A friend had signed up for the Forest and Moors event in North Yorkshire, organised by Scarborough and Rydale Mountain Rescue. He’d done the Ravenscar half earlier in the year and spoke very highly of the simplicity of the events. …
Whitworth Trail Marathon
The Whitworth Trail Marathon appealed to me because it was a trail, a marathon or something like that and in a place that I hadn’t run before. It was underwritten by Team OA events who always put on top notch …
Dovedale Dipper
After chatting to the lovely Caroline at the St Begas Ultra back in May she’d mentioned an event called the ‘Dovedale Dipper’ in Dovedale, Derbyshire. I quite fancied it, being a (non) LDWA Challenge event it was 27ish miles …
Midnight Marathon
Cue a trip to London for a course that got cancelled a few days before. But I’ve booked everything I squealed. I can’t afford to loose money. Hell I am going anyway and anyway I had booked a run on …
London Marathon
Cue 18 months ago; I qualified for a ‘club championship’ entry place in London. Even back then I wasn’t sure if I wanted to enter it or not but hell it was a guaranteed entry in one of the most …
White Peak Marathon
I Have run a marathon. Okay, so it’s been done before. But not by me – Cliff Temple
So its Saturday and its time for my first ever 26.2 – a marathon, that distance that is supposed to be the …