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At yesterdays 26th World Mountain Running Championships the first six positions in the men’s race were filled by Eritrean and Ugandan athletes, Eritrea also claimed the team title, and young Eritrean Yossief Andemichael absolutely crushed the opposition in the junior men’s race… Read more…
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After a mammoth battle over the closing miles Rob Hope today prevailed over Lloyd Taggart at the 2010 English champs decider Shelf Moor, and in doing so secured the crown. Lauren Jeska took the women’s race and if my calculations are right (?) wins the women’s title by one point from Olivia Walwyn! Read more…
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The hope, from a sporting and organisational perspective, is that the 2010 Trans Alpine Run doesn’t turn into a procession for Andy Symonds and Tom Owens. However, the British pair are not bothered with such frivolities as demonstrated by yet another show of class in Kitzbuhel this morning… Read more…
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After stage 1 and 36 of the 305kms of the 2010 Trans Alpine Run, it is a familiar looking leader board with the 2009 winners Andy Symonds and Tom Owens already holding a commanding lead… Read more…
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I am sure Lochaber man Finlay Wild won’t mind me saying that the biggest win of his hill running career will have shocked one or two onlookers on Ben Nevis today. Beating 2010 Snowdon winner Robbie Simpson by 30 seconds, Wild also soundly beat fell legend and 3-time race winner Ian Holmes into 3rd place… Read more…
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Just over twelve months ago some of the UK’s top mountain runners swept all before them at the 5th Gore Tex Trans Alpine Run. On the eve of the 6th edition they are ready once again (albeit with a slight change in line-up) to take on the might of the world’s best ultra-trail stage racers…. Read more…
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It’s the time of year that many uphill specialists look forward to – elite uphill specialists that is. The 26th World Mountain Running Championships are upon us this weekend and the fields are absolutely loaded with talent… Read more…
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Outside of the big one in Scotland, many eyes will be on Shelf Moor, a crucial counter in the 2010 English fell champs. Men’s championship leader Rob Hope is sitting pretty atop the leader board and after his recent wins is in great form… Read more…
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For the second weekend in a row the international race scene is crammed (World Champs, Trans Alpine, Ben Nevis race, Shelf Moor…). One thing that clashes do mean is depleted fields, somewhere. With the likes of Andy Symonds, Tom Owens and Angela Mudge in Germany for the TransAlp... Read more…
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At the 10th WMRA World Masters Champs former World champion (2000) Angela Mudge negotiated the Polish mountain mist, and the entire women’s field, to win the W40 crown. Mudge’s crown was a beacon in a relatively lean championships for the Home Nations… Read more…
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Some things are quintessentially British, especially when it comes to hill and fell racing. And a fair few of our European friends find the thought of blasting up a hill, with no real track as such, and back down at break-neck speeds, a little odd… Read more…
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Bank holiday racing at Y Cnicht, Achnamara Forest, the Ochil 2000s, the Pendleton Fell Race and the famous Ras Beca ‘sprint’. The weather was certainly looking up and numbers at all events were certainly healthy, here’s hoping for an Indian summer hey! Read more…
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With so much going on in the world of off-road running (UTMB, Kima, World Masters, TransRockies) it would be easy to overlook the UK race scene. But not a bit of it, as we catch our breath and catch-up on the fells of Britain, and some great weekend racing… Read more…
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After leaving what he felt was a disappointing situation in Chamonix on Friday night, 2009 Skyrunning World Series winner Kilian Jornet headed for the Kima Trophy Ultra SkyMarathon® in northern Italy to exercise his excellent form at the moment… Read more…
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You can only win what is put before you. The history books and results of this famous race will not detail the trials and tribulations of the 2010 UTMB. They won’t spell out who was missing from the start line-up. They will state that the 2010 winners were Britons Jez Bragg and Lizzie Hawker… Read more…
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Well almost. And here in old Blighty there are lots of races for the UK mountain folk to get their teeth into. Classic races at the ‘Welsh Matterhorn’ Cnicht race, the long and hard Ochil 2000’s in Scotland, the Dufton show race and Pete Bland’s super-historic Grasmere Senior Guides Race – all 1.5 miles of it… Read more…
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Amongst the plethora of global racing this weekend it would be easy to miss one very important championships – the World Masters Mountain Running Championships. 26 countries head for Poland, for a race up Pilsko Mountain just outside of Korbielow… Read more…
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Four letters that would make many a mortal gulp. One of the world’s most challenging ultra trail races, the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc is one of the highlights on the international racing calendar, and as you might expect the worldwide media is ‘hyped’ for this one… Read more…
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Great little video here from Salomon Canada Community Manager Phil Villenueve, before and during the 37.5km 5th stage of this year’s Trans Rockies. This really is one the chalk-off if you are a serious ultra-trail runner, with stunning scenery and trails that go on for miles! Read more…
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Lots of it too, here in the UK. Latrigg, Ennerdale Show, Ragleth, Tryfan Dash. Some quality runners stretched their legs over the last few days with wins for Ricky Lightfoot, Chris Steele, Pippa Maddams, Ifs Richards and Steven Cale… Read more…
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Lots going on north of the Border this last weekend. Whilst some of the Scottish elite traveled to the US to compete at the WLDMRC at Pikes Peak, many turned out for some quality racing at Craigengower, Two Inns and the Great Wilderness Challenge… Read more…
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With two stages gone the French / Canadian contingent of elite runners present at this year’s Trans Rockies Run are holding sway at the top of the leader board. It’s early days, but the women’s pairing Fournier and de Guire are sitting pretty out in the lead… Read more…
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This year’s UKA Mountain Running Senior Home International arrives in Scotland in September at Aonach Mor, Fort William. The location for this year’s race is special, visiting the spiritual home of downhill MTBing and location of the annual UCI World Cup Downhill races… Read more…
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Carpenter wins at Pikes Peak, nothing dramatic in that headline then! The 44 year old won his 5th straight Pikes Peak Marathon yesterday from fellow Manitou Spring resident Daryn Parker. Keri Nelson was a big winner in the women’s race… Read more…
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With just a few days to go until the festivities begin in the French Alps, North Face (primary event sponsors) have issued a preview communique spelling out their social media and communications strategy – leading up to and including the event itself… Read more…
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Glenn Randall and Brandy Erholtz took dramatic wins at Saturdays classic Pikes Peak Ascent race. The US athletes won the race to the top of this 14,000ft plus brute of a hill, which also included the World Long Distance Mountain Running championship event… Read more…
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So there I was, making a coffee in Corris (mid Wales) cafe on Weds afternoon. In there was a young lady in bike gear out for a spin, non other than top fell runner Jackie Lee. The Isle of Man resident was back in North Wales on a bit of a holiday… Read more…
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The usually quiet mountain running month of August has seen a flurry of activity this year. In the North, the super-long Seven Sevens race was taken to a new level while Wednesday events were held in the South in support of Mountain Rescue and The Bubblegum Club charity. Read more…
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This year is an exceptional year at the famous Pikes Peak races. Not only will the racing be some of the best ever, looking at the line-ups; it will also be a super-important round of the 2010 Skyrunner World Series too. Read more…
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Mountain running tends to take a hiatus during the Irish autumn and hill runners find themselves turning to the frenetic cross-country scene for their off-road fix. The trend set by several new races being organised continues unabated, however, and this fall promises to be different. Read more…
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Following the selection races a few weeks back, both the GB and Ireland teams have been announced to compete at the forthcoming World Mountain Running Champs in Slovenia on September the 5th. As far as the GB team senior men are concerned it’s pretty much the first 6 from the trial Read more…
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After a very busy few weeks on the domestic and international scenes, we return to a weekend of relative serenity with a nice handful of races across the country. For the ‘sprinters’ the classic Y Garn race is on tomorrow in Wales… Read more…
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For many UK mountain runners who excel best at the uphill bit of mountain running, Sunday was the big day in their calendar. It was the selection race for the upcoming 2010 World Mountain Running Champs in Slovenia, and by all accounts was a beast of a race… Read more…
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Simon Booth took his 12th Borrowdale Fell Race win this weekend, beating a quality field of seasoned fell runners. Rob Jebb upset Booth’s decade run in 2009 by beating him into 4th, after 8 straight wins for the Borrowdale runner… Read more…
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What do Snowdon and Djouce have in common? We’ll, this weekend, both where the tasks to be overcome successfully for those with international aspirations in Britain and Ireland, respectively. Read more…
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Those looking at the sharp-end of 2010 Trans Alpine Run should sit up and take note. Tom is back. Tom Owens that is, 2009 TA partner of Andy Symonds. After a tough end to 2009 and early 2010 which saw the Shettleston man sidelined with an achilles problem… Read more…
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It was another win for the diminutive Catalan Kilian Jornet on Sunday at the Swiss classic, Sierre Zinal. 2010 revelation Laetitia Roux had to settle for 3rd in the women’s event as US athlete Megan Lund easily won, beating Anglea Mudge into second place… Read more…
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Hits Ebensee, Austria for another European classic – the Feuerkogel Berlauf. After last weekend’s event at Mayrhofen many will have stuck around for this one, so expect another loaded field including the likes of Jono Wyatt and Anna Frost… Read more…
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For us mere mortals there is plenty going on around the country. The legendary Borrowdale is on tomorrow, 17 miles of classic climbs over the likes of Scafell Pike. Jebby, Ben Bardsley and Pippa Madams are all down, along with hundreds of others… Read more…
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For those with World Mountain Running Championships aspirations, it’s the big one this weekend. Sunday sees the 2010 Trials races (uphill only) based in Llanberis and racing in and around Snowdon. The race also doubles as part of the McCain Mountain Running Challenge Read more…
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The spectacular roar of the Glanmore waterfall, then larger, coined the current name of yesterday’s race venue: The Devil’s Glen. Two former Irish internationals roared highest as Michael Kelly, Gowran, beat a competitive men’s field… Read more…
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We do our best with snippets on orienteering on MST, but when the World Champs come round we’ve just gotta plug it! The festivities in Norway kick off this weekend and last through the whole of next week with a range of events – for all categories… Read more…
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Tomo Sarf gives us the lowdown on rd2 of this years WMRA Grand Prix series – the Harakiri Berglauf in Mayrhofen. Men’s winner Ahmet Arslan smashed the course record into the bargain as he controlled the race on the steep stuff… Read more…
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While English runners turned their attention to the Rydal Round, Borrowdale and other challenges, Irish runners have not been lying dormant. The Trail League kicked off at Glen of the Downs wood two weeks ago with victories for Joseph Mooney and Karen O’Hanlon, Maynooth… Read more…
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Racing in all home nations and Ireland continued unabated as the weather was a little kinder this weekend. With wins for Joe Symonds, Neil Parry and Brian Furey amongst others – it’s not all British Champs and Euro racing round here you know! Read more…
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What wasn’t clear from the early news at the Dollar Hill Race on Saturday was that Pippa Maddams had broken one classy record held by Angela Mudge. It was a close-run thing as she broke the old mark by 11 seconds, but a new record is a new record! Read more…
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Orlando Edwards and Lauren Jeska put in some excellent performances at the Harakiri Berglauf yesterday. Jeska had a stormer to finish on the podium in the women’s race, with Edwards coming in an strong 9th in a world-class men’s field… Read more…
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Spain’s Tofol Castaňer and Kiwi Anna Frost won the fifth Skyrunner® World Series race from Cesana to Montgenèvre on Sunday. This incredibly severe SkyMarathon®, straddling the Italian-French border, summits Chaberton at 3,131 metres… Read more…
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Reigning British fell running champion Rob Hope went a long way to cementing yet another title at yesterday’s Dollar Hill Race. The Pudsey runner took the race by a mere 10 seconds from Prasad Prasad, with Lloyd Taggart third… Read more…
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Except this year it isn’t. The Dollar Hill Race is special this year, why, well it’s a British Fell Champs counter. Expect to see a field loaded with British fell running talent – including Rd1 winner Andy Symonds, championship leader Rob Hope, and fresh from his Snowdon win Robbie Simpson… Read more…
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After what seems like an age since the first GP race of 2010, the WMRA circuit starts back at the Harakiri Berglauf in Mayrhofen on Sunday (1 Aug). Last year’s winners Jono Wyatt and Andrea Mayr will be back to take on this brute of climb, and according to the WMRA preview the field is absolutely loaded… Read more…
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Mo is a bit of an MST favourite as regulars will know. He is a big XC man, and has a big heart. Too often the bridesmaid when it comes to track championships, it was Farah’s night tonight in Barcelona… Read more…
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In probably the finest collection of top skyrunners ever seen in one field, Italy took the gold in the final of the first Skyrunning World Championships for nations held in Premana, Italy, Sunday, July 25. The silver medal went to Spain and France, a new skyrunning entry, took the bronze. Read more…
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The togs on the hill on Saturday deserve a medal for their work in bringing the images back down to sea level after a drenching. Loads more great shots from FRP man Al Tye are now online, along with some crackers by Neale Lewis-Jones… Read more…
