The 2021 UTWT calendar has just been revealed and we are extremely excited to announce that Ultra-Trail® Snowdonia will join the Ultra-Trail® World Tour from 2021 and beyond. This announcement marks a significant development for the UK and Ireland ultrarunning scene and has been several years in the making. f With inauguration to the Ultra-Trail® […]
1 and 2 Day Recce Events to increase knowledge and confidence of the Dragon’s Back Race® and help you train with other runners and have fun!
Spartan will host 10k and Half-Marathon trail events at two of its most scenic venues; Glanusk Estate, Wales, and Marston Lodge, Midlands.
MEET MENNA EVANS: In a couple of weeks Menna will be flying to New Zealand, setting herself the challenge of running from one end to the other and also breaking the current record, no pressure then! Last week we caught with the self employed dog groomer from Llansadwrn in Carmarthenshire to find out a bit […]
GOWER COASTAL RACES – Race reviews 2019 We did the 23 mile and turned it into a 25 mile 🙂 the Vale Trail in April lulled us into a false sense of security on the navigation front – will be memorising the maps for the next one! After experiencing every kind of terrain possible we […]
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 […]
You’ll never be able to run properly again’ said the surgeon after I shattered my knee, broke my tibia, fibia, ligaments and cartilage after a sporting accident when I was 18 years old. Consistently doing what you need to do to succeed, with total focus and resolve, is incredibly difficult. And that’s why the ability […]
Last year I failed to complete this race. (Arc of Attrition – DNF 9th Feb 2018). I was gutted! I had trained hard for 6 months, doing big mileage weeks and I felt good. However the Arc is no normal race, not even a normal 100 miler. Mudcrew designed this race to be hard, really hard! […]