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London Ultra Duathlon 2010

ultrarun — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:21:33 +0000

Sunday 12 September 2010 sees the London Duathlon, the world’s largest duathlon event, launch a new Ultra Duathlon distance that will serve athletes interested in ultra distance running. The 20km, 80km, 10km events will be part of the existing Challenge and Fun distance events for the London Duathlon which takes place in Richmond Park.

Download the information booklet on the London Duathlon website

Montane Scottish Ultra Marathon Series (SUMS)

ultrarun — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:47:40 +0000

An exciting new Ultramarathon series has just been finalised, The Scottish Ultra Marathon Series (SUMS) sponsored by Montane. Organised by Murdo MacDonald, the Race Director of the Highland Fling,

6th March Glasgow – Edinburgh Double Marathon – 56 m – www.resoluteevents.co.uk
3rd April – Deeside Way Ultra – 33m – Deesidewayultra.webnode.com
24th April Montane Highland Fling Race – 53 – www.highlandflingrace.org
15th May Cateran Trail Ultramarathon – 55m – Cateran55ultra.webnode.com
19th June West Highland Way Race – 95m – www.westhighlandwayrace.org
17th July “Clyde Stride” – Clyde Walkway Race – 40m – clydestride.webnode.com
7th August Devil o’ the Highlands – 43m – www.devilothehighlandsfootrace.co.uk
28th August Speyside Way Race – 35m – Speysidewayrace.webnode.com
18th September River Ayr Way Challenge – 44m – www.theriverayrway.org

Full details at:www.sumschampionship.org/

Cotswold 35.2 Mile Challenge & Marathon 2010

ultrarun — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:17:48 +0000

Sunday March 21st 2010 Start time 10.00am
Run the majesty of the beautiful Cotswold countryside.
Entry fee for 35 Miles road or Marathon (7 hours time limit applies)
£25:00 for UKA affiliated clubs and £27.00 for unaffiliated
Entry closing date 14 March 2010
N.B. Marathon has race limit of 250 and entries close when this limit is reached
”Start and finish at Temple Guiting Village Hall GL54 5RT.
Changing and toilets available at race HQ

Website:www.beyondthelimitations.co.uk

Ultrarunning World Magazine

ultrarun — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:34:41 +0000

It is now possible to order a printed copy of Ultrarunning World magazine online at Magcloud. Delivery takes from 3-10 days depending on the shipping options you choose.

I am offering this edition for free in honour of Sri Chinmoy who supported my idea and who inspired my ultrarunning life. However the printing and shipping are not free and the production cost set by Magcloud is the cover price. The shipping is extra so the basic price is $6.80, just over £4:00

Ultrarunning World Vol. 1

ultrarun — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:05:45 +0000

I am very excited to announce the publication of the first edition of Ultrarunning World magazine. Plus its available as a free download. It has been over 2.5 years languishing on my wish list of things to do and now its done. A new journey has begun.
In 2004 I made a small black and white magazine called Multiday Running of which I produced 5 editions, though the 5th magazine only had 10-20 copies printed and due to my nomadic lifestyle at the time in 2006 I had the desire to make a colour magazine but I wanted it to include ultras as well as multidays and so Ultrarunning World website was born as a vehicle to support that endeavour.
My circumstances changed in such a way that I was unable to get it together to put the time and effort in to making it happen yet I have still been soliciting material from the community somehow believing that a day would come when the elements would finally come together.

Today I feel a lot closer to that goal as the pdf is ready to print when I can raise the money for the printing,
if there is enough demand. However that will not be free. Estimated price is £3-3:50 for Europeans.

For now, as this material is from 2007, I am happy to offer Ultrarunning World magazine as a pdf for free. The next edition will have current calendars as well as some fresh news and articles written over the last 2 years.
I welcome any input that is relevant and appropriate to the ultrarunning world.