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To cap off a day he will probably never forget, 2010 International Snowdon Race winner Robbie Simpson went live on BBC 5 Live Weekend News last night. The unassuming young Scot was interviewed following his win earlier on Saturday…. Read more…
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This may not be breaking news, but its big news. Scots youngster Robbie Simpson has been heralded on this site for some time now, but the Deeside athlete ingrained his name in Snowdon Race folklore on Saturday, as he became the youngest ever winner of the race… Read more…
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Germany’s Thomas Dold, current Vertical World Circuit® champion, has won the Sydney Tower Run Up – 1,504 stairs in 7’4”, repeating his 2009 win and time. The fastest woman was also last year’s winner, Australian Vanessa Haverd, who won in 8’45”… Read more…
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The 35th International Snowdon Race takes place tomorrow, amongst eager anticipation as a new continent enters the fray. 2009 Commonwealth champion Wilson Chemweno arrives in Wales late on Friday, and will take to the line after a long journey from Kenya.. Read more…
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The Scottish team heading down to Wales this weekend looks very useful. It is a team of bright young things including Robbie Simpson, Catriona Buchanan and Andrew Fallas, coupled with the experience of Alasdair Anthony and Matthew Sullivan… Read more…
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The Venezuelan athletes dominated the 5th edition of South American Mountain Running Championships 2010, in the beautiful scenery covered in snow in the Cerro Arco, near the City of Mendoza, Argentina. Both races, men and women, were imposed athletes of Venezuela (Pedro Puente and Cruz Salazar, respectively). Read more…
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It was hot, very hot. Another amazing ultra trail race, on one of the most challenging routes in the world of ultra trail running. Lahcen Ahansal and Martine Hofstede were the mens and womens victors, however the spoils must go to all finishers on this 220km beast! Read more…
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IMRA may have found the perfect bridge between road running and mountain running with this race, whilst many of IMRA’s traditional “long-distance men” were in attendance… Read more…
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The Tom na Bat Hill Race, the second in this year’s SHR Champs, was a close run thing on Saturday as ‘Cosmic’ Dan Whitehead narrowly beat Brian Marshall on this swift 5.6km route, taking the course record into the bargain… Read more…
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The penultimate round of this years English Fell Champs hit Holme Moss on Sunday. Karl Gray is not a new face to fell running, however this was his first championship race win in 2010 and such was the Calder Valley runner’s form he also took the course record… Read more…
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Outdoor retailer Blacks has teamed up with top outdoor brand The North Face for a new trail race on the beautiful Dunstable Downs in October. The blackstrailrun.co.uk site is full of event info, including trail running tips by Jez Bragg… Read more…
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Recent winner of round 2 of the British Fell Champs, Tim Davies, was back on the hills this weekend at the excellent Moel Siabod race in Capel Curig, winning in a close fought race with Shrewsbury’s Steven Cale. There was also racing at Fan y Big and Preseli… Read more…
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The Grossglockner Berglauf is one of the great European mountain races of the summer, and yesterday’s race only added to that status. The men’s field was deep with talent – much of it African – showing that the East Africans have now got a taste for the mountains! Read more…
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Ten nations and 200 athletes participated the first Vertical Kilometer® World Championship – a gruelling 1,000m ascent with an average 50% incline over 2.1 kilometres from Alba di Canazei (1,465m) to the summit of the Crepa Neigra (2,465m). Read more…
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Welsh international Rob Samuel made light work of the Salomon Forest Trail 10k at Delamere Forest last night, beating England’s John Brown by over a minute. Samuel, along with women’s winner Tammy Lewis-Jones, were comfortable victors after their dash from over the border… Read more…
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We’re well past half-way through summer but there’s still plenty of action in Ireland, here’s a quick look at some of the happenings…. Read more…
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If you fancy a run-out tonight and live in proximity to Delamere forest, head down for the last in this summers Salomon Forest Trail 10k races. Proceeding start at 7pm, and with over 350 entered this one is gonna be a great end to a great series… Read more…
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The 35th International Snowdon Race is ready. Film crews are on the mountain today (15 July) for a final recce, the international teams have been confirmed, last minute news pieces and reminders are being posted on the excellent event website… Read more…
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It’s not often that you have to hail the exploits of the officials and helpers over the athletes in a race. But last night’s Stiperstones fell race seemed to be one such occasion. The rather inclement weather over the last week or so in the northern region of the UK… Read more…
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And lots of it! Those busy racers in Scotland have been racking up the hill miles in the last week or so. Emma O’Shea, Dan Whitehead and Brian Marshall have been amongst those making the headlines… Read more…
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The race details and UK selection criteria have been announced on the FRA site for this years World Mountain Running Championships in Slovenia. For those interested the Slovenian course is previewed here and looks pretty gnarly.. Read more…
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Colm Hill had done his best to keep the Leinster Championship alive into the final round at Fraughen Rock Glen before being undone by Brian Furey late in that race. On the slopes of Mt. Leinster he proved a man on a mission intent on securing victory, runner-up in the league and the course record… Read more…
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Perhaps predictably, Joe Gray led from start to finish at last weekend’s 7th NACAC trail championships. The race was pretty much a battle between American Gray and Canada’s Taylor Murphy, though runner up Murphy led the Canadians to the team win… Read more…
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Another IMRA summer league has waxed and waned as the thirteenth, and most technical, of the routes finished yesterday at The Great Sugarloaf (501m) next to the M50 highway. Barry Minnock had wrapped up the men’s individual title… Read more…
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Athletes from the United States of America and Canada will go head-to-head at the NACAC Championships in the Canadian Rocky Mountains on Friday. Athletes to watch from the United States include Joe Gray… Read more…
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After a 3rd place finish in 2009 Sébastien Chaigneau, returned to the Olympus Marathon, an annual trail race up the slopes of Mount Olympus – the Greek mythical ‘mountain of the gods’ – to take a famous victory.. Read more…
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The future of British fell running looks likely to be safe in Scots hands after youngsters Robbie Simpson and Catriona Buchanan shone at the this weekend’s European Mountain Running Championships. Ahmet Arslan of Turkey made it 4 in a row in the senior mens event… Read more…
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At the 2010 Orobie SkyRaid race yesterday UK-based Salomon Trail Team affairs to win the men’s and women’s events. The race in the Italian Alps sees teams of three take part in a grueling test of both running and climbing abilities… Read more…
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Some lovely green shots of a fell race in the height of summer – what could be better? Saturday’s Callow race as depicted by Al Tye of Fell Running Pictures fame. A clear win for Welshpool-man Richard Roberts, with partner Anna Bartlett taking the ladies… Read more…
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The Irish Championship entered its third fixture this weekend at Lugnacoille, Leinster’s lone Munro, but arguably the easiest race of the series but also the final counter in the King/Queen of the Mountains competition setting the stage for an enticing drama… Read more…
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Summer is high and the racing is still very much on over in Ireland. Rene Borg reports on Trooperstown and the Rogaine. Two very different events, resulting in one very similar outcome – a win for Irish mountain-dominator Eoin Keith… Read more…
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The North Face Global Team athlete Tracy Garneau took first place, women, in the 100-Mile Western States Endurance Run 2010, which took place June 26 – 27, 2010. She won with a time of 19:01:55, and is the first Canadian to ever win the race. Read more…
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Superb news comes from the World Mountain Running Youth Challenge last weekend, as Welsh youngster Ffion Brice led them home to take the world title. We missed this one, but better late than never, and what great news for mountain running in the UK as Brice led home a quality field in the girls event… Read more…
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Don’t miss out on what appears to have been a very busy few days north of the Border last weekend. A plethora of races up and down the country saw wins for Steven Fallon, Matthew Sullivan and Andrea Priestley amongst others… Read more…
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Take place this weekend in Bulgaria. A strong team for the UK will travel following the trials races a few weeks back, and with 26 nations represented it should be quite an event… Read more…
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Year after year the images available online for great races such as yesterday’s Western States 100 get more and more plentiful. It used to be that as such events you would get a couple of photographers, and you wouldn’t see the results for weeks… Read more…
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This is what Geoff Roes wrote on his blog last Tuesday. The Western States 100 has barely finished but already people are calling it one of the greatest races in the history of the this trail running classic… Read more…
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The 2010 Western States 100 is now just hours away, and we are told that there is huge anticipation for this years race. Apart from the fact that it is probably the biggest ultra trail race in the US, a certainly young ultra trail running star has also made the trip. Read more…
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There seems no let up in the warm and dry weather in the foreseeable future, which is great for race organisers, but sometimes not so great for those taking part in said race. Lucky then that this weekend’s Sedbergh 3 Peaks is merely a short dash… Read more…
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Wins for Steven Cale, Ricky Lightfoot, Clare Whitehead and vet Paul Jenkinson, amongst others, as the UK summer continued to shine on the ever-popular mid-week racing in the UK. The Pen 3 Hills race looked particularly steep, as this image by Gwynfor James demonstrates! Read more…
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A long Leinster League season nears the end and the first signs of fatigue may have been apparent at the running of the new Seefingan course was 135 runners took the field. Or perhaps it was an air of post-script with Barry Minnock and Rathfarnham WSAF having wrapped up the individual and team titles last week… Read more…
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Andy Symonds is in fine fettle at the moment, and underlined his strength coming off last weekend’s LAMM win by winning the Run4It SHR championship long race at Glen Rosa on Saturday. He was chased home by Brian Marshall and Prasad Prasad in bright sunshine on the isle of Arran… Read more…
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Runners were once again treated to an unusually dry and clear passage up Lugnacoille’s “back door” in the Fraughen Rock Glen from which yesterday’s penultimate Leinster Championship race took its name. Read more…
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Another convincing performance from Merionydd runner Ifan Richards sealed a 3 minute win at yesterday’s Moel Hebog race in North Wales. Richards is in fine form at the moment and is riding high following his selection for the Welsh team at the International Snowdon Race in July… Read more…
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Borrowdale’s Simon Booth won today’s Great Lakes Race for a second consecutive year in a time of approx. 2 hours 40 mins – over 20 minutes in front of the second-placed runner! The 13 mile course is highly demanding, climbing over 7000ft… Read more…
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Sorry all UK readers, a bit late on this one this weekend. Plenty of interesting races this weekend in England, including Tebay. It’s Moel Hebog in North Wales and the classic West Highland Way race in Scotland… Read more…
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Do hill runners only accept the uphill to enjoy the downhill? Whatever their reasons, only 164 runners gathered excitedly in Crone Wood for the ascent up Djouce Mountain... Read more…
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Kenyan Haggai Chepkwony was the lead runner in last weekend’s Man vs Horse race in mid-Wales. The classic sporting contest over 22 miles was won yet again by four legs, as local Llinos Jones took the overall victory in 2 hrs and 7 mins… Read more…
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Following up a successful opening year can be difficult but the Mourne Way marathon series organisers seem to have the recipe. Good fields contested every one of the impressive array of distances on offer… Read more…
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This year’s Wicklow Way Relay found itself in one of the busiest weekends of the year with the Mourne Way Marathon up north and the European Trial in Crone Wood robbing the event of some long-distance men and aspiring internationals… Read more…
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While the wider IMRA membership rested after their efforts at the Wicklow Way Relay, those IMRA runners with international aspirations came out for battle on Sunday morning. Read more…
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After the third Trial and the fourth leg of the Skyrunner® World Series in Portugal on Sunday, June 13, Spaniard Tofol Castañer with his second place moves up to head the men’s ranking. Although absent Italian Emanuela Brizio remains leader in the women’s category. Read more…
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The Symonds boys Andy and Joe took a much fancied win at this weekend’s LAMM. Dad Hugh would have been proud of the duo as they took a sizable lead into the Sunday after an excellent Saturday’s running in the Highlands. Read more…
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In England this weekend that is. Round 3 of the English Fell Running Champs took place at the Ennerdale Horseshoe. This was one of the two long ones in the 6-race championships, all 23 miles of it… Read more…
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It was good to see two of the UK’s classier fell and hill runners coming back to something like form after injuries and setbacks have plagued the first half of their respective 2010 seasons. Read more…
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The GB team for the European Mountain Running Championships taking in Sapareva Banya, Bulgaria place on July 4. One obvious omission is that of trails winner Simon Bailey, one can only presume that he declined the offer… Read more…
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This weekend sees one of the UK’s best mountain marathons taking place in the Scottish Highlands. The Lowe Alpine Mountain Marathon is ready for action and with the final location and course details having just been announced… Read more…
