2018 WTF 100miler Ultra #12 Saturday, 22 September 2018 TL;DR Started with no idea and a plan, everything went to shit from there… Longer version Having already run the WTF 50 mile (82km) edition twice, I decided it was time to give the 100 mile (“miler”) event a try. I wanted to attempt the distance […]
Tag: trail
War and Peace
2018 Runningworks Lark Hill 50km Ultra Marathon Ultra #9 Saturday, 03 March 2018 To understand my place in this year’s Lark Hill 50km, we need to re-visit the 2017 event (for which I didn’t write a report, sorry). First, a little about the event. Just behind the Lark Hill Sporting Complex in Port Kennedy, south […]
run into the darkness
2017 Six Inch Trail Marathon Marathon #19 Sunday, 17 December 2017 People had been speculating about the weather for a couple of weeks before this edition of the 6 Inch Trail Marathon. Normally, it’s hot and dry at this time of year but the BOM had been forecasting showers then rain and storms later in […]
Only quitters quit
2016 Six Inch Trail Marathon Marathon #17 Sunday, 18 December 2016 I don’t know exactly what it was about this year’s event but there seemed to be less intensity or excitement in the build up to the day. In previous years, runners have been training hard for this event, it’s the culmination of a running-year. […]
Damn the torpedoes!
Waterous Trail on Foot WTF 50mile 2016 Ultra #5 Sunday 24 September 2016 One year ago, I completed this event and swore (and cursed) that’d never do it again. A year later, I’m on the starting line in the dawn light preparing to do it for the second time. The 2015 event was tough; I […]
The last gasp.
Endurancelife CTS Exmoor Marathon #9 Saturday 11 April 2015 This will probably be my last Endurancelife CTS event… for now. We’re heading back to Australia on Monday 04 May and there just isn’t time to squeeze in CTS Pembrokeshire on the Saturday before departing. The CTS events have been a real eye-opener for me; they’re […]
Half empty? Half full?
Endurancelife CTS Sussex Half Marathon Saturday 21 March 2015 Although I’d been running for almost two weeks following about four weeks of rest “forced” on me by an injury sustained during the CTS South Devon marathon, I was still not at 100% strength or fitness. I’d run a half marathon distance on the flat Thames […]
Bouncing back?
Following my first ever marathon DNF at CTS South Devon due to a torn calf, I went on the hunt for a physiotherapist who could put me back together in time for CTS Northumberland in just three weeks time. The good folk at Runner’s Retreat in Marlow came to my aid (again) and suggested Drummond […]
Play another day…
Endurancelife CTS South Devon Marathon #9 (DNF #1) Saturday 07 February 2015 Time had flown by since the shoe-destroying trail marathon in Anglesey. The Altras were only a couple of months old and had only completed 440km so I sent emails to the company in the US and their distributor in the UK. They said […]
WTF is sleet?
Endurancelife CTS Anglesey Marathon #8 Saturday 17 January 2015 I’ve had a pretty good recovery in the nearly four weeks since the last marathon; plenty of time to warm up and get over my Portsmouth hypothermia. Xmas and New Year were quiet but I haven’t done a lot of training as Tracy has been having […]