OCC Orsieries – Champex – Chamonix 25th August 2016 55km – 3,500 metres ascent Tugging the borrowed hotel blanket over me as I attempted to get comfortable on the cold, concrete floor – I wondered, not for the first time, what actually possessed me to enter and run mountain races? Here I was, having caught…
22nd May 2016 White Star Running Ox Marathon It’s been two years since I’ve run a marathon. The last was towing the line at the gloriously sunny London Marathon in 2014. Today, as I was kindly given a lift by Jo and Sarah from Westbourne Running Club, the weather didn’t look as promising! I was…
Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc 28th – 30th August 2015 170km – 10,000 metres ascent UTMB week in Chamonix is essentially a vision of heaven for trail runners. Surrounded by epic scenery, fantastic weather, an expo with every running item, shoe or gadget you could think of (even a stand personalising UTMB buffs!), elite runners…
26th June 2015 Mont Blanc Marathon 80km 82 km, ascent between 5628m – 7735m, highest point 2645m When I first shared this race profile, a comment I received was, “don’t worry, it only looks like that because they have squeezed it on to one page. It won’t be that steep”. I can tell you now…the…
16th May 2015 Farnham – Knockholt Pound, via the North Downs Way 50ish miles – 1700m elevation 13 hour cut off When I finished the NDW 50 last year, I was so physically and mentally exhausted that I didn’t do another race for 10 months. The goal for the 2015 edition then was to finish…
11th April 2015 Charmouth – Portland – Weymouth 40ish miles This is almost my home race, finishing about a mile from where I currently live, so I was excited to finally have it down in the diary. It is a beast of a race, 82 miles over the pretty unforgiving South West Coastal Path with…
17th May 2014 Farnham – Knockholt Pound, via the North Downs Way 50.8 miles – 1700m elevation 13hr30min cut off Saturday was a hot day. Read any blog or race report from the 2014 NDW 50 and you will find that all mention the heat in some way. In fact it only reached 23c on…
Here’s the answer to one of those questions that (might of) bugged you when you were little. What does it look like on the heel of the Italian boot? The area is called the Gargano Peninsular in Puglia and it is a fantastic place to run. Earlier in the year I attended a promotional week…
13th April 2014 Greenwich Park – The Mall Race report by Kelly You either love it or hate it. I know many people list ‘finishing the London Marathon’ at the top of their race bucket list, yet others state it would be their worst nightmare. Well, despite it clearly not being a trail race, I…
10-11th August 2013 Farnham, Surrey – Wye, Kent via the North Downs Way 102.7 miles, approx 3025m elevation Stats, kit and photo gallery below The sun had just set and a strong red hue settled in the sky. There were no runners around us and just for a moment we turned off our headtorches to…
