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Author Archives: Kingsley Jones

Trail running tails

April 6, 2016by Kingsley Jones 5 Comments

Sometimes it’s not what you’ve run, but how you ran, or who you shared it with.ย When running with a friend, there’s always chat, and a slight edge of competition lurking […]

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fell running, trail running

Tor des Geants 2015

November 29, 2015by Kingsley Jones 2 Comments

Where do you start with a blog about the Tor des Geants? The end seems as good a place as any. It’s marketed as the longest ultra trail in the […]

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Tor des Geants, Tor des Giants, trail running

Tour de Helvellyn

January 3, 2015by Kingsley Jones Leave a comment

A few minutes on the internet, and I came up with three answers about the distance; 38 miles, 40 miles and 42 miles. Looking for the elevation gain produced a […]

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fell running, Lake District, trail running

Lakes in a Day

October 17, 2014by Kingsley Jones Leave a comment

To live somewhere, yet to learn to see it in a totally new light, is something you can’t achieve every weekend. Last Saturday I ran the first edition of the […]

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Lake District, trail running

Traces des Ducs de Savoie

September 1, 2014by Kingsley Jones Leave a comment

I ran the TDS (Traces des Ducs de Savoie) race last year. It’s one of the five events that now form the UTMB race series, and is 119km long with […]

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trail running, UTMB

Commercialism – running to escape it

November 21, 2013by Kingsley Jones 6 Comments

I will not run the Marathon du Mont Blanc ever again. Back in 2009, it was my first proper mountain race, and I loved every minute (there were plenty of […]

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Chamonix, trail running

Complete UTMB quartet, or TDG?

September 21, 2013by Kingsley Jones 4 Comments

So the photo above explains the dilemma; whether to attempt to complete the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc quartet if races, by tackling the PTL (Petite Trotte ร  Lรฉon), or […]

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trail running, UTMB

TDS race 119km

September 3, 2013by Kingsley Jones Leave a comment

Last week I ran one of the UTMB Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc events, called the TDS, or more formally Sur les Traces des Ducs de Savoie (On the tracks […]

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Chamonix, trail running, UTMB

80km du Mont Blanc

June 30, 2013by Kingsley Jones Leave a comment

On Friday I ran the first ever edition of the 80km du Mont Blanc, a brand new trail race that I involved 6000m of ascent. This made it comparable to […]

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Chamonix, trail running

Winter trail training

January 18, 2013by Kingsley Jones 1 Comment

One of the joys of winter trail running is permanently wet feet, as amply illustrated by the photo above. Somewhere under all that mud are my nice (formerly) shiny new […]

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personal training, trail running

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