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Rasselbock Backyard Ultra 2025

Let’s just say we had an absolute blast at Rasselbock this year. After Julie ran there in 2024 we knew […]

Julie & Iain / 21 February 2025

It’s said that running an ultra is 90% physical, and the other 90% is mental! However you choose to do

Julie & Iain / 31 December 2024

We’re writing our 2024 year-end post from the comfortable position of taking a little bit of a break. Both of

Iain Bethune / 2 December 2024

Winter has definitely arrived over the last two weeks… we’ve had several days of sub-zero temperatures, 24 hours of slushy

Julie & Iain / 1 November 2024

As we sit down to start writing this, we’ve now had two full night’s sleep and been home for over

Iain Bethune / 11 October 2024

Julie uses all different kinds of shoes – Brooks, Scarpa, Salomon, Altra, Hoka (many different models) – and when she

Iain Bethune / 29 September 2024

This was always a bad idea from the very beginning… when Breaking Strain (organisers of Run The Blades) announced they

What an epic race that was! But to properly tell the story we need to go back more than a

June 2025 update – we are now offering coaching services, so if you want our support with your own training,

Iain Bethune / 3 February 2024

This isn’t a complete route per se but more of an interesting place to run that can easily be visited