Done · 2026
Ultra X Madeira
Madeira, Portugal110 km over two stages
Called off at the final checkpoint for weather.
ResultUnofficial 10th overall
Trained for it in Snowdonia, and with laps of Greenwich Park in full race kit.
Trails
The trails and races I’ve run, and the ones I’ve entered. The best views are in the most remote places, and the training is what gets me there.
8 done2 entered
Done 8
Newest first.
Done · 2022 and 2025
Dragon’s Back Race
Wales, Conwy to Cardiff380 km over six days
First attempt 2022: didn’t finish. Back in 2025, and finished.
Result87th of 278 · 86:00:40Full results ↗ · 2022 results ↗
Bonkers hard, as the event director put it, and I still can’t quite believe I got through. In the end it came down to being in the moment and not looking at my watch. Knowing how far I’d come would have told me how far I still had to go, and that would have broken me.
Done · 2025
Serpent Trail 75k
South Downs, England75 km
Result6th of 105, 3rd man · 7:52:37Full results ↗
A surprise. I ran it as a B race to prepare for the Dragon’s Back and didn’t expect to be competitive.
Done · 2022 to 2025
Great Lakeland 3Day
Lake District, EnglandA range of courses each day
Three days in the Lakeland fells. Each morning you choose your course from a range of distances, so every day is a choose-your-own-adventure. The event is taking a pause in 2026.
Entered 2
Soonest first.
Entered · 3 to 4 April 2027
Lakes Traverse
Lake District, England, St Bees to Shap100 km
Getting some quality time in the Lake District, and part of my preparation for Ultra X South Africa later in the year.
Entered · 2027
Ultra X South Africa, Max
Western Cape, South AfricaAbout 330 km over six stages
Entry asks for your race history. I put down the Dragon’s Back, and that was enough.
Saturday mornings 37
37 parkruns
parkrun
Thames Path, Woolwich, and Piggly Wiggly, South Africa5 km
Where I go for a small dose of competition, and to benchmark where I am in my training.
| Date | Event | Time | Place | Age grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Oct 2026 | Thames Path, Woolwich | 19:42 | 2nd of 256 | 72.00% |
| 29 Aug 2026 | Piggly Wiggly, South Africa | 22:21 | 1st of 169 | 63.46% |
| 22 Aug 2026 | Thames Path, Woolwich | 19:08 | 7th of 297 | 74.13% |
Thames Path best 18:53 · My Strava ↗All my parkrun results ↗
Road halves 4
4 halves
Road half marathons
Hilton, Luxembourg, Dublin and Brussels21.1 km
Three city halves in Europe in 2014 and 2015, then a long gap. I needed something really scary to train for, and that’s when I spotted the Dragon’s Back to get me back into serious training mileage.
| Date | Race | Time | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Jan 2026 | Hilton Harriers Half, KZN | 1:37:20 | 25th overall, undulating course |
| Aug 2015 | Rock ’n’ Roll Dublin | Not recorded | Tough on minimal training |
| 30 May 2015 | ING Night Marathon Luxembourg (half) | About 1:35 | Night race, minimal training |
| 5 Oct 2014 | Belfius Brussels Half | About 1:31 | Top 1,000, just off a sub-90 |
Hilton is my watch time; the older ones are from memoryMy Strava ↗
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