Join the Trail & Kale Strava Running Club
Join the Trail & Kale Strava Running Club: for all runners and adventure lovers. On this page, you can find out more about the club and a link…
Matterhorn Ultraks 30k: an Alpine trail race around Zermatt
This was it, the race I’d been waiting to run all year: Matterhorn Ultraks, a trail race around Zermatt, in the beautiful Swiss Alps.
Matterhorn Ultraks 46K – Skyrunning in the Swiss Alps
The Matterhorn Ultraks 46k Skyrace has been in the diary for nearly a year and so it was always going to be the…
Buff Epic Trail – A Skyrunning Adventure through the Spanish Pyrenees
Racing the Buff Epic Trail Half Marathon at the Skyrunning World Championships in the Spanish Pyrenees. Trail & Kale had a great weekend with…
Running the Ridgeway: Race to the Stones ultramarathon 2016
Overview This race is billed as ‘the UK’s most popular ultra marathon’, with c.2,500 runners and walkers registering…
Salomon Trail Marathon Wales 2016
In 2015 we both ran our second marathon; it happened to be the extremely beautiful yet very challenging Trail Marathon Wales sponsored by…
Blisters on the ball of my foot: caused by gait, not shoes
I used to suffer from awful blisters because of how I ran. This is how I overcame them and went on to run marathons and ultra-distances with…
Keswick Mountain Festival Ultra: 50k around the Lake District
Sunday 22 May 2016, around 3pm: I looked at my Suunto Ambit 3 Sport and it read 52km – I was about 2km from the finish line of my first…
Keswick Mountain Festival 50K Ultra Marathon
I’ve wanted to visit the Lake District for some time now, especially as the trail / fell running scene is so big there! To further my…
CTS Exmoor Marathon review – Alastair’s Perspective
I heard a great quote last week which sums up a trail marathon perfectly: “Running a marathon is 90% mental…. the other 90% is…
CTS Exmoor Marathon Review – Helen’s Experience
I have been missing trail races as the last race I completed was Trail Marathon Wales last summer, so I signed up in February to run this…
CTS Gower Trail Marathon – Running In Crazy Bad Weather!
Running CTS Gower Trail Marathon It’s Friday evening, the night before race day; the wind is picking up to 50mph at times and the rain…