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

ALLAN SCALLY TEAM RELAY Four legs of 5K on a traffic-free course heading out from Glasgow Green Football Centre. Around 300 teams enter, both single sex or mixed. This year is the 55th edition of this

Fitness racing is all the rage right now, but nothing offers quite the challenge posed by a backyard ultra, which tests both body and spirit in equal measure

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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