I have a terrible habit of signing up for races I’m wholly unsuitable for. First there was the fatbike challenge in the Arctic Circle in midwinter – a chilly affair that saw me trudging through the sn

There have been several attempts at a winter round of the Wainwrights, usually continuous efforts by ultra-runners. But could two fellwalking friends reach all 214 summits in what turned out to be the wintriest season in Lakeland for years? David Johnson and Nicky Oliver decided to find out…

In his paean to the sport, Feet in the Clouds, Richard Askwith explains pithily: “You run up the fell; you run down again.” Simple it may be; easy it is not. Unlike trail running, which generally stic

The inside story of Elsey Davis’s record-setting circumnavigation of her native Cornwall – and the cruel diagnosis that drove her to take on the challenge

It has been a hectic season for the Stovebolt Special: 11 hillclimb weekends, two hillclimb schools, and 3000 rapid road miles getting to and from them. And one serious breakage. That was sorted in ti

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