A RUNNING JOURNEY

To start with, The Beara Way Ultra 100 miles came highly recommended by both Eoin Keith and Brian Hutchinson, and after looking at pictures and reading stories from past events I have to say it did look good. On top of that, last year’s (I’m including January 2026) running escapades for me featured a few DNFs and I really wanted something to enjoy. The Beara Way Ultra is a low key event organised by the Irish Mountain Running Association (IMRA) and takes place over in west Cork. It’s a...

Castletownbere. Today. Here we go, heading over to Cork for a crack at the Beara Way Ultra - 100miles around the Beara peninsula. Its been a while since I’ve written and a lot has been going on, I won’t go into the details right now but life has had some twists and turns. Running and training-wise, since DNF-ing at the TransAlpine Run I took on the winter spine challenger north, also DNF-ing in Alston. This was following a ridiculous number of falls before I thought it might be a good idea to...