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Well the youth is all right and ready to go for the 5th WMRA International Youth Challenge to be held in Piemonte on June the 26th. Girls will face with a 3.5km circuit (/- 190 m), with the guys running a 5.0km circuit (/- 270 m)… Read more…
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Rathfarnham brought a “new” team to the unique Sorrell Hill race when newcomer Colm Moran helped veterans Peter O’Farrell and Aaron O’Donohue secure the club’s fifth win in seven and put regular solar flare between them and their nearest rivals. Read more…
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July looks like a really hot month on the skyrunning agenda, with the first Skyrunning World Championships since the inauguration of the ISF taking place across the Italian Alps. These events are held every four years alternating with the SkyGames®, to be held in Spain in 2012. Read more…
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This was the long one in the Lakes this weekend. The 18 mile Duddon Valley Fell Race took place in hot conditions and was won yet again by Simon Booth. The Borrowdale man was chased home by Tom Owens and Lloyd Taggart for his third straight win… Read more…
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Carrauntoohil, Ireland’s highest peak, has hosted the premier mountain race in Ireland for twenty-three years running now but 2009 marked the last running of the old course. Access issues with a local farmer enforced a change to a route described as “the best ascent of the mountain”. Read more…
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Finding anything (outside of the fantastic bods on the FRA forum) on Sunday’s European Trails Race in Keswick has been surprisingly difficult – especially for what should be a pretty high-profile mountain running event… Read more…
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Heaps of news from north of the Border on a busy weekend. Wins for teenage sensation Robbie Simpson, Andy Symonds, Jamie Stevenson and Claire Gordon, amongst others. Some great results for Scottish athletes at the Euro Trials in Keswick too (more to follow on that…) Read more…
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New Zealander Anna Frost and Spaniard Sebastian Sanchez were the winners of the second Trial and third leg of the Skyrunner® World Series in Canillo, Andorra, Sunday (June 6). The race route was shortened after some seriously bad weather hit the region! Read more…
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The images tell the story of this weekend’s Welsh 1000m race, which finished amongst the Saturday pilgrimage on the summit of Snowdon. It was hot, very hot, especially for those embarking on the 22mile full course… Read more…
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Tonnes of racing this weekend all over the country. As ever the exhaustive lists are online at the FRA, SHR, Scottish Hill Racing and WFRA sites. Picks of the bunch are the Welsh 1000m (previewed here), Duddon, Pen-Y-Ghent and the Glas Tulaichean (uphill)… Read more…
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Perhaps the classic of all Welsh classics takes place on Saturday – the Welsh 1000m, and this one is a beast. The role-call of winners includes fell-legends such as Kenny Stuart, Gavin Bland and Angela Mudge, amongst others. Read more…
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Barry Minnock’s absence at Scarr meant the Leinster League title stays up for grabs for another week. Tristan Drute would be the one to take full advantage when the Sligo AC man secured his first win under the IMRA banner. Read more…
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It’s Kentmere’s turn to put on the trail running jazz this weekend for the PUMA Kentmere Trail Race & Challenge 17km. This race is full and closed for entries, but the weather’s set fair for Saturday and will make for a festival atmosphere… Read more…
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Blacks, in association with The North Face are proud to announce the inaugural Blacks Single-Track 10K and 5K Trail Run. It will take place on Sunday 17th October 2010 in the beautiful setting of the National Trust’s Dunstable Downs, Bedfordshire. Read more…
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History repeated itself at the Isle of Jura race on Saturday as past-winners Rob Jebb and Angela Mudge came home comfortable victors at the classic Scottish race. It was another misty one this year, with many runners encountering nav issues on the paps… Read more…
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Italy’s Marco De Gasperi and Kiwi Melissa Moon won the race up the world’s second tallest building, the Taipei 101 Tower in Taiwan on Sunday (May 30). The 6th leg of the Vertical World Circuit® ascended 2,046 steps to the 91st floor of the 101-story building… Read more…
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Today’s big Welsh fell race on Cader Idris went off in damp conditions, on this most historic of mountains close to Dollgellau, as Mid-Wales man Andrew Davies added his name to the long list of winners… Read more…
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The upcoming weekend is one of the busiest of the year on the UK’s fell and hill racing calendar, with no fewer than 15 races across England, Wales and Scotland. Of course those are just the publicised ones (via FRA, WFRA and SHR ), with many more show and carnival races going ahead… Read more…
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Bit late on this one – but better late than never! The lesser known of the fell running Hope brothers, Danny is fast gaining on his speedier British Fell champ sibling Rob in 2010. This was underlined on Sunday as the Pudsey runner romped to the win at Glaramara... Read more…
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A new team emerged in style on the Irish hill running scene yesterday. Orienteers CNOC took on a strong Rathfarnham team, yet came out with a one point win! They were led home by debutante Seamus O’Boyle who combined with Colm Hill and new-joiner to the team Niall McAlinden. Read more…
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The Beast of Ballyhoura Adventure Weekend takes place over the August BH Weekend, Jul 30 – Aug 1, 2010. The event is a uniquely Irish 36 hour non-stop race across the ancient & magical surroundings of counties Cork, Limerick & Tipperary. Read more…
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Some lovely summer-like conditions by the looks of it at last night’s 6th race in the Great Arete Series in north Wales. Good job then that the A Team (Al and Gwynfor) photographers were there to capture some stunning fell photos – this is what it’s all about! Read more…
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Germany’s tallest building, Berlin’s Park Inn Hotel, hosted the 5th stage of the 9-race 2010 Vertical World Circuit® – where runners from diverse athletic backgrounds battle against gravity to summit the world’s tallest skyscrapers. Read more…
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The exceptionally hot weekend was felt even more so by those of us who chose to venture a little closer to the sun on the hills of the UK! It seems that Scotland didn’t suffer quite as much, however alongside those at Llety the rest of the country was cooking… Read more…
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An unusual field of runners lined up on the tarmac of Ticknock carpark this Saturday to celebrate IMRA’s 30th Anniversary with a re-running of the very first competitive mountain race in Ireland: The Fairy Chase also the sixth race of this year’s Leinster League… Read more…
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International Martin Cox comfortably won the British Inter-Counties race at Llety yesterday, in sweltering conditions. European-based Cox obviously coped in the heat which took a few casualties on 9 mile route based around Moel Famau… Read more…
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Doubling as the first counter in the brand new UKA Mountain Running Challenge the big race this weekend takes place at Llety. The Inter Counties are a big target for many in any year, but with hard cash also at stake there could well be a few ‘road raiders’ hitting the slopes of Moel Famau on Saturday… Read more…
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86 had a crack at this classic dash up Latrigg last night, with victory going to Mathew Fraser. The Keswick club also bagged second through Steve Hebblethwaite. Ilkley’s Kelly Harrison won the women’s race from Judy Howells… Read more…
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The Irish contingent at the European Masters showed that like fine wine they certainly don’t spoil as the years pass: Eight individual and three team medals, including two gold, was the impressive haul for the team. Read more…
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A very strong Scottish hill racing contingent make their way south this weekend for the UKA Inter Counties fell champs at Llety, north Wales. Mark Johnston reports on the detail… Read more…
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The curtain raiser of the 2010 WMRA Grand Prix season saw a narrow win for France’s Julien Rancon in the men’s 13.2km mens race, with Marie-Laure Dumergues dominating the women’s event… Read more…
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Standing World Champions Kilian Jornet and Emanuela Brizio lived up to expectations in the second leg of the Skyrunner® World Series on Sunday, May 16, in Zegama, Spain – despite adverse weather and course conditions… Read more…
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The new Circuit of Avonbeg course is one of the closest things you’ll experience to one of the long English fell-races in Ireland and is a route brilliantly conceived by Paul Nolan, the former national coach and Irish international. Read more…
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Some highly competitive stuff at Cribyn, Goatfell, Moel Eilio and Sarn Helen over the weekend, amidst some glorious weather – and I have to say that the Manx race Creg ny Baa has produced my favourite fell photo of 2010 so far! Read more…
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Plenty on for all you hill lovers. Saturday looks like the best day, weather wise, with Sunday looking a tad wet – not that a bit of rain would put any of you hardy racers off! Some great races on in England, Wales, the Isle of Man and Scotland. Read more…
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10 miles of mud (with hopefully dry weather this weekend!), sweat and tears in the Surrey Hills greet the runners. Read more…
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2009 series winners Kilian Jornet and Emanuela Brizio are confirmed participants in this years first race at Zegama on Sunday. Read more…
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The English and Scottish fell/hill championships have been updated after 2 rounds a piece. 2009 British Champ Rob Hope has a slender lead over Lloyd Taggart in England, with Olivia Walwyn and Emma Clayton sharing the lead in the women’s championship... Read more…
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Shrewsbury runners Steven Cale and Anna Bartlett made it two wins out of two in the Shropshire Hills Summer series at the Cardoc Classic last night. As usual in this great series the racing was fierce and none more so than the battle for the win… Read more…
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It’s that time again as the contenders for the 2010 Skyrunner® World Series pull on their racing shoes and head for Zegama on Sunday. The 5 race series once again climaxes in Bornea this year at the Mount Kinabalu International Climbathon... Read more…
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The Grough is a superb walker and climber resource, it’s also a daily bookmark for MST, and here’s why. Their feature on the 2010 Fellsman is quite brilliant. Insightful, in-depth and full of useful miscellany that makes for a great read. Read more…
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More news from Ireland courtesy of Rene. A new league in Munster, starting with the Clare Glens race, plus racing at Gibbet Hill with Martin Monaghan taking a convincing win over form-man Mick Hanney… Read more…
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Vertical Kilometer® races are renowned for being immensely tough affairs. A race of 1000m of gain in the shortest possible distance. The Russians thought they would throw in a bit of spice and hold their 2010 Skyrunner® World Series Trial on Mt. Elbrus! Read more…
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Prasad Prasad took a commanding win on Ben Lomond today. The Clydesdale man soundly defeated young-gun Robbie Simpson – some feat when you consider Robbies recent form on the domestic scene… Read more…
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A very strong field took set off in welcome break between showers yesterday evening at Prince William’s Seat. 220 runners once again added to what looks to be a record season for IMRA in terms of attendance and, as usual for the Leinster League… Read more…
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A couple of days after his third place at the British Orienteering championships, Murray Strain easily won the 37th Dymyat Hill Race last night near Stirling. Glasgow Uni student Jessica Martin won the womens event. Some great pictorial coverage from Chris Upson too… Read more…
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Over at the Coniston Fell Race site. After his dramatic descent off Old Man Ian Holmes won reasonably comfortably in the end, from Rob Hope and Morgan Donnelly. Emma Clayton took advantage of Olivia Walwyn’s mishaps to take the women’s race… Read more…
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The North Face reconfirms its commitment as technical sponsor for the renowned Lavaredo Ultra Trail in the heart of the Dolomites. Starting at midnight on Friday 26th June this over 90km ultra race is a true test of endurance… Read more…
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The British Championships were held over the weekend on the rolling hills of Cannock Chase. In glorious sunshine Sarah Rollins, British Army won her first British Long Distance championship claiming the crown of Queen of the forest. Read more…
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The joy of racing up and down rugged trails and hills on Wednesday evenings after a long day’s work will now also be available to mountain runners in the province of Munster. Read more…
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There are some races that any runner (off or on road) aspires to – perhaps the Everest Marathon, the 3 Peaks, Pikes Peak, the NY Marathon? The Comrades Marathon is one such race it seems. At 56 miles, it’s not the longest race in the world… Read more…
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This season has seen the beginning of Brian Furey’s rise to prominence in the Irish hills and the Connacht man went West together with a big IMRA contingent for the annual double-header of Croagh Patrick and Ben Gorm the two counters towards the Connacht Championship title. Read more…
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After his fantastic fourth place at the recent British Championships race in Northern Ireland, teenager Robbie Simpson continued to demonstrate why he is being tagged as a future British champion after a convincing win at Stuc a’Chroin on Saturday… Read more…
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Some tales of legendary fell running, from the fell running legend that is Ian Holmes, are coming back from the Coniston fell race. First it was the words, then it was the photos, and now it’s the video. This excellent footage comes from Andy Wharfeego Holden, produced in double quick time. Read more…
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The Dublin Mountains Partnership (DMP) was setup in May 2008 with the aim of improving the recreational experience for users of the Dublin Mountains. Off-road runners now stand to benefit from this mission as the DMP team up with IMRA to bring runners a new exciting event. Read more…
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Battle resumes today at Coniston. After sitting out the 3 Peaks last week past winner Rob Jebb will be raring to go at this one, as will 2010 3 Peaks winner Morgan Donnelly. Looking at the start list it’s a whos who of the current crop of elite English fell runners. Read more…
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Welsh international Tim Davies won a great battle with Afan Humphries at yesterday’s UK trail running championships at the Red Kite Challenge race in Mid Wales. Tavistock runner Jo Meek comfortably won the women’s title… Read more…
