Trail running to explore the unbeaten path
What is a run streak? The general consensus seems to indicate that a run streak is when you run a minimum of 1.61 kilometers (1 mile) every day. The streak continues as long as you don’t miss a day. Miss a day and your run streak counter returns back to zero. I have always thought … Read more
Our “Fastpacking the TMB in 5 days” journey started at Les Houche. This post covers our adventure on TMB Day 1 Les Houches to Refuge de la Balme. We flew in to Geneva from Bristol airport the day before, and stayed overnight in Gîte Michel Fagot, just a few steps away from the official starting … Read more
For a couple of years now I have in the back of my head had the goal of running a sub 24 hour 100 mile race. The other part of that goal was for it to be on the trail, and be moderately hilly too. Fitting the race into my schedule Around 8 weeks ago … Read more
Kilometer 317 of 322 km had just ticked over. I was in the final leg of the beastly Wild Horse 200 South Wales race). Having just barely evaded a bad case of hyponotremia (16km earlier), I now found myself in an adrenalin induced ‘sprint finish’. Somehow I was running the fastest splits of the entire … Read more
Last year I was invited to join 3 friends on an adventure of a lifetime – fastpacking the TMB over 5 days. Having spent time in Courmayeur last year, hiking and running the trails around there, fastpacking the TMB quickly became a bucket list item for me. It was a massive coincidence and simultaneous blessing … Read more
The Rollin’ 100 is a newly introduced one hundred mile ultra marathon (Runningmonk Trail Events), taking place in and around the hills of Shropshire, a county which borders both England and Wales. 2025 was the event’s inaugural year, and I was really excited to run it, not having run in these hills before. However earlier … Read more
Over the past year or so, whilst browsing various running-related subreddits (online communities on the reddit.com website), I’ve noted a number of recipes for home made running gels and nutrition that I wanted to try to make for myself. Recently I noticed the lifetime spend on my xmiles account (the place I order most of … Read more
In March, earlier this year I was noticing some discomfort in my right leg, near the soleus calf muscle. Most of the time it would be half way into a run, and it seemed more prominent when doing longer hill climbs. Soon after arriving back in Wales, I went for a tempo paced trail run … Read more
Recently I spent a weekend in Baviaanskloof, located in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. It is also host to the Leopard Trail, a multi-day hiking trail that I decided to explore in part by running. I took my camera along to showcase some of the views and features. Note: this post is a transcript from … Read more
We recently did an overnight trip with the kids, paddling up Keurbooms river from the coast to ‘Whiskey Creek Cabin’. Keurbooms river (Keurboomsrivier as its also known in Afrikaans) is in the Western Cape, South Africa. It flows in a roughly South-east direction, with it’s outlet feeding into the Indian Ocean near the coastal town … Read more