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Highland Fling Ultra Marathon race report: Cramp Management!
Every race you do you should learn from to improve for the next race on the calendar. Most times we find lots of things that went wrong and we want to do better. Less often do we find things in a race where we just have to say: I’ll do that again! Pacing and pace...
Race Report: Strathpuffer 24
The Strathpuffer 24 hour mountain bike race takes place in mid January in the North of Scotland which means that there is likely to be winter weather such as snow, wind, rain and freezing temperatures. There is definitely going to be a lot of darkness. If you...
Chasing Time: Jedburgh 3 Peaks Ultra Race Report – 38 miles (60 km)
2nd attempt at putting this race report together as I appear to have lost or not saved the first draft, so fingers crossed I don’t do the same again. I have been in a lull in terms of writing my blog and my race reports but a couple of comments from fellow competitors...
Guest Blog: Simon Nicholls’ Ironman Sweden 2014 Race Report
Simon Nicholls joined my group of athletes towards the end of 2013 with a view of completing his first Ironman race in Kalmar, Sweden in the summer of 2014. His strength was clearly going to be the bike so we were going to use this to deliver him to a strong marathon...
Race Report: Transvulcania 2014
In 2012 I saw a video of the Transvulcania race for the first time and immediately said: I have to do that, it looked absolutely stunning. In 2013 there was a bit of a buzz going round a number of Scottish Ultra runners about a group of us heading out to La Palma in...
Race Report: Endurance Life CTS Northumberland Ultra 2014 – First Age Group win
Turning forty has its advantages. On Saturday I ran the Northumberland Coastal Ultra which is part of the Endurance Life Coastal Trail Series. I won my Age group – the MV40 category. Everyone ahead of me – 11 of them – was younger I am still somewhat surprised that...