The sub-two-hour marathon – what do we know about the great British record holder behind it? In the time it took Eliud Kipchoge to prove that No Human is Limited, plastic pollution was pushing for a new record 2000 metric tons of waste dumped into the ocean in less than 2 hours. That’s 8 million…
Two weekends, two contrasting endurance races… 06/02/19 Chester has been on my marathon wish list for a while, a big-small road marathon, very popular amongst runners. I entered impetuously after The Great Welsh Marathon in Spring had left me with unfinished business in terms of getting a time. At the Great Welsh I set my…
Unconventionally, my second 100-mile race was one that many recommend for their first. Equally, entering a 100-mile race two weeks before is not in the standard learn-Ultra rule book. But two weeks out I suddenly had the weekend free and scanned the Internet for a race. I chose the full Robin Hood, rather than say…
I like social running. Ultras and trail running certainly have a camaraderie vibe that is less often seen in road running. Perhaps that is because times have less meaning on the trail or trail runners come out for the countryside as much as the exercise? Anyhow, a fun run on my horizon in October is…
Every now and then, club running turns up a classic occasion, and that was the case 10 days ago when a gang of unlikely dynamos turned out for Chippenham Harriers for the Road League 5 x 10K race at the Two Tunnels. We could not have been less heralded at the outset nor more proud…
August 2019 I have just finished a tour of some of the best places in live in Europe. I’d like to call it an EU tour, but though I travelled seamlessly through it, I did go via Switzerland. Still, we started and finished in the EU. Setting out as a group of four, each leg…
The Beacon’s Way… tldr – I have just completed my first 100 mile+ ultra, the self-navigating and trail and off-trail route through the Brecon Beacons and Black Mountains, with 22,000ft of elevation. I finished in 37hrs and 15 minutes in 16th place in a race which some 66% did not finish and am now the…