Centurion Running is a very special company. If you can call it company. Essentially that’s what it is, but what they have achieved in terms of a community is really quite special. Anyone lucky enough to have participated at one of their races will vouch for the genuinely incredible sense of camaraderie and team spirit… Read More Chiltern Wonderland -21st September 2016
There was no way I was going to miss this race. The first from Andy Nuttall and his Ultra magazine. It also just happened to be along much of the Test Way, which is a trail I run regularly whilst visiting my mum and stepdad near Andover in Hampshire. Despite having launched the event only… Read More The Hangman Ultra – 20/08/16
I won a race. I won a race. Holy shit. I won a race. It’s not that I didn’t have high hopes for my running this year. I did. Ever since I started running ultras in 2013 I have wondered if I couldn’t be doing better than my front 3rd to mid-pack finishes suggest. I… Read More The Grim Reaper Ultra – 29/07/16
What could be simpler than putting one foot in front of the other on flat tarmac for 26.2 miles? Okay, there’s stuff like the weather playing up and the chance that you’ll hit the wall if you don’t get your training or your nutrition/gel strategy right on the day, but barring that marathons are pretty… Read More Berlin Marathon – 27th September 2015
“One hundred miles is not that far”. At least that’s what ultra-running legend, Karl Meltzer, would have us believe. But I wasn’t going to take his word for it. So on the 8th of August, having previously run a maximum of sixty six miles, I set out on the North Downs Way to find out… Read More The North Downs Way 100 – 8th August 2015
Ramblings of a trail, marathon and ultra runner 