Author: British Spartathlon Team
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Jon Steele
Your Name: Jonathan Steele Occupation: Race Director Home Town: Tadcaster Runners Questions What is your running background? I started running in my teens as part of my Martial Arts Training. Then upped the mileage by joining the Parachute Regiment (albeit usually in boots and with a bergan) I always ran to train and never particularly…
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2015 Spartathlon Race Reports
Race Reports We have started adding a number of race reports to the website or linking to people’s blogs as and when these reports are written. You can find links to all of the reports at the link here The official 2015 British Spartathlon Team report can be found here James & Jamie’s Charity You…
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British Spartathlon Team News
Congratulations to all our British Spartathlon finishers and all the runners, crews and supporters who made it a brilliant weekend for the team. Due to the difficulty of this race there were some success and some failures but the British Team recorded an overall finishing rate of 65% which was the 3rd highest country (excluding…
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The Michael Callaghan Trophy
(Thanks to Ian Thomas for the update) As the team will recall Patrick Macke has kindly donated the impressive trophy he won for winning Spartathlon in 1985 in a time of 23:18:00 h. Patrick still holds the record for the best British Performance 23:08 (1990) and during his career has set world records over various…
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British Spartathlon Team News – September 2015
(Thanks to Mimi Anderson and Paul Ali for this months update). We are all now counting down the days until the start of the 2015 Spartathlon. I was looking back at the blog I wrote after my 2011 race and this is how I felt – a moment in my running life that I will…
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