Spartathlon 2019 – The Short Version I left the Acropolis as the sun was starting to come up on Friday morning. I ran through the streets of Athens and then…

Ever since I ran my Sparta auto-qualifier at Crawley 24 hours last year, 2019 was going to be all about Spartathlon. The Build-Up I’ve always been in the quality over…

If I’m being honest, I’m pretty lazy when it comes to racing as I’m quite an unsociable runner and prefer to run early in the morning on my own –…

Day 4 The long day is always my favourite day of multi-day racing. The main thing for me is to get to the long stage feeling good and with lots…

Day 1 One of the hardest things for me to get used to at AAUT was the late race starts, I’m a total morning person and normally run at 5am…

I love multi-day races (or ‘active holidays’ as I like to call them) and so far they’ve taken me to Jordan, Ecuador, the Atacama Desert, Patagonia and Bhutan. My first…

Last year I ran my first 24 hour race, Crawley 24 hours. It was 24 hours of pure running joy and I loved every single minute of it. And the…

There are many reasons why I was never going to run Spartathlon: It’s a long way (153 miles). There’s a bloody mountain at 100 miles. Yes that’s right, after running…

This is the blog that I never thought I’d write. Not because I think I’m some amazing runner who is above DNFing. But because DNF just doesn’t feature in my…