Over the past few years more and more Caminos have been experiencing all the new distances and events being offered by the Montane Spine team. There was a time when most of our Camino community were exclusively signing up to experience the Winter Spine more and more of them have been taking on the Summer version. For the first time the Spine organisers offered five open events - the Sprint and the Challenger series now both have a North and South version to join the full 268

In the age of social media you are either on or off. If you are into running and 'on' then you probably saw the images of 160 runners inside a West London film studio taking part in a non-stop 24 hour treadmill event. Camino Ultra had one of the 40 teams taking part and we asked the team to reflect upon the wildness. One thing that the four of them hadn't anticipated was that an event of this nature could be so enriching that there was a real sense that previous insecurities

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