The life of uncomplicated long distance running.
The Wilmot Wander is a 32-mile route around Derby. Although not particularly hilly its a great event to end January with or start the year with – whichever way you want to look at it, and you are guaranteed mud,
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It’s cross country time – well only the one for me because my excuse has been ultra running having not been able to make any of the other South Yorkshire Cross Countries. Given the fourth and final one of the
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The Hardwolds 80 captured my attention many a months ago. I cant explain why some events grab me by the feet and lure me towards them, inviting me to part with my well earned cash, yet some events like running
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This was an event I’d always wanted to have a go at – being local and in the dark it had a different appeal and the Beyond Marathon guys always put on good well respected events and look after their
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A mountain marathon? What’s that? 26.2 miles in the mountains? Well no, if you’ve not heard of mountain marathons then they are exactly un- that. With varied distances, and varied ‘courses’ they are a complicated affair which I won’t go
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Its good to mix it up occasionally and do something different, and I do miss the ‘team spirit’ of not being able to participate in club events and social runs and the like. So when I was invited to join
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The Whitworth Trail Marathon appealed to me because it was a trail, a marathon or something like that and in a place that I hadn’t run before. It was underwritten by Team OA events who always put on top notch
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After chatting to the lovely Caroline at the St Begas Ultra back in May she’d mentioned an event called the ‘Dovedale Dipper’ in Dovedale, Derbyshire. I quite fancied it, being a (non) LDWA Challenge event it was 27ish miles or 14ish
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Interest in the Dronfield Relays emerged after speaking to running club social secretary Neal after a Power Yoga session one Thursday, its a Sunday, its two weeks after my 100 miler so I should be just about legful enough to
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Rewind to February 2018 when I stood caked in mud at the finish line of the 100 km Tarawera Ultra-marathon in New Zealand. Someone walks up to me and asks me where I am from. ‘The UK’ I say half
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I wouldn’t normally do this sort of thing; a road race, a road race, a road race you hear me say? A half marathon? A half marathon? A half marathon you hear me say? A flat half marathon? A flat
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Inspired by two running friends’ photos on Facebook (Jen Scotney and Martin Hookway) who ran across the Lakes taking in the ‘Coast to Coast’ route as part of Jen’s epic ‘Northern Transverse’ reccie for the race (Second Female I may
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