Photos are a mixture of our own and ones from the Highlander Backyard FB group – thanks Rocket Events and the marshals 🙏 An amazing, well organised, low key, no nonsense event with fantastic people – the marshals and volunteers give their all and make it one of the best Backyards I have been to.Continue reading “The Highlander Backyard Ultra 2025”
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Interview: Aimee & Paul
Can’t believe it’s been over a year since our last Miles Together interview 😱 Too long! Anyway, we hope you’ll agree this one was worth the wait. A couple of months ago Julie completed the Cardiff to London Ultra and along the way she met Aimee and Paul who were simply the best checkpoint crewContinue reading “Interview: Aimee & Paul”
Suffolk Backyard Ultra 2025
Well after returning home from Suffolk BYU I slept most of the next 48 hours, hopefully speeding up my recovery from whatever virus I had been fighting for the previous ten days. It ended up being three weeks before I finally felt myself again, making me even more certain that stopping when I did wasContinue reading “Suffolk Backyard Ultra 2025”
Cape Wrath Ultra 2025
Photos credits: (1) No Limits Photography (2) David Siska (3) the Taylor family (4) Pam Nix (5) Gavin Davies Where to even start with this one? What an absolute epic of a race – it was everything I imagined and more. Completing the Cape Wrath Ultra was the culmination of a three year journey startingContinue reading “Cape Wrath Ultra 2025”
Cardiff to London Ultra 2025
Well it’s a couple of weeks after Cardiff to London and I finally have time to sit down to finish writing a full race report. Cardiff to London was a race of two halves with the first half to Goring going really well and the second half a limp to the finish (well a fastContinue reading “Cardiff to London Ultra 2025”
Preparing for the Cape Wrath Ultra
Note: this post contains Amazon affiliate links Cape Wrath Ultra is an epic adventure race covering 250 miles of the North Western Highlands of Scotland, starting in Fort William and finishing at the iconic Cape Wrath Lighthouse on the most Northwesterly point of mainland Scotland. It’s been on my bucket list for many years (IContinue reading “Preparing for the Cape Wrath Ultra”
Gore-Tex Shoes – Salomon Sense Ride 5 GTX
This article contains Amazon Affiliate links – any items purchased from these links help to support the blog, at no additional cost to you! I’ve written before about my all-time favourite shoes – the Salomon Sense Ride. Recently I ordered another pair of them so I had a fresh pair ready for Cape Wrath UltraContinue reading “Gore-Tex Shoes – Salomon Sense Ride 5 GTX”
Borders Abbeys Way – Run The Borders 2024
This was always a bad idea from the very beginning… when Breaking Strain (organisers of Run The Blades) announced they were putting on a race on the Borders Abbeys Way I signed up almost immediately. As the only one of Scotland’s Great Trails to pass through my home town of Selkirk, it had been onContinue reading “Borders Abbeys Way – Run The Borders 2024”
Pig on the Hill Backyard Ultra 2024
What an epic race that was! But to properly tell the story we need to go back more than a year to June 2023 and as it was then called, the Lionsgate Backyard Ultra. I had gone there as part of Team Scotland, with high expectations after winning God’s Own Backyard Ultra 2022 and madeContinue reading “Pig on the Hill Backyard Ultra 2024”
Interview: Burton & Dixon
Due to injury, I unfortunately had to defer my Cape Wrath Ultra entry to 2025. However, with the time already booked off work and inlaws visiting to help with child care, I was fortunate enough to be able to volunteer on the event team for a second time. While it was obviously a shame notContinue reading “Interview: Burton & Dixon”