
Below is list of all the blog posts that have been published at Ultraboyruns.com and organised into categories
Ultra Marathon Race Reviews
- Ambleside 60
- Amersham Ultra
- Ben Vorlich Ultra
- Brutal Enduro
- CCC
- Challenge Hub 24
- Country to Capital 2014
- Country to Capital 2016
- Dawn ’til Dusk
- Endure 1250
- Escape from Meriden
- Falkirk Ultra
- Green Man Ultra
- Haria Extreme
- High Weald 50
- Jedburgh Three Peaks
- Marlborough Downs Way
- MIUT
- Mouth to Mouth
- National 50
- Nocturnal
- North Downs Way 100 (Volunteer)
- Ochil Ultra
- Pennine Bridleway 55km
- Ranscombe Challenge
- Ranscombe Challenge
- Ranscombe Challenge & Ramble
- Ridgeway Challenge
- Saltmarsh 75
- SainteLyon 2015
- SainteLyon 2017
- Silkin Way Ultra
- Skye Trail Ultra
- South Downs Way 50
- South Wales 50
- St Peter’s Way
- Testway Ultra
- Thames Gateway 100
- Thames Path 100
- The Wall
- Tweed Valley Ultra
- Twilight Ultra
- Tyndrum 24
- Vegan Day Challenge
- Ultra North
- Ultra Scotland 50
- Ultra Trail Scotland
- UTBCN
- White Cliffs 50
- White Peaks 50km
- WNWA 96
- Yorkshire Three Peaks Ultra
Marathon Race Reviews
- Darnley Challenge
- East Hanningfield Marathon
- Fowlmead Challenge
- Hockley Trail Challenge
- Kent Roadrunner
- Mince Pi: a race of 2 decimal places
- Run Wimbledon
- Snowdonia
- Solway Coast
- Thames Meander
- Vanguard Way
Race Reviews
- Bewl 15
- Blast Running Santa Dash
- Brands Hatch Half Marathon
- Brutal Run: Alice Holt
- Chatelherault 6
- Chicken Run
- Chistlehurst Chase
- Chistlehurst Chase Fun Run
- City of London Mile
- Dartford Bridge 10km
- Dartford Bridge 10km & Fun Run
- Dartford Bridge 2km Fun Run
- Edinburgh MoRun 5km
- Frostbite 5
- Great East Swim
- Great Perthshire Tattie Run
- Lamberhurst 5km
- Les Witton 10
- Lochore 10km
- Medway 10km
- Mince Pi
- Oliver Fisher 10km
- Olympic Park Great Run
- Pike & Back
- Run Through Greenwich Park
- Royal Parks Half Marathon
- Scurry Around Corstorphine
- Scurry Around Vogrie Park
- Sidcup 10
- Skull Trail Race
- Splash & Dash
- Summer Breeze Half Marathon
- Superhero Run
- Tough 15
- Tour of Tameside
- Tufty Trail Run
- Vigo Valentines ‘Tough Love’ Run 10 2014
- Vigo Valentines ‘Tough Love’ Run 10 2017
- Vigo Valentines ‘Tough Love’ Run 10 2018
- Vigo Valentines ‘Tough Love’ Run 10 2019
- Vigo Valentines ‘Tough Love’ Run 10 2022
- West Lothian Running Festival
- Westminster Mile 2015
- Westminster Mile 2017
- Whitley 10km
- Winter Family Run
- Winter Wipeout
- Xtreme Beach 5km
Reviews
- Altra Lone Peak v Altra Superior v Altra Olympus
- Altra Lone Peak 2.0
- Altra Lone Peak 3.0
- Altra Olympus 2.0
- Decathlon ‘Youth’ Hiking Pole
- Dirty Girl Gaiters
- DJI Osmo Action Camera
- Harrier Run: Ultra Bundle
- Hoka One One Rapa Nui
- Hoka One One Tor Speed
- London Doctors Clinic
- Microspikes
- Montane Prism Jacket (2020 edition)
- Mountain Buggy Terrain
- Mountain Buggy Unirider
- Mountain Buggy Unirider: long term review
- OMM Sonic Smock
- Oxsitis Hydrabelt Ace
- Raidlight Freetrail Shorts
- Raidlight Revolutiv Race Vest – 12l
- Runderwear
- Running Packs & Vests Guide
- Skora Phase
- Suunto Ambit 2
- The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats its Young Documentary
- Trailroc 245
- Tribord ‘Youth’ Waterproof Jacket
- Ultimate Direction Signature Series PB v1
- Ultimate Direction Signature Series PB v3
Paddling Adventures
Hiking Adventures
Adventures
Motorhome Adventures
Opinion
- A drop in desire and a rise in failure
- A runner in the making
- A-Z of running (Part 1) as mused upon by Ultraboyruns
- A-Z of running (Part 2) as mused upon by Ultraboyruns
- Adios Granny
- Always trouble, always troubled
- Are pacers and crews an advantage?
