UTMB finisher!
It’s a few days since I crossed the finish line of the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc, and my mind is still a blur of emotions about it. The basic […]
Category Archives: trail running
Follow UTMB live!
Tomorrow at 18:30, I start running the UTMB, the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc! The day has finally come, after three years of building up to it, and gaining enough […]
Countdown to UTMB
It’s now only 10 days until the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc, the 165km trail race around Mont Blanc, with 9500m vertical ascent! I’m starting to get a bit nervous, […]
Hoka’s ‘Time to Fly’
I’m not one to often rave about kit, but once in a blue moon, something is developed that is so ground breaking and innovative that it should be shared. The […]
Zermatt Marathon 2011
Yesterday I managed to sneak off after a week of guiding, to run the Zermatt mountain marathon. I finished in 98th place in 5 hours 26 minutes, and before anyone […]
Mont Blanc Marathon 2011
This weekend saw the hottest days of the year in Chamonix, with the temperatures soaring to 35C in the valley. The heat neatly coincided with the Mont Blanc Marathon weekend, […]
TMB in Autumn snow
This is a photo taken yesterday by Sarah of me with Maximus, running up to the Col du Bonhomme, one of the high passes on the Tour du Mont Blanc. […]
Survived the UTMB CCC race!
This year the North Face Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc CCC race from Courmayeur to Champex and Chamonix was perfect conditions for fish and Brits – wet and cold! It […]
Final days before the CCC
As regular readers of this blog, will now be bored of hearing, I’m running the North Face Ultra-Trail du Mont Blanc race from Courmayeur to Chamonix. The course is nearly […]
Summer trail running
It’s been a very busy summer out in the Alps, hence the lack of blog posts. Every day that I haven’t been guiding has been spent training for the North […]
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