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Once again, memories rolled back to 2007 and 2008 as Barry Minnock, Rathfarnham WSAF, continued to stake a claim to regain the title he has held as he made it two victories on the trot. Just under a minute later, 3ROC’s Gerard Butler held off Martin Bradshaw, Bilboa AC, in a tight finish for second and third… Read more…
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Lots of other racing up and down the country this weekend, with the Llantysilio race in Wales, the Beinn Ratha race in Scotland and the excellent Anniversary Waltz in Cumbria. Borrowdale strong-man Ben Bardsley won the ‘waltz’ from Chris Steele… Read more…
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James Walsh was amongst the winners at this weekend’s PUMA Hawkshead Trail races. Now in it’s 5th year, the PUMA Hawkshead Trail Race and PUMA Hawkshead Challenge is a 15km course through some of the most scenic and varied countryside in the Lake District. Read more…
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Plenty of action from our Irish weekend round-up: A hybrid half-marathon, a classical fell-race and a trail race were available for the picking for those not doing the Total Experience Adventure Race in Blessington. Read more…
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Anna Lupton won a second successive 3 Peaks race yesterday as she overhauled the long-time leader Victoria Wilkinson in the final hour of the 23.5 mile classic that takes in the peaks of Pen-Y-Ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough… Read more…
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It’s the big one this Saturday as the longer distance fell specialists hit Yorkshire for the 3 Peaks. Some more updates come in the form of Gary Devine – who is by all accounts going to have a crack at the MV40 record… Read more…
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What a return to the hills and what a race! Barry Minnock, the hegemon of the 2007 and 2008 Leinster Leagues, contested Howth. Given his traditional dominance many would have expected a foregone conclusion… Read more…
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A couple of Wednesday evening blasts to note down, as the summer series’ around the country get underway. Steven Cale and Anna Bartlett got their fast legs on to win at the Wrekin Streak, whilst in Scotland Matt Gillespie and Jessica Martin blew away the cobwebs at the Kaim Hill Race. Read more…
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The popularity of midweek racing continues to grow as huge numbers hit the fells. With the great weather we are currently enjoying there are some great lighting conditions for the hardy photographers up on the hill… Read more…
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Although finishing second behind Italian Antonella Confortola, Anna Frost won the NZ mountain running title at Mt Campbell on Saturday. it was far more clean cut in the men’s race as mtn legend Jonathan Wyatt easily took the title… Read more…
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This weekend sees the 56th edition of one of the most iconic fell race or mountain races in the world. The 3 Peaks race is one of those races that is on a fell runner’s ‘must do’ list, and represents a true fell running classic… Read more…
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The Classic Ras y Moelwyn (Moelwyn 3 Peaks) took place on Saturday in warm conditions. Top Welsh mountain man Richard Roberts took the win by over 7 minutes. At the Mynydd Troed race on Sunday Martin Shaw and Helen Fines were also clear winners… Read more…
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A lot going on north of the border this last weekend, with big wins for teenage sensation Robbie Simpson, the return of Angela Mudge at Tarmachan, where Brian Marshall posted an impressive win. Full details now online at the SHR site… Read more…
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In later years, the small knoll standing prominent over the small marina town of Bray has served as the Leinster League opener and once again this year prospective finishers could get the first of the seven necessary counters at Bray Head, the shortest course in the league. Read more…
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The trail running boom continues in Ireland this summer. Not only could the new Wicklow Adventure Race which featured a mountain run of the famous Spink in Glendalough celebrate around 700 entrants (!) but there’s three more off-road running events for the really eager to match themselves against… Read more…
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Early notice on this one as tomorrow will be spent off-line. Some great racing in England, Wales and Scotland this weekend, with the classic Moelwyn Three Peaks in north Wales, the fast dash at Screel, and the Coledale Horseshoe to name a few… Read more…
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MST is not the first to ask if the likes of trail, mountain and cross country running will ever make it to the Olympic or Commonwealth Games. There are logistical hurdles to conquer, sure, but we think it about time that our great sport was recognised in these spheres… Read more…
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The new flavour in UK urban running races seems to be tower running – that of running the stairs of major landmark buildings in major cities. With the pioneers at Tower 42 last year, and the Gherkin this year, three new races are now set for May in Leeds, Portsmouth and London… Read more…
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Yep, win 29 (!) for Ian ‘Bunny’ Holmes at last nights second race in the series. A massive 323 runners turned out for the race, amazing. Photos from Paul, along with full results and report, now online at the terrific WoodenTops site… Read more…
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The weather forecasters got it exactly spot on when they forecast sunny, warm and settled conditions for western Scotland mid-week and this made for another excellent Highlander mountain marathon. Read more…
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With all that goes on in the big world of off-road running it’s a job to keep up. So, imagine my embarrassment when I realised that we had missed this great run from our old buddy Moire at the 4th Annapurna Trail Ultra race in Nepal… Read more…
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While the Silent Valley race opened the British Championships in the Mourne Mountains this weekend, there was also plenty of action south of the border. Not far away in the Cooley Mountains, the traditional opener of the Leinster Championships took place at Black Mountain. Read more…
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British teams fared well at the 2010 FISU World Student Cross Country champs in Ortario over the weekend – however it was Portugal’s Sara Moriera and Japan’s Tetsuya Yoroizaka who took individual honours… Read more…
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Byron Powell bagged himself an interview with 2010 Marathon Des Sables winner Mohamed Ahansal. The Morrocan has now won the last three events and here he talks to iRunFar about the race prep in the Atlas mountains and other interesting stuff… Read more…
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Preparations for this year’s World Mountain Running Championships in Slovenia are well underway, and last week the local organising committee officially presented the 2010 plans… Read more…
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After a titanic struggle over at the Silent Valley, Kendal AC man Andy Symonds came out on top of the first race in the 2010 British Fell Running Championships yesterday. Pippa Maddams took the ladies race, but was run close by the in-form Lauren Jeska. Read more…
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The Silent Valley won’t be so peaceful this Saturday as the 2010 British Fell Running Championship hopefuls head to Northern Ireland for round 1 of this year’s race series. Reigning champs Rob Hope and Pippa Maddams (was Jackson) will be there… Read more…
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The 2010 Marathon des Sables is well underway. Now in its 25th edition the race is into its 4 stage today and is currently being led handsomely by Mohamad Ahansal. Looking down the results you might also see a certain J Cracknell (GBR) currently in 9th place! Read more…
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The Woodentops gang wasted no time on Tuesday evening in getting the images from race 1 in the famous Bunny Runs online. Of course King Bunny Ian Holmes won, with a massive 300+ runners taking part! Read more…
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With the glut of racing over the Easter weekend comes the glut of results. Events such as the Manx Mountain Marathon, the Pendle Fell Race, the Knockfarrel Hill Race, the Cordon 3 Peaks Classic and the Askham fell race all produced some great racing… Read more…
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Blackburn fast-man Thomas Cornthwaite won today’s sprint up and down Rivington Pike in Horwich by a comfy 19 seconds from Ricky Lightfoot. 2009 winner Rob Hope produced a strong run for third in this classic 3.25 mile race… Read more…
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With 4 races in Scotland and 8 in England and the IOM it’s a busy old weekend, though no races in Wales, NI or Ireland. Still the classic Manx Mountain Marathon goes ahead on the Isle of Man, and the short, sharp Rivington Pike race takes place in Horwich… Read more…
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A call on the Scottish Hill Runners site shouts the name of the Highlander, a two-day event taking place at Gairloch in the NW Highlands over the w/e of the 10/11 April. Entries are open right up until the Friday evening (9 April) at 8pm… Read more…
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In an unusual move the Fell Runners Association have announced a series of backwards running mountain races. The races will be uphill only and be on set trails and marked courses of around 6 miles in length… Read more…
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One down 8 to go. Described as “The Trunce – A Series of Short Off Road Races” this highly popular race series got underway for 2010 on a soggy Monday evening in Oxspring, just outside of Barnsley Read more…
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As reported a few weeks back the money on offer in the US for trail racing right now is considerable. The La Sportiva Mountain Cup, starting this weekend, and advertised as the Top Ten Trail races in North America… Read more…
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After her return to racing last weekend at the World XC the IAAF profile the great Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba. The feature unfortunately didn’t coincide with her winning yet another title… Read more…
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Now available. Thought I would do a new post, as opposed to re-hash! So, a win for Steven Cale, by a sizable margin. Anna Bartlett comfortably won the ladies. Great to see a whole host of junior races too, that’s the future after all! Read more…
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Pippa Maddams (was Jackson) had a cracking run at the tough Causey Pike race in Keswick this weekend, taking the ladies race by over 7 minutes, and running in 13th overall from a field of 143. Rob Jebb was also supreme in the men’s event, winning from Mike Fanning… Read more…
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Previous to 2009, the lack of parking at Lough Tay had always enforced a very strict limit on competitor entries, leaving many disappointed to miss out, as was particularly evident in 2008. With coaches to and from the start this year and last… Read more…
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It was the story of the home-town hero as local Wicklow resident Mick Hanney could celebrate his first win in the second DEBRA Wicklow Mountain Half-Marathon. Read more…
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Borrowdale’s Morgan Donnelly took no prisoners as he romped away from the field at yesterdays Llangynhafal Loop race in Clywd. Quickly establishing a lead from the off Morgan went on to win by 4 minutes, taking a minute off Tim Davies course record into the bargain… Read more…
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I am afraid that a weekend elsewhere, with no online connection meant that the MST World cross country coverage didn’t materialise! Good job then that the likes of Athletics Weekly’s Jason Henderson were on the ground in Poland top bring us some to coverage… Read more…
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Another busy weekend on the fells and mountains of England and Wales (Scots race El-Brim-Ick Dash is postponed). A weekend of great names too – from Lads Leap to the Blakey Blitz. Nothing is particularly long, but there are some tough races going ahead… Read more…
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One of the most traditional fixtures of the IMRA calendar, the Wicklow Way Trail, and its big brother, the Wicklow Way Ultra (the out-and-back equivalent) has awaited eager hill runners every April since 1998, when Maurice Mullins laid out the route. Read more…
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Going into a major championship race on the world stage always concentrates the mind of the UK’s endurance runners, this this weekend will be no different as the cream of British XC head for Poland, and the World XC… Read more…
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Unlike in the women’s race, the mens event at this weekend’s World Cross Country Championships should be a wide-open race. 2009 champion Gebre Gebremariam will be back to defend his title in Poland… Read more…
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Spain will be bidding for rare European medals in the senior men’s race at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, on Sunday thanks principally to the presence of their European champion Alemayehu Bezabeh. Read more…
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The senior women’s race at this year’s World Cross Country champs should be one of the most exciting in whole of the programme as one of world endurance running’s rising stars meets one of the greatest women’s distance runner of the current era… Read more…
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Eryri Harrier Tim Higginbottom won the big mountain race in Wales this weekend, Ras Yr Aran. Calder Valley’s Helen Fines made one of her by now regular forays into the Welsh heart-land to take the women’s race… Read more…
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Plenty going on in Scotland this last weekend, some great coverage coming from the Scottish Hill Runners of the Criffel, Chapelgill and Craig Dunain races. Well known for their short-distance tussles in 2009… Read more…
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In the past years, the IMRA Colleges Championships has been held as part of the Crone Wood Winter League race. This year feedback from students prompted a change to a dedicated inter-varsity challenge to be held at the classic mountain of Camaderry… Read more…
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Famous for producing future GB internationals, the 50th English Schools XC took place at Heaton Park, Manchester earlier today. The course was heavy in places, a real cross country affair, and there were some surprise winners in the six categories… Read more…
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After the dust-bowl of Jordan in 2009 the 2010 world cross country returns to something like a purist sport as the annual circus hits Poland in a week or so. One of the most debated aspects of any world cross is the course… Read more…
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The Edale Skyline takes place this Sunday, all 21 miles of it. A classic long one, made specially harder as it is in the early season and can be open to some foul weather. (mild and probably wet this w/e by all accounts) Read more…
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The Winter League finished on a high note with another gorgeous sunny day at the revised Carrick Mountain route. Your trusty reporter went for a run of the route before the race and local man Mick Hanney had done a good job creating a varied and exciting route… Read more…
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The UKA selectors have announced their selections for the forthcoming World XC champs in Bydgoszcz on the 28th March. Interestingly the powers-that-be have deemed that only 4 men are worthy of the trip… Read more…
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This year the Skyrunner® World Series celebrates seven years of world-class athletes and events with 14 races in 12 countries across four continents. With 700 km to run and 30,000 vertical metres to climb, the 2010 World Series will not only sweep you off your feet but also take your breath away! Read more…
