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…
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…