Martin Fryer’s Midnight Mountain Marathon Race Report
Talk about doing things on the spur of the moment, but after a chilly mid week run in the Blue Mountains I was drawn to knocking out another marathon plus training run this weekend when I stumbled upon what can only be described as a very slick version of a Fat Ass run. Martin “Flyer” … Read more
“Whatever happens, just keep on smiling!” Marcus Warner GNW100′s Race Report
My successful journey down the hallowed strip of sand at Patonga Beach started 5 months earlier with a chance meeting with US ultra-running legend Andy Jones-Wilkins at the 2011 Western states 100 miler. A number of you will have seen the video where we talk at length about what completing a 100 miler means to … Read more
GNW Training – The day train to Patonga
This run used to be our staple ‘final long run’ before the big dance three weeks out. Now, it’s just another regular training weekend run as the stakes for places gets higher each year. From Yarramalong through to Patonga is known as the ‘back-half’ of the course and roughly 70kms in length. Technically it’s not … Read more
GNW Training – 11 weeks to go
It’s getting serious now. GNW is but nine or so ‘proper’ training weeks away and it’s fair to say that the meat and drink of the training is being fully consumed. The gentler warm-up runs have been done, we’re now head-first into business and that means out and back from Cedar Brush track head to … Read more
GNW Training Week One – The Somersby to Yarramalong Pain Train
You know that trail running is popular when 13 people turn up for a training run ahead of this year’s biggest trail ultra, the Great North Walk 100 miler. What’s even more staggering about this is that it three times the amount of people who actually finished the race in its first year of operation … Read more
A behind the scenes look at what makes the Salomon International Trail Team tick.
Over the last few months here at Ultra168 we have been following closely the performances by the worlds best athletes at a number of the iconic Ultras and Trail races around the globe. One theme has started to emerge in 2011 (keeping an excited Dan glued to the interwebz and sleepless) and that has been … Read more
Salomon Kilian’s Classik part 2 – Paula Radcliffe prefers trails!
As if the week couldn’t get any better we were informed that an early morning run was to be held up on the high plateau above Font Romeu with the one and only Paula Radcliffe. Excitement and anticipation was tempered with what this may hold for us. Are there any similarities to the way the … Read more
Salomon Kilian’s Classik- One Amazing week in the Pyrenees Part 1
So how did I end up at the equivalent of the “Disneyland of Trail Running” with free access to all the rides? I received a cryptic message during my WS100 planning to see if I was available to be in Europe at the end of June. Anna Frost, world renowned mountain runner and all round … Read more
