Night swimming

Eight-six, 85, 84… log onto the website of any Ironman event and you’ll see a count day to race day. Even with nearly one hundred days to go until the 2025 edition of Ironman Wales, it’s a reminder th

Water is leaking into my goggles. I blink a couple of times and try to figure out which lens is the culprit. Both? It’s strange, as these goggles have done many miles in training and never leaked befo

What do you get when you cross a jaded old triathlete who thinks he’s seen it all, with a group of 50 enthusiastic children with a range of abilities all doing one of their first ever races? The answe

MOUNTAINS DO STRANGE THINGS to us. You see ...

“It’s been a crazy few months. I’m in shock, a bit of disbelief it’s over, and the body is feeling it, but not as bad as it could have been.” Mitch Hutchcraft is propped up on the bed of his hotel roo

A seemingly superhuman ultrarunning barrier is tantalisingly close to being shattered. So close, in fact, that we could see it happen this year. Here’s what it will take to push beyond the edge – and who has the grit to do it