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Mo Farah turned up and spoiled the party at Cofton Park yesterday as he ran away with the men’s race at yesterday’s UK Inter-Counties cross country, doubling up as the UK trials for the World XC in a few weeks… Read more…
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Barely 12 days after race entries opened for the 2010 Snowdon Race the race limit of 500 (plus elite invites) has been reached – and in record time. Race organiser Stephen Edwards had one word for MST tonight “astounded”… Read more…
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For many of the UK’s elite endurance athletes who like a bit of XC in their programme, it’s the big one this weekend. Many can only hope of making a dent in the front half of the World XC results sheet come late March… Read more…
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Mark Keneally broke his silver Duck at this weekend’s Irish National Senior/Junior XC and led his team Clonliffe to another title in this year’s Irish cross-country season. The Clonliffe man took the expected win by 14 seconds from Galway’s Gary Thornton… Read more…
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Snow gave way to sunshine for the penultimate race of the IMRA Irish Winter League – Maulin, the shortest (7k or 4.3 miles) but steepest (474m ascent or 1555 ft.) in this five race series. The final run-in on the Wicklow Way fire-roads is explosive… Read more…
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After Kenyan Mark Bett romped away with the 33rd Algarve International Almond Blossom Cross Country, it was up to the Portuguese World XC hopefuls to book their places for Poland at the final meeting of the IAAF 2010 Cross Country Permit series. Read more…
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Rob Jebb continued his good early-season form yesterday at the Black Combe fell race in Cumbria. The Bingley man finished almost two minutes clear of Ellenborough’s Ricky Lightfoot, Borrowdale’s Jim Davies was third. Read more…
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By all accounts on the FRA forum Ian Holmes ran away with the Half Tour of Pendle yesterday, with Jo Waites winning the women’s race. Full results not available at time of writing, but some excellent images here and here Read more…
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And what a treat there is in store for fell runners in the UK – the weather is set to be decent, and there are masses of races on. So, now there’s excuse (this author included) to not get our there and rock ‘n roll on the rocks and rolling hills! Read more…
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The Portuguese XC selectors will need to get their thinking caps on come Monday, as those hoping to make the plane to Bydgoszcz, Poland for this year’s World Champs on 28 March go into battle at the Algarve International Almond Blossom Cross Country. Read more…
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This historic annual 42-mile jaunt-in-the-dark through the Peak District kicks off tomorrow night (5 March) at 10pm. The High Peak Marathon is a night time navigation race for teams of four, starting and finishing at Edale Village Hall, Derbyshire. Read more…
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The North Face Endurance Challenge runs from may to December across the States, culminating in San Francisco where the winner of the men’s and women’s 50 mile titles can bag $10,000 a piece! With rounds in New York, Washington and Wisconsin (plus one other) there is $14,000 on offer, as each round has a $1,000 first prize… Read more…
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The Sticky Toffee and Beauty and the Beast trail runs take place at Cartmel Racecourse on the 20th of March, and there are a few days left to grab yourself a place. 10 and 18km courses await across gently winding footpaths, although the ‘Beast holds much more darkness in store! Read more…
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Athletics fans are in for a treat this weekend when the Woodie’s DIY Inter Club Championships of Ireland take place in the Phoenix Park over a spectator friendly course. Mark Kenneally of Clonliffe Harriers will start as favourite to win the men’s Senior title on Sunday. Read more…
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Runners Digest went the extra mile at the English National XC on Saturday to produce some outstanding coverage. The mainstream media (outside of Athletics Weekly and Nicola Bamford’s excellent report) scratched the surface, but the ‘Digest really got down and dirty in the Leeds mud. Good work chaps… Read more…
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It was high noon on the Noon Stone on Saturday as renowned orienteer Matt Speake overhauled the cream of English fell running to take a slender win over Dark Peak team-mate Lloyd Taggart. Rob Hope took third place with 2009 champion Simon Bailey in seventh… Read more…
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But be quick. Race entry forms are now online for download, then to be sent to race admin – entry opened at midnight today (1 March). The race organisers have an entry limit of 500, plus international / elite invitation runners, and at 12pm today over 200 forms had been downloaded. Read more…
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As previewed on Friday the pre-race favourites dominated across senior and age-group races at Saturday’s English National XC champs. Both Steph Twell and Andy Vernon ran away with the senior crowns… Read more…
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This weekend sees runners go uphill all over England. From Hereford to Dufton to Guisborough. Next weekend (6 – 7 March) sees a huge amount of racing on the calendar, so people will either be honing their form or saving themselves. Sunday looks a bit iffy – weather-wise – so be careful and enjoy the sport! Read more…
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Kenyan Levy Matebo and sisters Mimi and Almenesh Belete will start as the favourites as Luxembourg’s Eurocross, the penultimate IAAF Cross Country Permit meeting of 2010, celebrates its 40th anniversary on Sunday (28). Read more…
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An excellent preview on this weekend’s English National Cross Country Championships at the famous Roundhay Park in Leeds, by Athletics Weekly’s Steven Mills. This year’s racing should be highly competitive across age groups… Read more…
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A host of celebrities will on Thursday (February 25) join more than a thousand Londoners to climb the 920 stairs of Tower 42 to raise money for housing charity Shelter at the Vertical Rush event. Elite internationals such as Anna Frost will join the throngs racing up the City of London’s second highest building. Read more…
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Despite some confusion among runners as the mooted 10k course was changed to an 8k course on the day, the crowds in Lough Key, Roscommon, were served to an enthralling spectacle as 21-year-old Brendan O’Neill of Dundrum South Dublin ran home from halfway. Read more…
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GB international Freya Murray showed why she is entering world class when it comes to cross country running, as she won the Scottish National Cross Country Championships by a street at Callander Park on Saturday… Read more…
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Great report here from John Griffiths on Saturday’s Welsh Cross Country Championships in Swansea. With Andrea Whitcombe now an adopted Welsh girl there was only ever going to be one winner in the women’s event. Alex Hains comfortably won the men’s crown, romping away from Nat Lane… Read more…
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The flat reddish hulk of Tibradden Mountain has been known as a vaunted ‘ankle-breaker’ in hill-running folklore, strewed as it has been with loose rocks and scree. In later years, heavy erosion of the central trail had forced the route out of circulation for a while… Read more…
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The Kenyan Cross Country Championships took place on Saturday in Nairobi, and whilst the women’s event produced a relatively predictable winner in Linet Masai (World cross champ Florence Kiplagat is injured), the men’s race produced a new star… Read more…
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The 2010 edition of this classic fell race in north Wales took place in snowy conditions. Some great images from the Fell Running Pictures crew of Al Tye, Gwynfor James and Pete Mac – where would we be without this lot?! Read more…
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A race each for the Welsh and English this weekend. (We realise that there may be other races, but can’t find ‘em!). Two classic little races in the shape of Moel-y-Ci in Snowdonia, and Ilkley Moor, both races are 5 miles and should see some fierce racing at the head… Read more…
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Defending champion Freya Murray (Edinburgh AC), who finished ninth overall when representing the British women’s team in December’s European XC Championships, returns to Falkirk this weekend to defend her Scottish XC crown… Read more…
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It’s quite a while since Daniela Vassalli lost a tower running race. Imagine her shock when that defeat was dished out by a 13 year old, in the season’s fourth Vertical World Circuit ® race on Basel’s Messerturm last Saturday… Read more…
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One of the most popular run/bike events of 2009, iROC™ has had to cancel this years event due to date clashes and feeback from competitors – however the organisers say that they will be back in 2011 bigger and better… Read more…
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Dathan Ritzenhein won his third senior USATF xc title in Indianapolis today, running away from a select group with around 3km to go. With many top athletes choosing to sit the race out ‘Ritz’ was always going to be head and shoulders above the rest… Read more…
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Running in almost perfect fell running conditions Rob Jebb cemented his place still further in Carnethy 5 Hill race legend’s role call, as he won today’s race from Carnegie Harrier Andy Symonds… Read more…
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Although a crisp wind was lightly tugging at the runners in today’s Tarren Hendre race – run off in excellent mountain running weather. Eryri Harriers’ Iwan Morton and Andrea Rowlands both comfortably won the mens and ladies categories, in the shadow of Cader Idris… Read more…
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The first real ‘big one’ of the 2010 Scottish scene is almost upon us. The Carnethy 5 Hill race is a classic in many ways (route – 2500 feet total climb over 5 summits, race history, past winners). There are 610 entered for this weekend’s race, and the men’s field is pretty nicely loaded… Read more…
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The US national XC championships and selection race for the World Cross Country Championships, take place this weekend in Indianapolis. Read more…
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In the absence of many established hill runners in this year’s Winter League, notably defending WL champion Eoin Keith of Boards AC, there has been room for daring outsiders to establish themselves among the echelons of IMRA race winners. Read more…
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In the third 2010 Vertical World Circuit® race to the summit of the Gherkin, Sunday, February 7, Italian runners Fabio Ruga and Daniela Vassalli were the winners in this first race up London’s iconic landmark. Read more…
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All points of the continental compass were represented among the gold medallists at the 2010 European Clubs Cup Cross Country in Bilbao. Spain won the senior men’s individual and team titles, Russia’s Sports Club Luch Moscow took both women’s team competitions and Turkish athletes romping to three individual victories… Read more…
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A measly 8 seconds separated Mercia’s Andrew Davies from 2009 English fell champ Simon Bailey at yesterday’s Long Mynd Valleys race in Shropshire. In what appears to have been a really close race the first 6 finishers were separated by less than a minute… Read more…
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This next few weeks will see many National XC championships take place in Africa and Europe, ahead of next month’s World XC. Moses Kipsiro defeated 2009 World Mountain Running champion Joseph Kusuro at Saturday’s Ugandan championships on a dry course in the Amuria district. Read more…
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St.Mary’s students Steph Twell and Andy Vernon took expected wins at Saturday’s BUCS cross country championships in Sterling. With Twell facing little in the way of international class opponents, her win looked a formality. Read more…
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An absolutely glut of races this weekend after a quiet few weeks. The Mickledon Straddle is cancelled, but otherwise there is plenty to choose from. One of the picks for us is the super-tough Long Mynd Valleys, regarded as one of the hardest races on the calendar… Read more…
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The 31st January deadline for the discounted early bird rate created a huge surge of online entrants over the weekend of 30/31st January, causing online entry breakdown for many. Some entries managed to get through the PayPal system, but many were left disappointed Read more…
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Spain’s recently crowned SPAR European Cross Country Championships gold medallist Alemayehu Bezabeh will be out to defend his European Champions Clubs Cup Cross Country title on home soil in Bilbao on Sunday… Read more…
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It only seems like yesterday that we were down in Bordon covering the last of the 2009 Saab Salomon Turbo X races. Well, its now February and it’s just over 4 weeks until the first race of the 2010 series gets underway at Surrey Hills near Bracknell on the 7th of March… Read more…
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New Zealand mountain great Melissa Moon won the Empire State Building Run-Up in New york yesterday. The 40 year-old ran the 1,576 steps and 86 floors of the historic skyscraper in 13 mins13 secs, well outside the women’s record of 11:23 set by Andrea Mayr in 2006. Read more…
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After winning in Antrim just over a week ago Kenya’s Mike Kigen underlined why he is being hailed as one of the contenders for this years World XC champs, with a demolition job on some top class African and European opposition at the Cross Internacional de San Sebastián on Sunday (31). Read more…
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Emerging as one of the best young XC prospects in the UK, Jess Sparke ran away with the coveted Southern Cross Country Championships this weekend at the home of XC in the south, Parliament Hill. Bedford’s Neilson Hall took the men’s title. Read more…
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Huge crowds appear to have greeted the racers at this weekend’s Discovery Kenya XC championships in Eldoret. Yet another name was served up on the east-African conveyor belt in the form of Joel Kimurer, who ran away from top marathon man Sammy Kitwara to take the win. Read more…
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A whole different game of mud, sweat and tears this one. Not really off-roading as we know it, but wanted to post this one for the images alone. Some great shots on the BBC site from AP on yesterday’s 8 mile Tough Guy Challenge in Staffordshire… Read more…
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After Milan and New York, the 2010 Vertical World Circuit® uniting the world’s most spectacular skyscrapers in an exciting new sports discipline, will head for one of London’s most iconic landmarks on Sunday, February 7. Read more…
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Ethiopian Humegaw Mesfin took his second major Cross Country win this year at the 78th edition of the Cinque Mulini in San Vittore Olona on a sunny but chilly morning. The women’s race went to reigning 1500m Olympic champion Nancy Langat who beat young Ethiopian Tizita Bogale by five seconds. Read more…
