Every minute of every day the Ultramarathon scene is getting more and more popular. There are BCN Backyards with 10000 people registering for 170 places. Events like Western States requite almost ten years solid of ballot places. Even local trail races can be hot tickets (like Camino Epping in October). Through all the mayhem there are small bunch of ultras that have been around for almost fifty years and their popularity shows zero sign of diminishing. Whatever you think abo

Wow Arc of Attrition has always been a firm favourite of the Camino family but this year was as spicy as we can remember. On our team WhatsApp group all the chatter was about how the temperature looked mild but felt freezing. With Storm Ingrid in full effect Camino had athletes in all four distances - 12 - 25 - 50 to 100 miles....but would any of them survive? Julia and Katie getting ready for the stormy 50 With places for the Winter Spine and Arc getting more and more compe

Over the past five years Camino Ultra has supported athletes taking part in all of the various distances of our beloved Winter version of the Spine. 268 Miles along the intrepid Pennine Way. This year felt a little different. There appears to be more eyes on this one than ever before. One of our close friends Sarah Porter had to deal with 'beheading death threats' during her Challenger South attempt. Eugeni who was taking part in his 13th Spine and led for most of the first f

For those of you familiar with Camino Ultra will know Peter Thomason. Peter can be found in the photo diaries of Camino's first ever event. He's taken on all of our event series and this year he was the stand-out winner of our London 100 . In January he was the strongest at the Longbridge Backyard (before a work flight meant his time was up) in the summer he raced favourite Ryan Whelan all the way at Centurions 100 mile North Downs Way (Pete was second in a performance that p