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 Co

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

Turned from runner to supporter. For stage 6 normal service was resumed, no course changes. Zernez to Scuol which meant and early depart...

Stage 5, Klosters to Zernez, was shortened by the organisers due to bad weather. Temperatures at high points would have reached -8 with...

Stage 4 VK Stage 4 I realised that it rains here sometimes. Today was the “sprint” day. The VK, vertical kilometre. Which basically means...

No actual pics from today so this one is from the podium yesterday (we won a little bottle of suncream each). Stage 3 Stop me if this is...

TAR Stage 2 Things can quickly feel like there getting on top of you during a multi stage event like this. Keeping on top of admin can be...

TAR day one shenanigans

Photo by Jennifer O'Neill - Rosthwaite This was a biggie. It felt like a long road to get to the start line, and that’s not the bus ride...

There are so many ways to tell this story but I thought I would try and reflect on the race in a way that looks at what I thought my...

This adventure started off with a peculiar van camp somewhere in the backstreets of Paisley followed by an early airport shout for our...

41st one standing, my 75 miler. It’s been over a week since I took part in the Highlander - last one standing event. A backyard ultra...

Smiley face! I don’t have the miles in my legs or the time on feet to really back this up but nonetheless, this weekend I’m heading to...

This coming weekend Anya and I should be crewing for our pal, Tim Darlow along with his wife Kate as he takes on the West Highland Way...

Finally getting around to a blog post-surgery. Post post-surgery follow up, actually. So much has gone on since my last blog in fact that...

I've often wondered about opening this up again, actually just getting it going at all. Now appears to be the time, for the meantime!...

And so begins the next leg, or at least the next knee of this journey. Yesterday. March 14th 2022 I had arthroscopic surgery on my left...

Okay, I'm actually struggling now to remember stage 3. Yesterday (stage 4) left such an impression. Stage 3 The forecast was bad for...

Alright, here we go. I'm currently lying in my bed in the Hostel close to St Anton am Arlberg. We had to walk here. Not from home of...