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

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