by Richard Brawn | Sep 18, 2019 | Road_Reports
The full UTMB race is classed by many runners as the very pinnacle of achievement. It’s kind of like the final destination that all ultramarathon roads eventually lead to. Certainly all mountain ones anyway. To qualify for the UTMB, runners have to accrue a...
by Richard Brawn | Sep 15, 2019 | Road_Reports
It’s fast, it’s flat and it’s ferocious and it has been known to, on occasions, provide a fairytale foray for runners looking to inscribe a new PB onto their Power of 10 portfolio. That’s exactly what Simon Hearn was hoping to when he travelled...
by Richard Brawn | Sep 14, 2019 | Road_Reports
The New Forest Rattler Endurance Weekender is an event primarily aimed at triathletes, consisting of a swim, a bike ride and a run. It’s a very inclusive event though and competitors can take part in either the swim, the bike ride or the run as individual...
by Richard Brawn | Sep 13, 2019 | Road_Reports
Beast by name and beastly by nature, the “Tout and Back Again”, as it’s otherwise known, is one of those races that is as brutal as it is brilliant. It’s one of those runs where the course almost seems especially designed to be as testing as...
by Richard Brawn | Sep 6, 2019 | Road_Reports
It was a big day in the calendar of one of Bournemouth AC’s most experienced and most consummate long distance runners when Andy Gillespie took to the start line for the 2019 Salisbury 54321 50k. Not because it was a 50k ultra marathon though and not because it...
