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Ultrarunning

April 2024

  • Russ Cook running

    Aches, pains and new goals: what next for ‘hardest geezer’ Russ Cook after Africa run

  • Russ Cook

    ‘Hardest Geezer’ Russ Cook enjoys a day off running after epic Africa journey

March 2024

  • Jasmin Paris, photographed in 2019

    British ultrarunner Jasmin Paris is first woman to finish Barkley Marathons

  • Camille Herron on the sixth day of the FURTHER event.

    Naps, tacos and 11 world records: how Camille Herron ran 560 miles in six days

December 2023

  • Wally Hesseltine has run 180 ultramarathons, broken his pelvis in a skiing accident, his nose in a fall, and tore a rotator cuff … and keeps on ticking.

    ‘Ten-minute miles are the new eight’: the senior ultrarunners pushing the envelope

    Not only are more runners doing ultramarathons in their seventies and eighties, they’re also going faster

October 2023

  • Italy's Antonio di Manno, Singapore's Joshua Toh, the Philippines' Jivee Tolentino, the United States' Harvey Lewis and Jon Noll, and Belgium's Ivo Steyaert and Matthias Pelgrims, from left, run at sunrise on day four of the 2023 Backyard Ultra World Championship in Bell Buckle, Tennessee.

    Ultrarunner Harvey Lewis reaches the end of Lazarus Lake’s endless backyard

    Harvey Lewis, a 47-year-old Ohio ultramarathoner, won the last-man-standing Big Dog’s Backyard Ultra race after running the approximate distance between San Francisco and LA

June 2023

  • Courtney Dauwalter and Tom Evans celebrate in separate pictures after crossing the finish line

    Dauwalter smashes Western States ultramarathon record by 78 minutes

    Courtney Dauwalter smashed the course record at Western States ultramarathon, while Britain’s Tom Evans won the men’s event

April 2023

  • Trail runner in colourful clothes and a running vest

    If you can walk on it, you can run on it: a beginner’s guide to trail running

    More meditative and less repetitive than road running, trail running offers fitness with a view. And the chances of injury are lower than you might expect

January 2023

  • Australian ultra-marathon runner Erchana Murray-Bartlett, running along a boardwalk near the coast on a sunny day. She is wearing blue shorts and a bright multicoloured top

    ‘I don’t want this to end’: runner hits Melbourne after covering length of Australia in 150 consecutive marathons

    Erchana Murray-Bartlett reaches end of epic journey from ‘tip to toe’ of Australia – smashing women’s record for consecutive daily marathons

November 2022

  • On top of the world: a racer undertaking the Ultra tour du Mont Blanc with a distance of 166km and a total elevation gain of around 9,600m. The fastest runners will complete it in under 24 hours.

    Running the Mont Blanc ultra, the world’s most famous trail race

    With its dizzying ridges and stunning views, Mont Blanc is home to some of the world’s best trail running
  • Kevin Sinfield running

    ‘A run for a mate’: Kevin Sinfield’s seven ultramarathons in seven days

    Rugby league great honours former teammate Rob Burrow on day two of his challenge in aid of MND charities
  • Australian Champion 24-hour mountain biker Jess Douglas turns to a different form of ultra trail exploration running up Mt Abrupt in the Grampians, Australia.

    ‘An inordinate impact’: climate crisis leaves its footprint on trail running

    Trail running events have rapidly expanded in the last decade but extreme weather is casting a shadow on the sport

September 2022

  • Rob Burrow and Kevin Sinfield

    Kevin Sinfield to run seven ultramarathons in seven days for MND

    Former rugby league star Kevin Sinfield will run seven ultra marathons in seven days to raise money for motor neurone disease

August 2022

  • Rescuers at site where runners died in north-west China

    Weatherwatch
    How hyper-local forecasts can improve safety on mountains

    New models explain conditions that led to 21 runners dying at China event, and could help improve accuracy of future forecasts

July 2022

  • Laurence Brophy

    Other lives
    Laurence Brophy obituary

    Other lives: Community worker and fundraiser in South Wales who ran ultra-marathons in the Sahara and Atacama deserts in his late 70s

June 2022

  • The Barkley Marathons course winds through wild terrain and it is easy for participants to lose their way

    The Barkley Marathons: the hellish 100-mile race with 15 finishers in 36 years

    Participants in the Tennessee race must negotiate extreme temperatures, wild terrain and more than 50,000 feet of accumulated ascent

May 2022

  • John Kelly running in the forest

    John Kelly breaks record for scaling all 214 Wainwright fells in the Lake District

    37-year-old data scientist completed feat many walkers see as a lifetime challenge in five and a half days

September 2021

  • Rescuers walk into the accident site where 21 ultrarunners died in north-west China’s Gansu province.

    Weatherwatch
    Weatherwatch: how forecasting played role in ultramarathon disaster

    Safety warnings were not issued before tragedy in which 21 runners died in Gansu, China

August 2021

  • Rescue workers at the site of the accident where extreme cold killed participants of a 100km ultramarathon race in Gansu province, China, on 22 May 22 2021

    Today in Focus
    Revisited: the danger – and beauty – of ultrarunning

    After 21 competitors died during a 100km mountain race in Gansu province earlier this year, the Chinese government suspended all extreme sports. But those who love ultrarunning insist it can be safe – and has changed how they see the world. What keeps them coming back?

July 2021

  • Competitors run in the Badwater Ultramarathon in Death Valley National Park, California July 15, 2013. The 135-mile (217 km) race, which bills itself as the world’s toughest foot race, goes from Death Valley to Mt. Whitney, California in temperatures which can reach 130 degrees Fahrenheit (55 Celsius). REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (UNITED STATES - Tags: SPORT ATHLETICS ENVIRONMENT) :rel:d:bm:GF2E97G0IL901 FTA

    ‘They’re a little crazy’: the ultramarathon runners crossing Death Valley – in a drought

    A hundred runners are picked each year for the 135-mile race. This time the climate was especially brutal
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