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Runner, Lizzy Hawker Book Release
Lizzy Hawker is a one of Britain’s most successful ultra marathon runners and former Spartathlete having completed the event in 2012 finishing 3rd overall in 27.02. Lizzy’s book “A Short story about a long run” has recently been reissued and David Bone has kindly offered a brief review of the book. Having read “Runner – A short story […]
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2018 British Spartathlon Team T-Shirts & Hoodies
Hello everyone, we hope all the runners are training hard and crew/supporters are getting excited about Spartathlon. In addition to the team kit supplied thanks to the wonderful generosity of our sponsors Ultramarathon Running Store, Oyster Wealth and Peak Pinole we are offering some casual T-Shirts and Hoodies for sale through the Teespring fulfilment site […]
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British Spartathlon Team Update (June 2018)
Hey everyone, it’s been a little while since we wrote our last team post and we have various news we wanted to update you on. Team News We have had a few changes to the team with drop-outs and withdrawals meaning a few lucky people on the waiting list have now been offered places. We […]
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British Spartathlon Team Update (March 2018)
2018 British Spartathlon Team The draw has been made and those lucky enough to secure a place at this years event have now been announced. Congratulations to the following athletes who have achieved a place at this years event: Stephen Walker Ian Thomas Cat Simpson Matthew Blackburn John Melbourne John Stocker Nathan Flear Alastair Higgins […]
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An Evening with the British Spartathlon Team
(Write up by David Bone) Anyone who has ever been involved with Spartathlon knows that it consumes you. You race, crew or “follow the dots” and you want more. In a matter of days after finishing his first Spartathlon in 2017 Darren Strachan knew that he just wanted to get as many of the awesome […]
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Spartathlon Qualifying Process
How to qualify for Spartathlon? So you want to run Spartathlon? Great, welcome! On the opening day of the entry system for the 2018 Spartathlon , this article will explain the qualification and entry process. Unless you already have a qualifier then it’s pretty much too late for an entry this year (the Flitch Way […]
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Spartathletes on Tour
Spartathletes on Tour The British Spartathlon Team were delighted to be asked to visit the children of Orchard Meadow Primary school and give a presentation on the Legend of Pheidippides and the Spartathlon race to accompany the classes current studies on ancient history. This was tentatively arranged before this years Spartathlon event with myself (Paul […]
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2017 BASEM Spartathlon Reports
With thanks to Dora Papadopoulou for putting together a superb article on the performance of the 2017 Spartathlon team for inclusion in the British Association of Sport & Medicine magazine which can be found here
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James Ellis
Runners Information Your Name: James Ellis Occupation: Journalist/PR and PT/Nutrition Therapist Home Town: Leeds Runners Questions What is your running background? Good(ish) at school where I had to run cross country to get into the football team (it was a small school, so it was a kind of bribe to make us run). Then I […]
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Sarah Morwood
Name: Sarah Morwood Job: Doctor Background I started running around 10 years ago when I was a size 18 with the aim of losing weight whilst avoiding dieting. Pottered around for a few years and then in 2012 upped my game to take on a marathon In 2013 I signed up for Bolton Ironman, and […]
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