Oldies Ultras

2025 Montane Spine Race: 12-16 January 2025 “Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big...

2024 Tor des Géants: 8-14 September 2024 “Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends Mm, I get high with a little help from my...

2024 Winter Spine Challenger South: 13-14 January 2024   “You can't cry 'cause you'll look broke down But you're cryin' anyway 'cause...

Dragon's Back Race, 4-9 September 2023 “Dragons are fire made flesh.” “Not all men were meant to dance with dragons.” George R. R....

Lavaredo Ultra Trail 120km: 23 June 2023 "Hang on a minute, lads, I've got a great idea" https://www.strava.com/activities/9326832405 ...

Ultra Trail Snowdonia 100 mile: 12 May 2023 “Beautiful beyond belief. Savage beyond reason.” Yeah, right. That’s what all ultras say … I...

2023 Istria 100 by UTMB Blue Course: 15 April 2023 It’s been 30 years since I last visited Croatia – back when Croatia was still part of...

2022 Montane Cheviot Goat: 3 December 2022 A happy Goat at the end of the race The Cheviot Goat has been described as “deep bodied, with...

“He one spinal cracker He got feet down below his knee” Come Together, The Beatles Entering the 2021 Summer Spine race was definitely a...

Ask anyone internationally about multi-day ultramarathons and the chances are, if they are able to name any of them, they will mention...

South Downs 45k, BigWayRound 50k and Bewl Water 60k Ultras After finishing the 300k Northern Traverse (NT) in early April, and with the...

2022 Silva Northern Traverse: 2-4 April 2022 Pre-Race There is something special about Coast-to-Coast races. Something about the fact...

2022 Humanity Direct Amersham 50k / 30 miles: 5 March 2022 “Race your strengths, train your weaknesses”. Following last month’s Pilgrim...

2022 Pilgrim Challenge 106km / 66 miles: 5-6 February 2022 Pre-Race The Pilgrim Challenge, organised by XNRG events, is a race that I...

2022 Montane Winter Spine Challenger North: 9-11 January 2022 In 1702, the Japanese poet Matsuo Basho’s most famous work, The Narrow Road...

Pre-Race The Sunrise Ultra is a race that has intrigued me for the last couple of years – run in the middle of December, it starts at...

Pre-Race I signed up for the Yorkshire 3 Peaks Ultra while I was still feeling flush after finishing the Summer Spine Race at the end of...

Pre-Race With the race starting in Edale at 4pm on a Saturday, the first thing a ‘Spiner’ has to do is to think about logistics before...