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...

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