Trail running tails
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]