James Elson

Comrades - 'The Ultimate Human Race', the oldest and biggest ultra in the world. For years I'd had my eye on the race, probabl...

I blogged about this journey a couple of times in the lead up to it. I was probably the most excited I've been all year to get out and r...

So it looks like we've been lucky with the weather. To be honest I don't really care either way but when it's warm and dry up on...

Things have been going well the last few weeks. A fortnight ago we had a great weekend away at the Highland Fling, then this past Sunday I w...

I'd heard a lot about 'the fling', but mostly from Drew Sheffield who kept telling me the race was the best of the best so after...

One day when I'm too old to shuffle more than a few yards i'll look back on these.... Races (Upcoming) 28/4/2012 Highland F...

Monday: 6 miles 0:55 Tuesday: 11 miles Hours Wednesday: 12 miles 1:50 Thursday: 6 miles 1:00 Friday: zippo Saturday: 2 miles 0:16 Sund...

In the last month I've stepped my mileage back up again in preparation for the heart of the racing season. I've felt much more relax...

12 miles, 800 feet climb - Ditchling Beacon to Southease. Started in a cloud, finished in beautiful sunshine.

I genuinely don't believe the good people over on the Centurion Running website want to read this stuff so I'm back posting my old t...

Texas in February. I'm going to start this post in the style of a true Englishman, talking about the weather. I first came out to run ...

Thanks to all of you that read this blog over the last few years. The webmasters over at Centurion Running have moved this blog including ...

Monday: zippo Tuesday: 3.5 miles 0h33 Wednesday: 14.3 miles 2h27 Thursday: 14.3 miles 2h23 Friday: 14.3 miles 1h59 Saturday: zippo Sun...

I am trying to put together a string of consistent daily training runs. My chest infection has cleared but it has left a case of pretty bad ...

That's the number of people in the  Hardrock  lottery today - for 104 slots. That represents (according to somebody else) a 9% of chance...

On the way back, very very slowly. One day at a time, one run at a time. First week back with regular running for 6 weeks or so which is goo...

On Sunday I went out and jogged a few very slow miles and felt no pain at all in my shin or knee. On Monday I did the same, again nothing. I...