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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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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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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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Well Mt. Ventoux anyway. We are happy guests at the 2010 Salomon Advance Week, here in Bedoin, France. Advance what? Advance Week is the time of year when Salomon athletes, product people and journalists come together for a look into the future! Read more…
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Multiple world mountain running champ Jonathon Wyatt can’t afford to hang around for the good weather. Jono takes the elements as he finds them, and crack on. What’s more running in the white stuff does great things for your endurance, and trail-handling skills. Read more…
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29 year-old dentist Marc Lauenstein blew away a world-class field at yesterday’s 6th World Mountain Running Long Distance Challenge in Söll. The Swiss orienteer was running his first non-O of the season and won the 42km race by almost six minutes! Read more…
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The Smarna Gora race (forming part of the WMRA GP series for 2009) produced a thrilling finale to this years Grand Prix – the seven-race series which crosses the European continent taking in some classic routes and venues. The men’s race saw a huge tussle, with 55 seconds covering the first 6 runners… Read more…
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The challenging mountain running course of 9,5km on Smarna gora just outside Ljubljana has an ascent of 750m and descent of 290m. Due to its technical difficulty and the profile that is changing all long this is a very demanding course that gives advantage to a complete, powerful and brave athlete. Read more…
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Apologies, we are a bit late on this one! What with all of the news flying around on the World champs that weekend we missed one of Europe’s greatest mountain marathons, the Jungfrau Marathon. Thanks to inov8 Europe for the pointer… Read more…
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At the inaugural Commonwealth Mountain Running Championships today Anna Frost and K Wilson Chemweno took the uphill only titles on a dry but overcast day in Keswick. Frost has come into to great form in the last few weeks and won convincingly from England’s Katie Ingram. Read more…
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One of the strongest men’s line-ups of the Grand Prix season to date gather in Norway this weekend for round 5 of the WMRA GP series. The Skaala race is now in its eighth year and is used to elite mountain runners gracing it with their presence… Read more…
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After 3 of the 7 WMRA Grand Prix races Jonathan Wyatt is looking ominously good once again, after a convincing win at the Harakiri Berglauf race in Austria. However, the battle with Robert Krupicka will be very interesting to watch, as the season unfolds… Read more…
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No sooner has the Slovenian dust settled, with superb wins for Robert Krupicka and Anna Pichrtova, than the traveling Grand Prix circus hits Austria on Sunday (Aug 2), for the 1st Mayrhofen Harakiri Run for round 3 on this year’s GP championship… Read more…
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It was business as usual for Anna Pichrtova at the second round of the WMRA Grand Prix in the Kamniska Bistrica valley on Sunday. However, reigning champion and winner of the first round Jonathan Wyatt was beaten into second place by Robert Krupicka… Read more…
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The results took a while to come through from last week’s WMRA Grand Prix opener in Grand Ballon, however by all accounts Jonathan Wyatt is already in the sort of form that saw him take the Series in 2008. The 5-time world champ didn’t have things all his own way it seems… Read more…
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Continuing on from the earlier MST report, the 29th La Montée du Grand Ballon is a season-opening race where race favorite Jonathan Wyatt lay down his challenge for the 2009 crown, and the French racers will prepare for their National Championships. Read more…
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The World Mountain Running Grand Prix series is now firmly established as the ‘champions league’ of international mountain running. It’s considered by many athletes as one of the most coveted prizes in mountain racing. Read more…
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2008 WMRA Grand Prix champion – has a nice ring to it! PE teacher, and new Saab Salomon recruit, Anna Frost is one of those human beings that make the world go round. With sport in her blood from a young age, coupled with that Kiwi tenacity, Anna was always destined for the top. Read more…
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As promised our musings on the “best of…” begin here with the runners. We’ve got a fell / mountain section, UK and International and an outstanding performance, whatever the surface. The choices might have seemed pretty straight-forward, but there will be some out there who will disagree – anyway, this how we saw it in ’08… Read more…
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A combination of hot competition and even hotter conditions meant that World Mountain Running champion, and pre-race favourite, Jonathan Wyatt finished a disappointing 14th place at this years Obudu Ranch Mountain Race. Ethiopia’s Abebe Dinkesa was the happy-man as he waltzed away with the $50,000 first prize. Read more…
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The Obudu Ranch International Mountain Running Race in Cross River state, Nigeria, takes place this Saturday the 29th of November. Hold onto your hats as it claims to be the world’s richest Mountain Running race, and will have the world’s best clambering for those dollars! Read more…
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In this two-part interview the multi-world champion Kiwi took time out from his busy schedule to give us an fascinating insight into his career, training techniques, favourite product and how his inspirations are just everyday people. Read more…
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How many runners can you name that can run 3.43 for 1500m, 13.27 for 5000m, a 2.13 marathon and who then go on to dominate the global mountain running scene for 6 years straight? Sure, there are athletes who have run quicker, but when it comes to crossing terrain-boundaries Jonathan Wyatt is something of a phenomenon. Read more…
