Lots of racing to catch up on over the weekend and the Internet was burning with armchair warriors, all offering their two cents as to whether Hardrock race leader Xavier Thevenard should have been DQ’ed for taking aid outside of Read More …
Over the course of the last week, there have been a number of articles doing the rounds on the Interwebs regarding the payment of money to the ITRA (International Trail Running Association), to in effect be registered and rated as Read More …
Here at Ultra168, we’re big fans of some of the gnarliest, toughest racing around and Hardrock 100 fits slap bang into that category. The race has a certain allure this year as returning champ from last year, Kilian Jornet is Read More …
With all the hype surrounding Barkley this week and countless threads I’ve read on the Book of Faces about how every Tom, Dick and Harry is going to enter the race next year (yeah right!), I thought it high time Read More …
David Kennedy, one of Australia’s 24hr track representatives and silver medalist at the Commonwealth Games a few years back recently approached us with an idea for a story that looked at races around the world that were impossible or rather Read More …
2012 comes to a close and we hope to spend time with family and friends over the holiday season we thought we would look back on what has been an epic year in the world of trail and ultra running. Read More …
I distinctly remember the moment that I witnessed the hold the Hardrock 100 race can have over people – we were sitting down to dinner at this years Transvulcania Ultra on the island of La Palma and Anton Krupicka was Read More …
Hardrock 100 This weekend the lottery to select runners for the 2012 Hardrock 100 will take place and can be followed live on twitter (@hardrock100) The race is run over the weekend of July 13-15 2012 this race makes grown Read More …
“Once you run, it gets in your blood and you want more” This is a phrase I’m sure a lot of us running ultra marathons can associate with, and is how Andy Hewat, known as ‘Whippet’ to his friends views Read More …
