OWPG Best Guidebook award 2017
I’m back from the Outdoor Writers & Photographers Guild (OWPG) annual AGM weekend. To be fair I didn’t have to travel too far, as it was just up the road […]
Category Archives: trail running
Author running events
As part of the launch events for these running guidebooks, there are a couple of upcoming ‘run with the author’ dates for your diary. These two dates are both based […]
Chamonix Spring Trails
So when is the trail running season in Chamonix and the Alps? Now!!! Yesterday I posted a video I’d shot whilst running to Gorge d’Arveyron and Le Chapeau above Lavancher […]
Running from UTMB
With two finishes to the UTMB to date, 2016 was to be my third and final run of this iconic race. It did not happen for me last night, and […]
Trail running tails
Sometimes it’s not what you’ve run, but how you ran, or who you shared it with. When running with a friend, there’s always chat, and a slight edge of competition lurking […]
Tor des Geants 2015
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 […]
Tour de Helvellyn
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 […]
Lakes in a Day
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 […]
Traces des Ducs de Savoie
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 […]
Commercialism – running to escape it
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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