- Buying your running kit
- Boston: a year on from terror
- Bristol or Gran Canaria?
- Can your job affect your running?
- Coaching and clubs
- Cost v value, are we getting good value in our racing?
- Do people from online or the real world ever really know us?
- Does it matter if I DNF?
- Drive or driven
- Emotions and running
- 15 years in the making: running my mental health
- Flash Gordon and the Skye Trail Ultra
- Getting by with a little help from our friends – the ultra way
- Goodbye Running Friends Scotland
- Goodbye ThunderPad, my beautiful boy
- Hotshot? Think not
- How do you parent and run ultras
- How far I’ve come and how fall I’ve fallen
- How to get ready for an emergency 26.2
- How to survive the Scottish (central belt) winter
- I hate Vitality
- Injury defeats a lard arse
- It’s true biscuits make can make you fat
- Kit bits that always ultra
- Littering is a lack of respect
- Make your miles count as an adventure parent
- More televised adventuring please!
- Moving to Scotland
- My favourite places to go running: the 2017 edition
- My favourite races: the 2015 edition
- My favourite races: the 2017 edition
- My favourite race organisers
- My poor relationship with food continues
- My STD: Strava, Tenacity & Diet
- Pandemic introspection
- Preparing for elevation
- Preview of 2017 from Ultraboyruns
- Racing as a buggy runner
- Racing in 2021?
- Running and charity: to do or do not
- Running costs: am I doing this badly?
- Running costs: the 2016 edition
- Running Highlights 2015
- Running Review 2021
- Running Photography
- Sorry body
- Staying inside my personal bubble
- Support independent running shops
- The best ultra marathon tips I have been given
- The cost of running
- The evolution of the ‘favourite’ runner
- The fear of FAT
- The good, the bad and the even worse of 2015
- The pain of running is more than the physical
- The rising cost of running shoes
- The running bug
- The running shoe costs are high
- Things I’ve learnt about running
- This girl can but I’m not a girl and also struggle sometimes
- Three years of racing
- Ultraboyruns review of 2013
- Ultraboyruns review of 2016
- Ultraboyruns review of 2017
- Ultra food and learning to eat
- Vote and save our place in the European Union
- What a bastard I am as an urban runner
- What happens to the London Marathon places that don’t get taken up?
- Why do I race?
- You’re mental
Tales from the Trail
- A defective Petzl Actik cost me a race finish and I’m pissed about it
- A runners view of poo
- Adventures in trail and poo
- Awkward blisters
- Brilliant moments of 2016
- Cafe Sia – the best food post trail on Skye
- Confessions of a running shopaholic
- Craggy Island Triathlon: I propose to tell a tale
- Creature of habit versus evolving my running kit
- Disgusting toes takeover
- Dreaming I’m running and then I become a murderer
- Escaping Meriden
- Finnish Adventuring
- Focusing on running and trainings going well
- Funning
- Garden lapper
- Getting ready for the Winter 100
- Grandslams
- Hello racing, thought I’d drop by and say hello there
- How I runblog
- I love racing and a gentle amble
- Is Gordon alive?
- It used to be about the UTMB now I’m running for me
- Keeping cool and the August ultra
- Love Scotland
- Medical fraud
- Progress, conclusions and no running
- Q&A with Ultraboyruns
- Questions for an ultra running blogger
- Questions of an ultrarunner
- RIP old friend
- Running, a fuck up waiting to happen
- Shorne Woods and adventures there
- Skin
- Slowly relentless
- Tales of a London city cyclist: Part 1
- Tales of a London city cyclist: Part 2
- Tales of a London city cyclist: Theres a twat in my sights
- Tales of a London city cyclist: Was it attempted murder?
- Tales of failure, responsibility and my testicles
- The curious case of Ashton Court Parkrun
- ThunderPad
- Ultraboyruns v the number 9 bus
- What type of trail running poo are you?
- Why I don’t recce
- WNWA 96 learning to walk
- WNWA 96 miles for 25 years
- WNWA 96 pacing with a legend
- Working my way up the mountains