In this month’s column we bring you news from a historic race in France, the last race of the grand slam in the UK and the final race of the Ultra Trail World Tour series. Les Templiers Millau, France was the setting...
Articles by Ian Campbell
In this month’s column, we bring you news from Europe and Asia from the Skyrunning Ultra and the Ultra Trail World Tour series. Ultra Pirineu The world Skyrunning Ultra series concluded its 2015 season in Spain at th...
UTMB On a warm Chamonix evening, 2,300 runners assembled for the thirteenth edition of the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc. There are usually many who run the first five miles to Les Houches at a sprint, and this year was no...
In this month’s column, we bring you news from Europe from the Eiger Ultra; the UK’s classic mountain race Ultra Trail Lake District; Norway’s latest SkyRace, Tromso; and an exciting UK trail race along an ancient pilgri...
MONT BLANC 80K On Friday, June 26th , the Mont Blanc 80K took place in Chamonix, France. It can only be described as a tough mountainous race with a total of 19,000 feet of climbing, not for the faint-hearted. In one of...
This month we have news from all corners of the globe, including the legendary Comrades ultra road marathon in South Africa. The North Face 100 – Australia A strong field of International and southern hemisphere runn...
TRANSVULCANIA The Canary island of La Palma was the incredible setting for the opening race of the 2015 Sky Runner World Series, the Transvulcania ultramarathon. It’s a 73 km-long trail of volcanic sand and lava rocks t...
Tarawera 100K The UTWT series moved from Asia to Australasia (New Zealand) for the second race in 2015 in early February. Tarawera is a 100k point-to-point trail race on mostly single-track through native bush and fores...
ULTRA TRAIL WORLD TOUR (UTWT) Many of you will have heard about the UTWT that was established in late 2013 with a series of races in 2014, but what is it all about? The concept is to bring some of the worlds most iconic...