James Elson

I have been somewhat reluctant to do a summary of the year as it just feels a bit cliche. I do however, have a pretty serious compulsive dis...

I guess over the next 8 months I'll end up writing about this particular subject over and over again. For a long time now I've consi...

Slept well last night after yesterdays little work out, got up and ran in. It was freezing this morning and I felt crappy all the way in to ...

Ran the Gatliff 50km today and had a great day out. The sun shone from 9am through to the finish just after 2pm and made the freezing condit...

Had a few good work outs already this week, I feel like slowly there is some form coming back. I have the Gatliff 50km this weekend and Luto...

After 5 weeks of intensive work on the website , Al made some of the final touches last night and we launched it today. I'm still not 10...

Lottery entry went in this morning for Western States next June. They are expecting over 2000 applicants for 300 places this year. The odds ...

Got around to booking my place at the Leadville 100 for August 2011 this morning.  Can't wait to have a go at a course I have read so m...

Well the down time has ended. I'm back in to training again now. The last few weeks have involved a few short week night runs and a long...

Its been kind of quiet for me since Caesars Camp. It was the end of my racing year to all intents and purposes and I always intended to have...

Most of the worlds hardest races have been written about at length but there are a few races at the most extreme end of the scale that haven...

From January to the first weekend of October I've trained and raced relentlessly and always planned to take a break following my schedul...

It's the morning after and I'm feeling pretty great about the race. I didn't achieve anywhere near what I'd hoped to time/ p...

Have spent the day resting in preparation for the 100 miler tomorrow and I am 100% ready to kick this off now, I think Badwater is finally o...

Today I was supposed to be riding 508 miles across Death valley in the second part of the Death Valley Cup, a race called the Furnace Creek ...

am: 4 miles: 29 minutes pm: 6 miles: 45 minutes Less is more has been a big part of my belief system for about 15 years. I've never ...

pm: 25 miles: 4 hours 30 Long and slow again because I was map reading for large chunks of it. Unfortunately map reading through the stree...

pm:  1hr 58: 14 miles Nice easy run 2 laps of Hyde Park with Pete. Felt good tonight absolutely no issues and the first time I felt like I...

Pretty excited about all of these: January: Country to Capital 45 mile. Repeat of this year. February: Thames Trot 50 mile. Want to rea...

pm 4 miles 35 easy minutes Just an easy run home today. Back to normal mileage tomorrow. Needed this though I slept pretty rough on Sunday...

pm: 50km. 5 hours 2 mins. Fairly solid run out to Syon Park down the Thames Path and back. Hot today and felt it towards the end but only ...

am: 30 minutes pm: 30 minutes Total: 8 miles Two pretty average runs where I didn't feel great for either, nowhere near 100% so kep...

am: 30 minutes. great morning again. pm: 1 hour 10. 30 minutes down to Blackfriars with Rusty and back up the Thames Path to Battersea. ...

am: 30 minutes nice warm up felt better than usual (still can't run early in the day as well as I'd like). pm: 1 hr 10 round Hyde ...

In the past I've had a few people ask me how many marathons I've done. Climbing up the Le Charme with James Adams in the UTMB a fort...

This morning i biked in to work, quads still sore from running up and down mountains at the weekend so took it pretty easy. Did a 30 minute ...

Last night Jez Bragg and Lizzy Hawker made it a double win for the UK in the revised shortened version of two races that began on Saturday m...

After all the many hours of deliberation over whether to run yesterday or not I threw myself into the race and committed around lunchtime by...