Night half marathon

The Great Manchester Run hits the city each May, giving runners the option to do either a 10K or a half marathon. You’d be forgiven for thinking that this event was solely a 10K though, as watching th

I knew embarrassingly little about the city of Gdańsk in Poland before I ran the half marathon there. But I knew a man who did. And that's because it’s the hometown of a friend from my running club an

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

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

I’ve been thinking about this climb for months. If I can just get up it, I’ll feel I’ve broken the back of this brutal bike leg. But talking of broken backs, mine is straining. Like fudge doughnuts, s