I’m not sure how it all came about but somehow I entered the Run Walk Crawl Vale Coastal Ultra. Probably down to of my ‘I wonder if ‘ moments, which is usually the case. Up until that moment, the furthest I had run was a ‘Long Half’ at 22.5km but I accepted the challenge and […]
A triathlon coach from Cardiff has become the first Welshman to complete the world’s toughest, coldest, windiest ultra-distance race by finishing joint fifth at the 6633 Arctic Ultra in Canada. Mark Whittle was running the non-stop, 380-mile self-supported foot race across the Arctic Circle for the first time and came home in exactly the same […]
This year sees the 40th Anniversary of Man v Horse. The event started in 1980 when local landlord Gordon Green overheard a discussion between two men in his pub, the Neuadd Arms. One man suggested that over a significant distance across country, man was equal to any horse. Green decided that the challenge should be […]