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Sunday the 23rd saw the 13th St Peters Way Ultra take place. This is a scenic but muddy at times 42 mile Ultra Marathon across Essex from the small town of Chipping Ongar to the remote Chapel at Bradwell on Sea. its a mixture of fields, bridleways and footpaths with the occasional short section of…
For those new to Backyard Ultra’s the concept and format is simple. Run a 4.167 loop on the hour every hour until there is only one person left who can finish a loop (also known as a Yard) which nobody else can finish within the hour. 1 winner and everybody is DNF (Did not Finish).…
The Thames Ring 250 is an old school, no fuss, hard to complete 250+ mile Ultramarathon held annually in the 3rd week of April starting on a Wednesday morning and running through to Sunday afternoon. Oh and it has arguably the best medal you will ever receive, though you will have to earn it. 857g…
The St Peters Way Ultra is a 42 mile Ultra Marathon running across Essex from Chipping Ongar to the St Peters Chapel on the coast at Bradwell on Sea. It’s 42 miles of footpaths, bridleways and muddy fields. With a generous 13 hour cut-off time and 4 well stocked checkpoints along the way it’s a…
Sunday 8th of January we held our Flitch 12 hour event, this is a very low key timed event, originally designed as a last minute qualifier for those who want to enter Spartathlon and other events that require specific time and distances covered to enter. However it has evolved into a small low key event…
Race Date 31st of December 2022 Every New Years since 2015 we have done a race along the Flitch Way, Marathons, Half Marathons and a 10k on either New Years Eve or New Years Day. Now we only do one race on New Years Eve that includes all three distances. Post covid this is the…
The background/Race Prep The Stort30 was the first race we ever set up here at Challenge Running and is still our most popular one. Pre Covid we regularly got 250-300 starters each year. Post Covid we are still waiting for those numbers to bounce back and hopefully they will when the big City Marathons like…
Race Report For those not familiar with the Backyard Ultra format, it’s a simple basic format. Run 4.167 miles every hour on the hour until only one person remains capable of completing loop that nobody else can do within the time limit of 1 hour. No support allowed on the loop, No poles, If you…