Please send an email if you would like to order a printed copy to: mail@multidays.com

UltraRunning World Contents:

Ultrarunning World Contents
Barry 40 – Mick McGeoch
The Highland Fling – Murdo MacDonald
Run Across America – Martin Illot
Uno In Brno – Tony Mangan
Seven Days in the Swiss Jura – Kris Whorton
The North Face Ultra-Trail Tour du Mont-Blanc – Aisling Coppinger
Ultra Athletes Grapple Arctic Front – Jessica Simon
Discovering the Goal – William Sichel
Motivation: Differences between a 5k and an ultra – Neil Cook

Contribute
If you would like to contribute to the magazine in any way from the production side to the content or advertising please send email to mail@ultraruningworld.co.uk.

Many thanks.

Great Glen Death March 2010

ultrarun — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:24:54 +0000

The inaugural Great Glen Death Marchwill take place April 3rd- 4th in 2010. This 100km 24hour endurance challenge will cross Scotland from Banavie to Inverness following the Great Glen Way. Limited places.

Full full details on requirements and fees visit Ultramarathon.org.uk

The event organisers have also set up a new entity – The Ultramarathon Running Club which can also be joined on the site or by post. Details at the link above.

The White Horse Relay 2010

ultrarun — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:21:57 +0000

New event for 2010 -a 14 stage relay race around the 8 visible White Horses in Wiltshire is set to take place September the 5th 2010. Starting and finishing at the Cherhill White Horse this event will cover approximately 75 mile,120km, Teams of 7-10 runners will take stages varying from 1.9-10 miles.

Entry Fees – £70 per team.
Closing date for entries: 22nd August 2010. Limit: 20 teams. There will be no entries on the day.

Visitwww.whitehorserelay.org/ for registration and more details.

New UK Based Running Podcast Site

ultrarun — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:46:04 +0000

Running and Life is a new monthly, UK-based podcast site about running that gives a new opportunity for runners to share their experiences online.

In the first issue, Sri Chinmoy AC member Mark Collinson talks about his first 24 hour race at the recent Self-Transcendence 24 hour race in Tooting Bec, London. Mark ran 112 miles on his debut and lived to talk about how it went.

Also featured in the podcast is Eddie Izzard, fresh from his 1000 mile, marathon a day run around the UK raising money for Sports Relief.

Visit Running and Life.co.uk/

Self-Transcendence 24 Hour Race Tooting Bec 2009 update

ultrarun — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:01:29 +0000

With 2 hours to go in the Self-Transcendence 24 hour race in Tooting Bec, South London, Richard Quennell,on 130 miles, has eased into a 4 mile lead ahead of Paul Hart who has been nursing a niggling groin injury but is hanging on to second place. Third placed John O’Regan has a couple of miles on fourth placed newcomer Neil Bryant.

Aileen Scot, 105 miles, is maintaining a small cushion over Elizabeth Karlsson.

Checkout the details on Sri Chinmoy Races.org

Tooting Bec Self-transcendence 24 Hour Race 2009

ultrarun — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:04:18 +0000

Less than a week to go before the Self-Transcendence 24 hour race taking place at the Tooting Bec Track in South London. Race director Shankara Smith says that the race has been sold out for weeks despite the recent 24 hour/100km Commonwealth Championships.

So who’s coming? Well, a new crop of 13 or 14 first timers, home-grown experience like Ken Fancett, Carl Sommer, treadmill world record holder Lee Chamberlain and 11 runners from abroad including Reima Hartikainen, Ken Fancett, Per Audun Heskestad, Nitish Zuidema.The race starts at 12 noon on Saturday.

Hopefully this year there will be updates posted on the site during the race. More information will be posted before the start of the race.

Tom Meldrun has a blog called Beyond the Marathon and has posted about his preparations

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The Self-Transcendence 24 hour race was founded in 1989 by Ongkar Tony Smith, the owner of Run and Become who passed away in February 2006 under the auspices of the Sri Chinmoy A.C., the UK branch of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team.

Sri Chinmoy was a spiritual teacher who loved sport since his youth and was a decathlete champion at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in India before moving to New York in 1964. He began teaching his philosophy and gathered a small group of students through the 70’s and formed the Sri Chinmoy Marathon team in 1977 which hosted its first marathon and half marathon in 1979. The first 24 hour race took place in Greenwich, CT in the USA and in 1985 the SCMT hosted their first 1000 mile race and later on that same year, a 5 five day race and so began the story of the largest hosts of ultramarathons in the world.