I love the summer so much. I spend the entire winter counting the days until it gets warmer and the mornings get lighter. But I’m beginning to think that when it gets really warm my running suffers. Case in point – The North Downs Way Marathon. Hermes Running Hermes Running North Downs Way Marathon starts […]

What’s the earliest time you’ve started running in the morning? 8am? 7am? The South Downs Way 100 starts at 6am. That’s quite early. The Round Pen Llyn Ultra Marathon starts at 5am. That’s really early. But I can beat that by miles. The Mudcrew Plague 100k starts at five past midnight. Yes, you heard right.

I imagine, as trail runners, we consider ourselves pretty green. We’re more in touch with our environment, with nature, with the beauty of our surroundings perhaps than some others. We go running on the trails for the scenery, the fresh air, that sense of oneness with the world and to escape from the dirt and

I like elevation, I do. The monotony of continual flat running, for anything over marathon distance, is a mental challenge to which I rarely look forward. So I lean towards races with some climbing. This breaks up the run and forces you to walk giving you natural rests in between efforts. The problem with Round