It’s always an interesting exercise to see how you paced a race as you know where you need to work on things like not going off to fast and maintaining an even effort, sometimes even achieving a negative split. For my first ultra I was never really interested in the time I was running for each…

The time had come for my biggest race of the year. I enquired about entry to the race back in January as it was full and I was put on the reserve list. Once I had ran Balloch to Clydebank Half Marathon in March the plan was to concentrate on this race.  The first long…

So this weekend I make my ultra debut in the Glenmore Forest. The race is straightforward requiring little navigation skills and no requirement to carry any kit with me. A 4 mile loop with water available every 2 miles, run as far as you can for 12 hours. Sounds easy! Some crazy folk are carrying…