Pursuit of the Impossible
Tag: 100 miler
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Now my racing season is over, I’ve had time to look back and reflect. To look at the positives and the negatives and the lessons I’ve learned. I arrived at the start line of my first race of the 2025 season, the Chester 100 Mile Ultra fresh and with ambitions high after a solid block…
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There’s always a moment in every ultramarathon I run, Beacons Way 100 Mile, Ultra Scotland, Ultra Trail Snowdonia, The Race Across Scotland, when the sun drops behind the mountains, and the world in front of me reduces to the small globe of my headlamp and the deafening silence with nothing but the sound of my…
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I still remember the moment I passed the marathon mark in my first 100 mile ultra. My watch clocked over at 42.2km, and for a split second I felt that familiar satisfaction of finishing a marathon. Then reality hit me, I still had another 120km to go. The legs were fine, but the voice inside…
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I arrived Friday at lunchtime, checked into my hotel, and dropped off my bags. After helping the GB Ultras team set up the race HQ, I grabbed a pizza, then returned to my room to organise my race kit and drop bags. Registration started at 5:30pm, so I picked up my race number, caught up…
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Running an ultramarathon isn’t just a longer version of a marathon, it’s a completely different challenge. Distances of 50K, 100K, 100 miles, or even multi-day stage races push your body, mind, and gear to their limits. Having the right equipment isn’t optional; it’s a survival strategy; it’s the difference between failure and success. In this…
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That’s race 3 out of 4 races completed for the GB Ultras 2025 100-mile Grand Slam series. The Race Across Bannau Brycheiniog, the Brecon Beacons National Park! The Beacons Way 100 mile ultra is just over 100 miles starting from the ruins of Abergavenny Castle and following the Beacons Way National Trail all the way…
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This past weekend I revisited the stunning Southern Upland Way in Scotland as I took on the Ultra Scotland 100 miler, organised by GB Ultras. After running the whole of the Southern Upland Way from coast to coast in 2024, I was looking forward to revisiting sections I ran in the pitch-black last time, in…
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I have now added the Snowdon Ultra 100 miler to my 2025 race calendar. This will be leg 4 of 4 of my attempt at the GB ULTRAS 100 mile 2025 Grand Slam. The race takes place on Saturday 6th September 2025, has over 5,700m of elevation gain and has a tough 40 hour cut…
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Chester 100, that’s my first race of the season completed. And which will hopefully be leg 1 of 4 of my GB Ultras 100-mile Grand Slam 2025 attempt. After completing this race twice before, in 2022 and 2024 I knew just what to expect and knew when and where I could improve. But, at the…