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The day dawned overcast and cool, the tops were clear and only a few spots of rain dampened the day. Conditions under foot were still tricky in places as the last of the compacted ice on some well used tracks lingered and a snow bank on the lower approach to Bishop Hill provided interest! Read more…
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The Spiritual Home of Irish Mountain Biking it may have been called but Ticknock woods remains a deeply rooted fixture both during winter and summer in Ireland and with Howth Winter cancelled by recent snow… Read more…
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African cross country is really ramping-up its act as 2010 creeps towards the IAAF World Cross Country in Bydgoszcz, with Kenya holding its annual police and forces championships and Ethiopia’s 3rd Sululta Cross Country meeting… Read more…
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After her despondent weekend in Dublin back in December, Mary Cullen gave Euro champ Hayley Yelling a taste of her own medicine at the Antrim International XC on Saturday. The leading Irish XC runner romped her way to a 31 second gun-to-tape win on the Greenmount course… Read more…
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The 2010 Vertical World Circuit® kicked off on Sunday with a double sprint up Italy’s two highest towers. 2009 VWC® champions, Thomas Dold from Germany and Italy’s Daniela Vassalli lived up to their reputation by scaling the 70 floors to win. Read more…
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Commonwealth Games 10,000m champion Boniface Kiprop may be a late withdrawal, but there is still a formidable field for the Antrim International, the sixth IAAF Cross Country Permit race of the season, which takes place on Saturday (23). Read more…
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A $million is a lot of cash by almost any sporting standard. The super-rich Gulf states seem to be happy fritter their money about these days and I am sure that the great Haile Gebrselassie will be more than happy to add that little lot to the small-fry $250,000 for the win at tomorrow morning’s Dubai Marathon… Read more…
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Mary Cullen and Ana Dulce Felix will head to Northern Ireland this weekend in an attempt to revenge surprise Euro XC winner Hayley Yelling at the Antrim International Cross Country. The race will also be an opportunity for Cullen to put the disappointment of Dublin behind her, where 12th place was well short of expectations. Read more…
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Defending Empire State champion Thomas Dold of Germany will attempt to join two other five-time winners of this historic tower race in NYC, when he headlines the field at the 33rd annual NYRR Empire State Building Run-Up on Tuesday, 2 February. Read more…
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This year’s 35th edition is set to be one of the most exciting as the organising committee are looking to attract a world-class field to this historic mountain race up and down the highest peak in England and Wales… Read more…
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The 2010 world XC circuit was back on track last weekend, with racing in Seville, Rovereto, Cardiff, Eldoret and Victoria (Australia). Wins for Benita Johnson at the Aussie Nat champs, Linet Masai in Seville and Abere Chane in Italy, plus much more… Read more…
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Ultimate Trails™ is a new series of off-road events in adventure trail running, mountain biking scheduled for 2010. With an exciting and fun atmosphere for competitors and spectators alike high on the agenda. Race commentary, great courses and other entertainments all make for a fun family day out. Read more…
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This classic Irish round has been awarded status as a points scorer for the years big French Ultra, the UTMB. Writing for IMRA, Eoin Keith reports that runners wishing to take part in the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc need 4 points from qualifying events, the Wicklow Round will now carry 3 points… Read more…
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The 2010 Vertical World Circuit gets underway this Sunday (24 January) at the Vertical Sprint Regione Lombardia. The event is organized by Vista Comunicazione in collaboration with the International Skyrunning Federation which has carried out research on Vertical Running® since 2007. Read more…
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Andy Vernon crushed the opposition at today’s McCains Cross Challenge in Cardiff. The Aldershot athlete delivered a 30 second defeat to the feet of Stroud runner Tom Russell. Hatti Dean was also comfortable in her victory of the women’s 6km race. Read more…
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The premier UK cross country race series, the McCain Cross Challenge, arrives Cardiff this weekend. GB internationals Jessica Sparke and Andy Vernon are in great form and should start as favourites as the series comes to the Principality on Sunday (17 Jan)… Read more…
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Kenya’s Linet Masai and reigning world XC champ Gebre Gebremariam head up the women’s and men’s line-ups for this weekend’s top international cross country event, the Cross Internacional de Itálica, in Seville on Sunday (17 Jan) Read more…
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Most of the UK fell programme remains badly affected by the snow and ice, albeit a thaw is expected this weekend. White Holme Circular, K.G.S.M.R. (Kielder) are canceled / postponed respectively, with Ashurst Beacon leaving it til the last minute... Read more…
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Boniface Kiprop is the latest addition to a classy field getting ready to assemble itself in Northern Ireland in just over a week. As reported on MST a few days back, many GB athletes will be making the trip west to Antrim for some quality competition and a taste of international cross country running… Read more…
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21 year-old Teessider Ricky Stevenson hasn’t yet set the world on fire, in world class terms. But the 2009 / 10 XC season has seen Stevenson emerge as one of the UK’s brightest young talents on the country, culminating with his big win at the weekend… Read more…
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Top endurance-event organisers Pro-Velo Support have announced details for their latest ultra-trail race this Spring. The Wiggle Lightning 12 is a smaller incarnation of the Adidas Thunder Run 24 which takes place at Catton Park later in the year. Read more…
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This year’s runfurther championships are now online. The series opens up with the 32 mile beast that is Howarth Hobble / Wuthering Hike and finishes off with Round Rotherham. The series if free to enter… Read more…
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Jane and Graham Porter, organisers of the inaugural Wexford Open Trail Series have issued the dates for this year’s return: 28th March Little Sliabh Bhui, 25th April Kilbrannish South, 9th May Gibbet Hill. More details have been made available on the 2010 series at IMRA. Read more…
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During a weekend that stopped most of the programme in its tracks those gritty Lancastrians showed the rest of the UK that the show must go on – whatever the weather. The Lancashire AA Country Cross Country Championships went ahead as planned at a snowy at Witton Park on Saturday… Read more…
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Events company 26 Extreme have announced that the 2010 Mourne Way Marathon is set to take place on 12 June 2010. Last year’s event was a huge success and this year’s run aims to build on its popularity… Read more…
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There must be something in the air in Europe right now. The weekend of XC shocks continued as Ethiopia’s Humegaw Mesfin outgunned world cross country champ Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam in the last few yards of the Cross Internacional Zornotza in Amorebieta, Spain yesterday… Read more…
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Excellent round-up from Nicola Bamford, reporting for the IAAF on the International races at this year’s Great Edinburgh cross country. The mainly domestic affair that was the men’s 4km (not reported on here yesterday) was yet another upset as north-east rising star Ricky Stevenson beat Mo Farah into third place… Read more…
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One of the very few off-road races to survive a weekend running programme that was ravaged by the weather. It looked like a great turn out for the CCTPR with only one or two pairs of unprotected legs visible in the freezing conditions… Read more…
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Erm, it didn’t quite go to script this afternoon at the BUPA Great Edinburgh International cross country. Kenenisa Bekele had made it clear beforehand that his recent layoffs and moves into business had not affected his running, and was in good shape… Read more…
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Double Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba stormed through the snow to take victory at the Great Edinburgh International XC. The Olympic 5 and 10,000 metre champion, made a surging break in the final lap to romp to victory on the frozen course… Read more…
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One of the best of many, many previews of the big XC event of 2010 so far. The men’s and women’s fields are completely loaded. Set the TV to BBC One on Saturday, get a brew on and watch some world-class cross country… Read more…
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With all of this extreme weather around hill runners will be training up their local office block at this rate, however tower running is gaining credibility the world over with the likes of Step Change and of course the Vertical Running World Circuit. Read more…
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Abraham Cherkos Feleke from Ethiopia, the reigning World Junior 5000m champion, won the 53rd edition of the Campaccio International Cross Country race – EA Permit – which took place today (6) in San Giorgio su Legnano. Read more…
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Predictably the UK fell, hill and mountain racing events have been hit this weekend. This lot are a hardy bunch but the extreme weather has made much of the higher ground un-runnable, and then there is the travel logistics to add in… Read more…
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The current conditions in the UK are having an impact on running events across the board, with cross country running being hit up and down the country. This weekend is Area champs weekend and it looks like many will be postponed… Read more…
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The citizens of Bydgoszcz are taking to their feet each week to promote the 38th IAAF World Cross Country Championships which will be held in the Polish city on Sunday 28 March 2010. Read more…
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After a highly disappointing run at the SPAR Euro XC in December, UK endurance hope Steph Twell will look to make amends and put 2009 behind her as she takes on the likes of Euro champ Hayley Yelling and Olympic champ Tirunesh Dibaba at this weekends BUPA Great Edinburgh International cross country… Read more…
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The Irish Mountain Running Association represents hill running in all the four Provinces of Ireland (Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster) yet an oft-heard joke is the inference that the association is more The Leinster Mountain Running Association. Read more…
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It was a case of out with the old and in with the new at the classic Auld Lang Syne race on new year’s eve. 380 brave souls got out there in the deep snow of Bronte Country, with Ali Brownlee outsprinting fell legend Ian Holmes. Read more…
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There was a flurry of racing across the snow filled fells and hills of England, Wales and Scotland as the new decade dawned. Great to see some hefty turn-outs at the Greenmantle Dash, The Morning After and Aonach Mor… Read more…
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IMRA’s year drew to a close this weekend as the Charles Barrington Memorial race was won by Richard McCauley in his first IMRA race in 9 years with Rathfarnham’s Laura Flynn 1st woman. This race commemorating Irishman Charles Barrington, one of the three men to first ascent the Eiger… Read more…
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Those Scots are a hardy bunch. With temps well into the minus’ the traditional races at Cruim Leacainn and Law Breaker went ahead as planned on Boxing Day. As the SHR site puts it “40 brave or stupid runners started and finished” at Cruim Leacainn… Read more…
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From the heat of Skyrunning battles, to the depths of XC cold, from the loneliness of long distance record runs, to the grass roots of fell and dale, MST likes to represent all aspects of off-road running… Read more…
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The Bupa Great Edinburgh International XC is shaping up to be quite an event. Edinburgh will see some of the world’s best endurance athletes descend on Holyrood Park, with Tirunesh Dibaba the latest to be added to the glittering list… Read more…
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Outside of big BUPA Edinburgh XC in Jan the only other notable IAAF cross country event within the home nations is in Northern Ireland. The Antrim International has long been a staple on the XC calendar and attracts many of the big hitters from the world XC stage… Read more…
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Spain’s Sergio Sánchez and Kenya’s Veronica Nyaruai clinched convincing victories at the ‘30th Cross Internacional de Venta de Baños’ held Sunday (20) on a sunny but frozen morning with the thermometer marking 9ºC below zero! Read more…
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Andrea Lalli from Italy was the best of a leading group of four to win the Iris Lotto CrossCup in Brussels – IAAF Permit – today (20). The women’s race was won by Adrienne Herzog who proved to be the strongest in an ultimate duel against Jessica Augusto. Read more…
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England will send full teams to the IAAF Brussels International cross-country this Sunday, as the Belgium capital welcomes many athletes moving on from last weekends European Championships or those trying to prove a point… Read more…
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Ukrainian Sergiy Lebid and Portugal’s Jessica Augusto go to Brussels this weekend with a mission. Lebid finished third at the Euro XC in Dublin whilst the Portuguese was a favourite to win the Euro title, but faded badly into fourth place. Read more…
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Three-times race winner Kenenisa Bekele will bid to regain the BUPA Great Edinburgh International Cross Country title next month. The greatest-ever cross country performer, with six IAAF World Championships long and five short course victories to his credit, took little persuading to return to Holyrood Park… Read more…
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This year’s IMRA calendar was released over the weekend and it proves one of the most innovative in years. While several old classic have returned, a surprising amount of new races will be inaugurated. Read more…
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In what was an epic men’s race at today’s SPAR European Cross Country Championships Alemayehu Bezabeh showed why he is one of the continents leading XC exponents by actually toying with big pre-race favourite Mo Farah. Read more…
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From what looked like a great course, perfect weather conditions and a sizable Dublin crowd, the 2009 SPAR European Cross Country Championships went with a bang today in Santry Park… Read more…
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In what could only be described as one of the greatest ever international XC runs by a British athlete, Hayley Yelling has won the 2009 SPAR European Cross Country Championships for the second time in 4 years. Read more…
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Yesterday I reported that the run of Hayley Yelling at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships should go down as one of the most gutsy performances in the last 20 years of international cross country racing, certainly that I have seen… Read more…
