For the last five years, Anna Troup has been winning some of the toughest trail races you can find in the UK. Troup only took up ultrarunning in her 40s, but her background as one of the winning team

The sun reflected off the frosty moorland which stretched out ahead of her for miles. Stone slabs led all the way down the deserted valley to the Scottish border. Jasmin Paris picked her way down the

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

What’s the best excuse you have ever made for performing badly in a race? I’m not talking about those deliberately vague ones we all trot out at short notice when we’ve had a shocker like “I’ve had a

I actually feel like I’m not much of a risk-taker,” says Louise Ferguson. These are unexpected words coming from the first woman to complete a top-to-bottom race run through the treacherous rocks, off

What’s been your hardest race? This is such a tough question! It was probably the Dragon’s Back, a multi-day race across the Welsh mountains where you camp in group tents each night. The typical days