Clocking two 50km PBs at the Race to the Stones 2018
When you’re standing in a field at 7.30am, the sun already burning a hole in the back of your t-shirt, staring down the barrel…
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Liquid Fuel: An alternative breakfast for runners on ultra and marathon race days
When you’re running marathons and ultra marathons it can often mean waking up at the crack of dawn for early morning race starts. When…
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Race to the Stones Kit: What do you need to run a multi-day ultra?
First time running a multi-day stage ultra marathon and wondering what kit you need to take? Here’s a fly by of the running essentials…
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How to run downhill: Tips from ultra runners Tom Evans and Hayden Hawks
“Races are won on the ups and lost on the downs.” Even if the only person you’re racing is you, it’s important to get…
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9 Things I Learned Running the Race to the Stones
I first ran the Dixons Carphone Race to the Stones back in 2014, went back for more in 2017 and this year I’m hitting the Ridgeway…
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Last-minute Race to the Stones tips
The Dixons Carphone Race to the Stones is almost upon us again and with less than a week to go a few friends doing…
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Podding through pain at the Race to the Stones
When you embark on 100km run there’s one thing you can guarantee, at some point it’s going to get hurty. As you slog your…
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Shooting for a 5k PB at the Simply Health Great Team Relay
Of all the personal bests I’m chasing in my 2018 Year of the PBs, the 5km is perhaps the one intimidates me most. To run a 17:37 requires…
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Race to the Stones: To run for fun or race the Ridgeway?
In just over a week I’ll run my third Dixons Carphone Race to the Stones. In the build up to the race I’ve wrestled with a…
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Where dreams go to die
A lot has been written about the Barkley Marathons, a batshit crazy ultra in Tennessee that sees runners attempt to complete five loops of…
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