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Race Director Pam Storey has the entry form available for next years Crawley 6 & 12 Hour Races which take place Saturday March the 29th 2008.

Entry Form

The Bullock Smithy 56 mile race results are available on the site. Care and attention to detail has gone into the presentation in various formats and several statistics for those who are interested.

Race winners were Andy Pead (8:59) and Joanna Miles (12:29). The last finisher was Sean Maguinness who completed the distance in 24:33, a remarkable achievement for all concerned.

 The Bullock Smithy Results Index

Japan finished first and second in the 100km Champioships with Shinichi Watanabe the outright winner in 6:23:21, some 7 minutes ahead of second placed Kenji Nakanishi. Third, fourth and fifth places went to Russia.

In the ladies race, Japan’s Norimi Sakurai set a new womens world record with 7:00:27 well ahead of second place Laurence Fricotteaux of France who finished 7:26:44. Just behind in third place was another Japanese runner, Hiroko Sho in 7:27:12.

British representative Jez Bragg ran well in the Netherlands at this years 100km Championships to finish 18th in 7:03: 12, slightly better than his 7:04:46 performance at the UK Championships earlier this year. Paul Harwood finished in 31st place with 7:23:38 and Matthew Lunas finished in 8:03.

In the Ladies race Adele Salt ran well to finish 11th in 7:54:21.

Full results available at Runwinschoten.nl/

The JW Ultra - 30 miles plus 3×10 mile relay. Takes Along the Stratford-upon-Avon canal to Bournville in South Birmingham.

Held in conjunction with Ultrarunner.co.uk.

Entry forms available here

After running in New Yorks 3100 mile race all summer, I will be resuming the news and updates on the site.

Just discovered a new UK list of ultras at "Lifes an ultramarathon" which lists 52 ultras and was last updated on July the 10th so is current. The calendar on UW will shortly be updated.

Life’s an ultramarathon

John Kennedy won the Devil ‘o the Highlands  race in 6:31 last weekend and ladies winner was Helen Johnson with 7:07, fifth overall.

Visit the Devilothehighlandsfootrace.co.uk/ for full results which are available in either Excel or pdf format.

Next weekend sees the start of the 43 mile Devil o’ the Highlands in Tyndrum, on the course of the West Highland Way . 68 people have signed up and entries for this years race are now closed.  The 2008 Application form will be available for download from 1st July 2007.

Checkout the great site and the 3d map/video of the route at Devil o’ the Highlands

Last weekends race on Dartmoor was a victory for the Royal Navy AC taking first, second and fifth places with Brian Cole finishing with the honours. First lady home was Heather-Foundling Hawker, fully recovered from her Self-Transcendence 100km championship in Edinburgh 2 weeks ago - finishing almost an hour ahead of second place lady, Linda Cummins.

Full results are available on www.tamartrotters.co.uk

Dean Karnazes is hosting an event sponsored by North Face. Prize money is being awarded to the top male and female runners in a series of four regional 50 mile races leading to a championship at the end of November beginning of Dececmber in San Francisco where the prize will be 10k.

This is a significant attempt to raise the profile of ultrarunning and to attract the best runners the US has right now.

http://www.thenorthface.com/endurancechallenge/

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