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Always glad to see the mainstream press and media pull something out of the bag on the eve of a big race – well I suppose that they have a lot of bases to cover don’t they? With a couple of good interviews the telegraph.co.uk and the BBC focus on two of the ‘home’ athletes… Read more…
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A few races scattered around the British hills and fells this weekend. The weather looks cold, but dry, however after 50-odd days of rain it will still be heavy out there. Pick of the bunch should be the classic team event, Calderdale Way Relay, 50 miles and 6 stages of fell running in teams of 12… Read more…
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Just two days away now for the biggest athletics event to hit the shores of Ireland in recent years. The SPAR European Cross Country Championships will bring a host of colour to the emerald isle and some hot racing to boot… Read more…
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UKA look at the hopes for Team GB & NI this weekend in Dublin. In the younger age groups there are genuine contenders in the form of Ricky Stevenson and Steph Twell. In the seniors Mo Farah must be in with a shout… Read more…
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The 2010 Run 4 It Scottish Hill Runners Championships have been announced. With 2 long, 2 medium and 2 short races, running from March to August, there should be plenty of opportunity for runners to qualify… Read more…
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Local athlete Mary Cullen is confident that with a little help from the partisan Dublin crowd on Sunday she can race to a podium spot at Santry Park. Talking down his chances is GB runner Ricky Stevenson, who is clear that track-is-where-it-is-at for him… Read more…
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Known in the cycling fraternity as the ‘espoirs’. An odd category in my opinion as many U23’s are already well established seniors in their own right. Still, the younger guys and girls race should make for some hot racing at this weekend’s Euro XC. Read more…
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It may be the off season for most of triathletes, but not Alistair Brownlee. The 21-year-old reigning World Triathlon champion secured a place on the GB under-23 European XC team with his strong run at Liverpool in November and this weekend hits Dublin for the European XC champs. Read more…
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Max King, 29, of Bend, Oregon, and Fiona Docherty, 34, from New Zealand won the XTERRA Trail Running World Championship at Kualoa Ranch this morning and each won $2000, airfare from Hawaiian Airlines, and a host of other prizes for their efforts… Read more…
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The SPAR European Cross Country Championships seems to be the stage on which European Athletics Rising Star of the Year award winners want to shine. Stephanie Twell, the 2008 Rising Star, took her third successive gold medal last year in Brussels… Read more…
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As we enter the the last few days before Sunday’s SPAR European Cross Country Championships today we have the first of the previews. European Athletics supply us with the goods, as they hold all of the aces when it comes to championship insight… Read more…
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The East and West of Scotland held their respective cross country championships this weekend, and the competition was fierce. Livingston and Irvine hosted two terrific meets of XC with Shettleston’s Tsegai Tewelde and Edinburgh’s Emily Stewart amongst the winners… Read more…
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Tretherras School in Cornwall had two big reasons to celebrate on Saturday. For one, it staged a superb 29th English Schools’ Cross Country Cup competition. In addition, the school provided one of the individual winners – Charlotte Cayton-Smith in the junior girls’ race… Read more…
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237 runners turned out in bright, sunny conditions at yesterday’s Cardington Cracker. In contrast to some of the foul weather in the Marches over the last few weeks the Shropshire race was blessed with sunshine… Read more…
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On the 13th December Ireland will host its first major European athletics event, the SPAR European Cross Country Championships. For a country with such a proud tradition in cross country running, including John Treacy, Sonia O’Sullivan and Catherina McKiernan… Read more…
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The long-haired giant stands in the wind on a rock. He is overlooking an endless green mountain range, which is clearly visible to the horizon. At his feet, a cliff drops almost one kilometer straight down into a rocky canyon. The sun is firing its rays at the giant as if it wanted to burn him to ashes. Read more…
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The one that they have all been talking about, Tanky’s Trog, takes place on Sunday (6). 21.5 miles from Marsden to Edale with 3750ft of ascent – a real biggee for this time of year. But that’s not all… Read more…
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Entries are in, the teams are picked, and it’s now or never for the 2009 European Cross Country Championships hopefuls as they enter the final week of preparation before Dublin becomes a sea of international colour next weekend… Read more…
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Early news comes from the ceiling of the world that Kiwi Anna Frost has produced a staggering performance at the Everest Marathon. Although results and times are provisional at this stage, the Commonwealth champion placed 6th overall and produced a time of 4hrs 35 minutes… Read more…
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Just hours now until the start of the bi-annual race from Gorak Shep nr. the Everest base camp to the Namche Bazaar. Don’t be deceived by the 6,000ft drop in altitude over the 42km route either, as the last 15km is a brutal roller-coaster… Read more…
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Yes – the JK is coming back to the South West again. It will be 31 years since it was last held in Devon in 1979. Then it was a two day event with the Individual held in Fernworthy Forest on Dartmoor and the Relay in Bramble Brook (now called Bullers Hill) on Haldon Hill near Exeter. Read more…
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The successful Stewarts Cross Country Grand Prix is back again 2010, as part of the Scottish national XC calendar. The ‘umbrella’ covers four of Scotland’s biggest XC races, including the prestigious BUPA Great Edinburgh International in January… Read more…
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Following an exciting trial event at the McCain UK Cross Challenge, in Liverpool’s Sefton Park on Saturday 28 November, UKA have announced the thirty six athletes that will cross the Irish sea to Dublin for the European XC Championships on 13 December. Read more…
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A recent Runner’s World article lamented the loss of the traditional cross-country race as more and more races have moved to neatly kept fairways in local parks and away from the old-fashioned mud-drenched farmer’s field. Cue the Dublin Intermediates. Read more…
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The world of cross country running is certainly taking centre-stage these days with the AK (Athletics Kenya) league in full swing, European Athletics and IAAF Permit races and top domestic action in the UK, plus all of the build up to the highlight of the European season in Dublin on December 13… Read more…
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Ethiopian runners Habtamu Awash and Manilu Daska have won the men’s and women’s titles respectively at the fifth Obudu Ranch Mountain Race, held in southern Cross River state Saturday, with each clinching the US$50,000 top prize. Read more…
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One of the most popular run/bike events of 2009, iROC™, is back for 2010 – bigger and better. After last year’s inaugural race entries have already opened for next year’s event in May, where competitors need to navigate by day and night… Read more…
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Despite the time of year and rather damp weather, the hardy people of the UK still hit the hills for some fell and mountain action in Wales, Scotland and England. Results not through yet on Ras-y-Mast, Famous Grouse, Beinn Lora or Dave Staff memorial… Read more…
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At a sunny Liverpool former European XC champ Hayley Yelling showed a glimpse of her past when she came out of ‘retirement’ to win the McCain Cross Challenge. The race doubled-up as the selection race for the 2009 European Cross Country Championships that take place in Dublin in a fortnight… Read more…
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Liverpool hosts the 2009 SPAR European XC Championships trials this weekend, as the cream of UK cross country running hits Sefton Park. As well as being round two of the McCain Cross Challenge series the event doubles-up as the official trial race for the Euro champs in two weeks time. Read more…
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It’s the European XC trials this Saturday at rd 2 of the McCain’s Cross Challenge Series. With Freya Murray Laura Kenney and Morag MacLaraty they were already a force, but with the addition of Steph Twell to their ranks the Scottish girls are stronger than ever. Read more…
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Martin Fagan and Mary Cullen have been named as the team leaders of the Ireland men’s and women’s Euro XC teams, destined for Dublin in a little over two weeks time. Cullen is in super form, and will be gunning for a high placing in the women’s 8km race… Read more…
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The Cardiff X Challenge is back where it belongs! The Cardiff X Challenge has been invited back into the McCain Cross Challenge Series which includes these other prestigious races: Gateshead, Liverpool, Antrim and Birmingham. Read more…
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World and Commonwealth ultra distance running champion Martin Fryer produced a sizzling performance in the warm conditions to slash almost 7 minutes off the course record in Saturday’s Deep Space Mountain Marathon. Read more…
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World Cross Country champion Gebre Gebremariam is coming to Edinburgh to take part in the Great Edinburgh International Cross Country on 9 January. The Ethiopian will be honing his form in readiness for his title defence in Poland on March 28th. Read more…
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The Irish National Inter-Counties cross country took place on Kilbeggan Race Course in Mullingar, Westmeath, this weekend, and for this occasion athletes were running for county over club… Read more…
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The MST pre-NCAA predictions got the men’s winner right, as Sam Chelanga romped to a crushing win in Indiana. We were a little shy of the mark on the women’s race though, as pre-race favourite Jenny Barringer blew a gasket, collapsing her way to 163rd!! Read more…
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The Vertical World Circuit final race was held on Sunday at Singapore’s Swissôtel Vertical Marathon, crowning Germany’s Thomas Dold and Italy’s Daniela Vassalli, 2009 Vertical Running World Champions. Read more…
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Yep, it’s streamed live on Versus for all you UK and European people interested at 5pm GMT… Read more…
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Reversing the result of the 2008 event at Bordon, Thames Valley Harrier Chris Smith won yesterday’s final Saab Salomon Turbo X of 2009, in torrential rain and high winds. Runner-up was British Fell Champ Rob Hope, the winner in 2008. Read more…
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Reigning World Cross Country champion Gebregziabher Gebremariam opened the IAAF Cross Country Permit season with a victory at the Oeiras Cross Country on Saturday. “This wasn’t as easy as some may think,” Gebremariam said… Read more…
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Fresh news as it happens from Stateside site Down the Backstretch on all of the action at this weekend’s NCAA XC champs in Indiana. The Division I big race is on Monday… Read more…
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Many of Ireland’s top cross country runners will be in action on Sunday at the Woodie’s DIY Inter County Cross Country Championships looking to secure their place on the Irish team for the European Cross Country Championships. Read more…
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Ethiopian Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam, current World Cross Country champion, will be targeting the IAAF Cross Country Permit Series 2009/10 which takes place Saturday (21) at the Finibanco Oeiras Cross Country in Oeiras, Portugal. Read more…
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The last race of the 2009 Saab Salomon Turbo X race series hits Bordon in Surrey this Sunday, for what should be the biggest event of the year. Over 1200 entrants have put themselves down for the 10 miles of trail, bog and flog. Read more…
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Weather-wise that is. Looking at today’s wet weather across the Lakes and the Borders of Scotland, compared to that of the mild, dry and bright south of Britain, the north-south divide is alive and well. Lakes destination-towns Keswick and Kendal are flooded, with more rain to come… Read more…
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Women’s Mountain Region champion Jenny Barringer and men’s Southern Region champion Sam Chelanga could be the ones to watch at next Monday’s NCAA National XC championships to be held in Terre Haute, Indiana… Read more…
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The kids were alright last weekend at the McCain Gateshead International XC races. Thanks to top local news outlet ChronicleLive.co.uk and their intrepid hack Bill McGuirk we also have some excellent in-depth races reviews too… Read more…
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The series of 12 individual meetings which make up the calendar of IAAF Cross Country Permit Series 2009/10 begin next weekend in Oeiras, Portugal, on Saturday 21 November 2009. he Permit series concludes in Albufeira, Portugal on Sunday 7 March 2010… Read more…
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18 year-old Deeside athlete Robbie Simpson easily beat the Druim Fada hill race course record near Fort William, on Sunday. The Banchory runner covered the 6.5-mile course, with 1,200ft of elevation in 42:57. Read more…
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The British and Irish Masters Cross Country took place on Saturday in, Birmingham, African XC from Ethiopia, the Torres Vedras XC took place in Lisbon on Sunday, and Mary Cullen calls on Ireland to get behind the Euro XC champs in December… Read more…
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Great local report exclusive to the men’s 9km race and Mike Skinner, from Saturday’s Gateshead International XC at the Riverside Bowl. Bill McGuirk scribes his event report for local North-East news outlet Chronicle Live and also gets an interview with the Bromley and Blackheath Harrier… Read more…
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The final of the year long 2009 Vertical World Circuit hits Singapore this weekend for the Swissotel Vertical Marathon. Thomas Dold and Daniela Vassalli hold unassailable leads going into the last race… Read more…
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One week out from the NCAA National XC championships all of the regional divisions were decided over the weekend, forming the teams to compete at Indiana State University hosted Championships… Read more…
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It will be no surprise to many in the UK that fell racing in the north and mid Wales this last weekend were a bit…wet! Yesterday’s Penmaenmawr fell race was reduced from the normal 11 to 8 miles due the wet and wild conditions in Gwynedd… Read more…
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In the opening ‘big’ cross country event of the 2009 /10 season the Gateshead International XC races took place on Saturday (14) at a blustery Riverside Bowl. As with the corresponding meet some 12 months previous GB international Steph Twell came out on top… Read more…
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Irish athletics legends Sonia O’Sullivan and Catherina McKiernan have been named as ambassadors for this year’s SPAR European Cross Country Championships, which will be held in Ireland for the first time in December. Read more…
