…
Inspiration Interview: Winning by a neck
The astonishing story of Richard Andrews, the neck breathing ultrarunner. An affectionate humiliation in the world of running comes to many of us when a costumed runner, typically a rhino – comes past you on the finishing straight. An affect that the rhino runners have is to make you aware of their difference, their handicap.…
Run202020: January and February, first four races in review
So, the first two months of the year have passed and with it my first four races. How’s it going? How is the book progressing? January Run202020 started with a bang under the fireworks at Zurich Neujahr’s Marathon which was certainly an exciting start. The fireworks overhead and a rock music adrenaline fuelled blast into…
Run202020: Mongolia Postponed, Viva Italia
Well they say that endurance running is all about adapting the plan! The postponement of Race 5 in the #Run202020 series, the Mongol 100, to 2021 has been embraced by me as part of the story. #Run202020 is about travel, places and people as much as running, and the travel business is beset with potential…
Getting the Roll Balling
The trip ahead of me was immense. Manavgat Ultra beckoned, a 41-miles run with an upwards trajectory of 9000 feet, scrambling up Mt Hatmalar up over loose brambly boulders and scree, with freezing wind and snow flurrying down from the icy cap. Then, after Manavgat, I had a further mission to run across snowbound tracks…