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British 100km Champion, Lizzy Hawker was featured in an article in the Times on Saturday. Hoping to finish under 2:50 Lizzy came in as Fifth British lady, 16th lady overall with a time of 2:47. Read the rest of this entry »

Martin Ilott, a veterinary surgeon from Windsor,  has embarked on a 3000 mile solo-run from Los Angeles to New York to raise money for Thames Hospicecare.   If successful, he believes he will be the first British runner to complete the run across America unaided.

Martin ’s log book says that he’s in Delta, Nevada after Day 19 of his trip from Huntington Beach, California to Central Park, New York and is not averse to running all-nighters. Tough cookie. I wish Martin well.

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I am writing to you as it may interest you and/or your viewers/readers that a 100 mile race is being held on the 4:th of august in Sweden. Either it may just interest you out of curiosity or maybe someone even wants to run it. If you like you can post a link on your site or forward this to other interested runners.

 

The race consist of one long (marked) loop and is a low key event but has already entrants from 5 different nations. It starts in southern Sweden and has a cut off time of 32 hours – one third of the race is run on the sand. There will be only three aid stations but many possibilities to fill up on water.

 

The website is in English.

 

Thankyou and kind regards

Stefan Samuelsson

http://www.gax100.info.se

Full results of the US 100k National championships

Just across the Channel in October a new trail race is being organised along the coast of Northern France. Read the rest of this entry »

The 2007 US 100km championships in Madison, Wisconsin takes place on Saturday April 7th. With no event last year, some of the big ultrarunning names are up for the challenge including Scott Jurek, Greg Crowther, Roy Pirrung and Carolyn Smith, Ann Heaslett and Julie Udchachon among the ladies. Niki Kimball has had to pull out due to illness. American men must run a qualifying time of 7 hours, 20 minutes and for women - 8 hours, 40 minutes. Read the rest of this entry »

Just posted a calendar of ultra marathons taking place in the UK this year. If anyone has any information on unlisted events, please mail me at mail@ultrarunningworld.co.uk and I’ll be happy to include it.