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The timer has pinged, and it’s time to get those spikes out of the oven. The first race of the 2009/2010 McCain Cross Challenge is off (well on Saturday) at the Riverside Bowl, Gateshead. Local press think it’s a local club turn-off, however UKA is pretty excited... Read more…
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Last weekend, Ashland, Oregon played host to the Lithia Loop Trail Marathon – this year’s USATF trail marathon national championships. Two days prior to the race, the forecast called for cold rain low on the course and snow. Reports Byron Powell. Read more…
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USA and Germany produced the overall Windstopper® Trailrun Worldmasters winners this weekend, after three stages of trail and industrial wasteland racing in Dortmund, Germany. Read more…
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The Al Andalus Ultra Trail is a very tough 5 day, 5 stage race of around 225km. The course provides a very demanding test not just for your legs but for your character and determination. Temperatures will be high (35-45C), climbs numerous and long. Read more…
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The inaugural votwo Pembrokeshire Coast Challenge took place from the 6th – 8th November 2009. Following in the footsteps of the established Jurassic and Atlantic Coast Challenges this was the first time that votwo events team headed across the Severn Bridge… Read more…
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Break-neck descents were the decisive factor as the last major race of the IMRA season took place around Djouce Mountain for the traditional Powerscourt Ridge race. Read more…
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There is no denying the fact that the first Athletics Kenya Cross Country Series meeting in Machakos belonged to the locals. Training partners John Mwangangi and Caleb Mwangangi swept the senior men’s and junior men’s races in style… Read more…
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Denmark took a clean sweep in the Men’s 9km at the Nordic Cross Country Championships in the southwestern city of Perniö, Finland on Saturday. Morten Munkholm took the win in 26:18, only one second ahead of Andreas Bueno. Read more…
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Seems a good time was head by all if the forum comments and the race photos at Sunday’s Roaches 15 mile race are anything to go by! The lengthy race (for this time of the year) saw victory going to Horwich man James Kevan. In the women’s race Dark Peak’s Karen Davison had a stormer, coming 16th overall and winning her class by a massive 15 minutes… Read more…
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Horizontal rain, stinging hail, mist and even a little snow is all a summit marshall needs. Having left a little late for comfort the summit marshalls “hurried” from base control in damp , slightly breezy weather at a creditable pace. Read more…
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The 2009-10 European Athletics Cross Country permit series starts on Sunday with the 6th Cross de Atapuerca in the Spanish town of Burgos. The first race of the nine-meet series will also mark the unofficial beginning of the XC season in Europe Read more…
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Spanish title defender Alemayehu Bezabeh narrowly lost out to current World XC Champion Gebre Gebremariam of Ethiopia over 8.76km on Sunday at the 6th Cross de Atapuerca – the opening EA Cross Country permit meeting of the season. Read more…
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Scottish Hill Runners report: Prasad Prasad took the Tinto race firmly in his grasp and, on a fine day to be out on the hill, came home a clear winner in a record size field. Claire Gordon was first woman. Full results to follow. Read more…
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In the bid to prepare for next month’s SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Dublin on 13 December, several of Ireland’s top Cross Country runners will be in action across Europe this weekend. Four Irish athletes will compete at the European Athletics Cross Country Permit race… Read more…
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The WINDSTOPPER® Trail Run Worldmasters will be held in Dortmund, the heart of the Ruhr district. The finish on the site of a former coal mine close to downtown Dortmund, right next to a former blast furnace… Read more…
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As the world’s finest cross country runners prepare for the beginning of the upcoming season, so too is the northwestern Polish city of Bydgoszcz as it prepares to host the 38th IAAF World Cross Country Championships on 28 March 2010. Read more…
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Looking at this weekend’s fell programme there are no fewer than 7 fell races in England and Wales. Add to this the Tinto Race near Biggar, and classic Powerscourt Ridge race in the Wicklow hills… Read more…
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Three coastal path marathons, in three days, on some of the most stunning and significant coastal paths in the world. Yes, that’s the VOTwo Pembrokeshire Coast Challenge, and it starts on Friday. Read more…
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Entries are now being accepted for the 2010 Highlander Mountain Marathon. This is a toughie and check out the emotive 2009 gallery set from rightplacerighttime.co.uk.... enough in itself to make you want to get your entry in! Read more…
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England has selected strong Teams for the Gateshead International on the 14th November, to take on teams from the other 3 Home Nations. All the runners have already demonstrated good form this season and are sure to do well at Gateshead and a number ran for GB in last season’s World Cross Country Champs. Read more…
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As the Scots’ hill season draws to a close, three of the main protagonists of 2009 continued to dominate the men’s event at last weekend’s Meall a Bhuachaille race. Youngster Catriona Buchanan had a storming run to upstage another dominant force in 2009 women’s hill racing, Clare Whitehead… Read more…
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We reported a little prematurely on this one on Monday. However the authoritative take in the Saturday’s Dublin Seniors XC comes from our man across the Irish Sea, Rene Borg. With great detail and links to some excellent images Rene delivers (and even had the time to race himself!). (Ed.) Read on… Read more…
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Consistency was the name of the game for Bedford and County AC’s men as they retained their English Cross Country Association relay title in Mansfield on Saturday. Although none of the quartet managed to dip under the magical 15 minutes for the 5km course… Read more…
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Maria McCambridge, now based in Letterkenny, regained the women’s senior title at the Dublin Cross-Country Championships in Sat Ann’s Park after leading from the start. In the men’s race, Tallaght’s Sean Connolly took a decisive lead on the final lap after the lead had changed hands several times. Read more…
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The Ron Hill Great Whernside race doubled up as the Yorkshire Senior and U23 championships this weekend. At 4m/1555’ it’s a sharp one, and took a mere 30:45 for P&Bs John Heneghan to complete… Read more…
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Mark Hanrahan overcame the tough conditions to win his third Cork senior cross country title at The Showgrounds Clonakilty yesterday. Heavy overnight rain made underfoot conditions tough and a heavy shower during the last lap ensured athletes would have plenty to talk about… Read more…
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Because of the severe weather – strong winds and blustery showers the bad weather route was used. The race was won by Steven Cale of Shrewsbury in a time of 45 minutes and 31 seconds. The ladies race was won by Andrea Rowlands of Eryri in 50.11. Read more…
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It was a wonderful day for all mountain running supporters in Morbegno, Northern Italy, at the famous Trofeo Vanoni Race. A total of 130 relay teams participated in the race, along with 50 women and 300 youth competitors in the junior race for a total of 740 runners. Read more…
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A sunny windy day in the Wexford village of Adamstown set the scene for this year’s Leinster Novice Cross-Country. The organisers had designed a loop slightly longer than 1500m on a farmer’s field with gentle descents and climbs… Read more…
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Gibraltar is the site of the final race in the International Association of Ultrarunners (IAU) calendar – the 50 km Trophy Final – on Saturday 31 October. Athletes were selected on the basis of 50km races organized around the world. Lucas Nonyana (RSA) and Kami Semick (USA) are the men’s and women’s leaders going into the race. Read more…
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Adventure marathoners and ultra athletes are always looking for the next big challenge. It could be a remote desert marathon, a high altitude mountain marathon or a jungle marathon. However, mainland Antarctica represents the last frontier… Read more…
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Halloween 2009 additionally marks a special occasion for the glorious Berry Hill Park in Mansfield as this year, the Nottinghamshire venue will be celebrating as they reach their 20-year milestone of hosting the annual Saucony English Cross-Country Relays Read more…
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Registration for the 2010 GORE-TEX® TransRockies Run is now officially open, an early initiative designed to manage the increased interest in the unique event. Runners from all over the world will be signing up for one of the coveted entries to take on this spectacular challenge… Read more…
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Last year, the presiding IMRA chairman Tony Kiernan, decided to resurrect the Stone Cross to Lug Relay, bringing it back on the calendar from an 8 year hiatus. This year, the event has survived despite, or perhaps, because of, modest attendance… Read more…
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The men’s race was won by Jean Ndayesinga (Birchfield) in 30:25 from Tom Humphreys (Cannock & Stafford) 30:45 and Chris Davies (Telford) 30:52. In the women’s race Kate Avery (Shildon U20) started her season in fine form with victory in 22:38 from Kirsty Milner and Sara Treacy… Read more…
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France’s Julien Rancon reigned supreme in the 52nd running of this famous race in Morbegno (Italy). As reported last week, three top British runners traveled representing the International Snowdon Race. Read more…
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Preparations for Ireland’s first SPAR European Cross Country Championship are now in full swing, with just 50 days left until the event, which is taking place on the 13th of December. Read more…
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Kilian Jornet was crowned Skyrunning World Champion at the final of the Skyrunner® World Series in Malaysia, Sunday, October 25, his second world title. The young Spaniard lived up to expectations by ascending the 4,095m Mount Kinabalu leading the pack of top international skyrunners… Read more…
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There was a sense of déjà vu at Saturday’s Scottish National Cross Country Relay Championships, Central AC dominated the senior women’s race from start to finish as they did 12 months ago; Shettleston’s men came out on top in both junior and senior events Read more…
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The new wave of media and technology sees the OMM at the forefront in coupling this with the wilderness and personal challenge of the event. This year a series of podcasts have been put together relaying the finishers as they arrive… Read more…
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The Snowdonia Marathon, now in its 27th year, yesterday showed why it can still be considered one of the very best marathons in the UK. With the entry limit (2000) reached in August demand for this scenic, challenging and wild marathon continues unabated… Read more…
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Time to for OMMers to pack up their troubles in their old kit bags and head for the hills and trails of Builth and Llandrindod Wells this weekend. North Wales also hosts one of the greatest British marathons on Saturday in Snowdonia. Read more…
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Ten athletes have been pre-selected by Athletics New Zealand for 38th IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland which takes place on 28 March 2010. The selections are: Kimberley Smith, Fiona Crombie, Kellie Palmer and Sarah Biss… Read more…
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A star-studded line-up is forecast for the Skyrunner® World Series final in Malaysia on October 24 and 25. The steepest race on the eight-race circuit reaches the summit of Asia’s second highest mountain, Mount Kinabalu (4,095m)… Read more…
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From Kent to Gwent, from the Chilterns to the Highlands. From local league, to big league and everything in between. If you are a cross country league, race, series organiser… Read more…
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Top African mountain running nations have confirmed their participation in the first African Mountain Running Championships next month in Nigeria. The championships will hold alongside the Obudu International Mountain race Read more…
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The dates for next year’s British Fell Running Championships have been announced. With one in Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland – kicking off with Slieve Binnian (Mourne Mountains) in April. Read more…
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Phillipa Jackson had already sewn-up the 2009 women’s English Fell Running Championship prior to last weekend’s final race at Langdale. However, with all to run for at the last race the men’s championship went down to the wire… Read more…
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Irish internationals Mary Cullen and Mark Christie proved too strong for some quality opposition at the first big XC event of the 2009/10 season, the Aviva Health Gerry Farnan Cross Country held in Dublin’s Phoenix Park on Sunday (18). Read more…
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Following the sad death of our Treasurer and good friend, Ron Skilton, to Motor Neurone Disease in Dec 2005 this event was added to our Green Events calendar. The route for the half marathon is a figure of 8, mainly off-road and approx 13 miles long. Read more…
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There was an abundance of pre-NCAA collegiate cross country action over in the US at the weekend. Women’s hot favourite Jenny Barringer was in scintillating form yet again, winning at Terre Haute in Indiana. Read more…
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2008 winners and runners-up, Bingley and Mercia, and Pudsey and Bramley were all disqualified from the UKA British Fell relay champs, held in a misty and damp Ennerdale Hills on Sunday. Although the detail is currently a little vague, it appears all three missed CP1 on the fourth leg… Read more…
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Last week we had news from the Novice Cross-Country series in Dublin, Wexford and Wicklow. However, there was more action in Leinster on the weekend’s of the 3rd and 11th of October Read more…
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On this weekend (Sun 18), taking place at Kirkland Leaps (GR 087184). Last year saw a mammoth battle between Bingley and Mercia, with the Yorkshire men coming out on top. Calder Valley beat the Bingley girls in the women’s race. Read more…
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Top finishers at this year’s Snowdon Race have been invited to race under the Great Britain banner at this year’s Trofeo Vanoni to be held in Morbegno (Italy) next weekend (Oct 24-25). The historic race up Snowdon enabled a twinning of host village of Llanberis and Morbegno. Read more…
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Not for the fainthearted Ultramaratón Fuego y Agua is an extremely challenging foot race on Isla Ometepe in Nicaragua. The race is composed of four different event options, the 25k, 50k, 100k and a 2/3-person 4-stage 100k relay… Read more…
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