The Trails of Wrath

The Trails of Wrath

There’s a few things I learnt on Cape Wrath Trail. Over 5 days and 4 nights of solo adventure running, I got as far as the Glencoul bothy –  335km, less than 60 km short from the finish. 1. There is no trail on Cape Wrath! It’s more of a navigational/orienteering challenge. What trail there is, it’s under a bog, water, covered in bracken, heather or eroded away to a very thin slit of a […]

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A Lakeland 100 story – “Smile When It Hurts”/”Smile When You Puke”

A Lakeland 100 story – “Smile When It Hurts”/”Smile When You Puke”

Lakeland 100 – no lumpy soup please 🙈 Lakeland 100 is a 105 miles (168km) trail loop up, down and around the Lake District roughly accumulating over 20000ft (6300m) elevation change. I can tell you now there aren’t many flat bits in the Lakes. This was my first proper running race since November 2019 and I only realised how big the race is couple of days before the race start. I saw there were 660 […]

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Ultra Saki
Flung out by fuelling woes

Flung out by fuelling woes

Ultra running is a weird sport. My thought while packing my emergency bag of Doritos in my running vest the night before my run on West Highland Way. I was attempting to (unofficially) break the women’s record held by Lucy Colquhoun, 17 hours 16 minutes. Japan plan I have been training for an FKT attempt of multiple-days ultra running in Japan. Optimistically thinking the pandemic would be over by April 2021 and I could visit […]

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