27-Nov-20

Black Friday deals for ultra runners

By Sarah Cooke

Sarah puts together some great Black Friday deals for you.

18-Nov-20

Lockdown boredom-busters for ultra runners

By Sarah Cooke

With many countries back in lockdown and few opportunities to race or train with other runners, we had a look at what’s coming up this month. Here is a selection of running related events that you can enjoy from home.

02-Nov-20

The Outdoor Friendly Pledge and Sustainable Sport

By Sarah Cooke

At RunUltra, we are keen to engage with initiatives that help protect the environment we run in, so I decided to find out what Outdoor Friendly, new project created by Kilian Jornet, is all about. 

26-Feb-20

Inside Kilian Jornet

This new documentary from Lymbus follows Kilian as he does a round the world tour doing presentations, interviews and brand commitments

15-Apr-19

Ragna and Rachid take the top spots at the Marathon Des Sables

By Dan Stinton

Since Cactus finished stage 3 of the Marathon Des Sables, he’s caused quite a stir on social media and had even managed to obtain his own tracker to allow his fans to keep an eye on his progress for the later stages of the race.

09-Apr-19

Pawfect finish at the Marathon Des Sables

By Dan Stinton

Four legs are better than two, right? It seems that the on-going Marathon Des Sables (MdS) has gained a rogue entrant when a dog decided to show us humans how to get through a multi-stage ultra. We also update you on the human entrants so far.

03-Apr-19

Another year with no finishers at the Barkley Marathons

By Dan Stinton

It’s been a great few days as my Twitter feed has taken on a new life during the Barkley Marathons.

29-Mar-19

214 Peak Wainwright Record Attempt by Paul Tierney

By Dan Stinton

If you ever needed to put graphene through its paces, then bagging a few Wainwrights wearing inov-8 Terraultra G 260’s may be the ideal test.  By “a few” Wainwrights, I mean all 214 of them.

27-Mar-19

The Barkley Marathons – And so it begins

By Dan Stinton

The Barkley Marathons.  Where do you even start? Quite literally by an iconic yellow gate in Frozen Head State Park in Tennessee, one hour after the blowing of the conch and officially once race director Gary “Lazarus Lake” Cantrell lights a cigarette.

26-Mar-19

1000 miles in Alaska at the Iditarod Trail Invitational

by Dan Stinton

Just as we’re easing into spring here in the UK, our thoughts are turning towards lighter evenings, warmer trail running and sipping G&Ts by the BBQ.  But before we get into that, let’s take a look at what happened on the lower end of the temperature scale at the Iditarod Trail Invitational (ITI) over the last… well… month!