James Elson

Friday morning I got up with a spring in my step, anticipating a pretty exciting weekend. The schedule I had in mind included recce-ing the ...

Yesterdays recce took me from Hampton Court Palace (mile 7.47) to Windsor Castle (mile 28.3). I've seen this part of the Thames quite a ...

Monday 5 miles 0:45: Slow local run after bigger week last week Tuesday 14 miles 2:45: Recce of Hollingbourne to Wye - The last 14 miles o...

Lots of updates to the Centurion Site tonight: 2012 NDW50/100 mile races are now open for registrations, limited to first 150 entrants in ...

It's official. In 2012 the NDW100 will run 100 miles point to point from Farnham in the West to the village of Wye in the East. The NDW5...

A couple of weeks ago I started running again for the first time after Leadville, breaking out with three 8 milers in the space of a week or...

Back out again for an hour last night and still no pain. Three days in a row now on my feet. Starting to look at a few things in November ...

Tonight I finally landed back on my feet. I am not going to get carried away and claim that I am 100% fit but it was awesome to be out the d...

A couple of things that have really got me excited recently. Here is Jared Campbell previous Hardrock 100 winner running the most insane s...

I haven't run a step yet since Leadville, I just wanted to give it a proper rest for a while and get some of the hunger back - and it...

All of the above are now live at on our website It feels good to finally close a chapter on our first race and move on with the plans for ...

I have learned a lot this year. I always expected that it would take me a long time to understand the fundamentals of ultrarunning and the w...

Albeit I'm at the start of a long road to recovery, the 2012 season begins here really, with the opening up of entry and lotteries to ne...

The inaugural North Downs Way Races took place over the weekend of the 13th/ 14th August 2011. As with other Centurion Running events, the s...

A very hectic week since we returned from Leadville. I landed Tuesday lunch time and then moved house that afternoon, with a family wedding ...

Leadville had always been high up on my list of dream races. As it was we flew out to the mountains, the Tuesday before the race and I was b...

The front page of the Centurion Running website has now been changed to show the webcast we will have over race weekend. Lots of cool stuff ...

This weekend is the calm before the storm. This time next week we will have had 100 Marathon runners and 100 50 milers cross the finish line...

Well pretty much everything is in place now for our inaugural races on the 13th/ 14th August. This morning I opened up the online registra...

Two warnings on this blog report, graphic description of poorly performing bodily functions and a pretty downbeat spin on things. It won...

This past weekend I had a blast managing the 3rd Checkpoint on the South Downs Way 103 mile trail race from Eastbourne to Winchester. I have...