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2020, Training, Uncategorised

Inspiration and Training Evening

Altra West Highland Way, ULTRA Training and Inspiration Evening Monday 8 th March 2021 7.00pm-8.30pm(ish) FREE via Zoom link. Our usual evening in Scotland is going virtual this year. An annual informal evening of Ultra running advice and inspiration for anyone or their support crew tackling this iconic epic challenge for the first or tenth […]

2020, News, Training

Videos from whwrace Inspiration Night 2020

On Wednesday 26th February 2020 around 100 people attended our annual ‘Inspiration Evening’ organised by Adrian Stott at Stirling. Here are the videos of the 5 sessions Session One – 33mins 19sec Adrian Stott and John Kynaston interviewed Female course record holder Lucy Colquhoun Session Two – 10mins 21sec Matt Bond gave an introduction to

2020, News, Training

Training Inspiration Night – Wednesday 26th February 2020

Training Inspiration Night – Wednesday 26th February 2020 STIRLING Wednesday 26th February 2020 7:00pm – 9:00pm Tollbooth Arts Centre, Jail Wynd, Stirling FK8 1DE £5 An annual informal evening of advice and inspiration. This evening is for anyone – or their support crew – tackling this iconic 95-mile challenge, for the first or tenth time. Also

2020, Training

Training Weekend Review

We had over 70 runners for our Training Run on Saturday 25th January 2020. A good number of runners ran the full 30 miles from Balmaha to Inversnaid and back while others opted to turn earlier. Race Director, Ian Beattie, whose birthday was on the Friday wrote A big thank you to everyone for all

2020, News, Training

Training Weekend details

Just a reminder that this Saturday (25th January 2020) sees the Altra West Highland Way training weekend run.  The plan is to meet outside the Oak Tree Inn in Balmaha at around 9.45am, for a 10.00am (prompt) start.  The full run is an out and back along the West Highland Way to Inversnaid, which is

2019, News, Training

Training and Inspiration night

Our annual training and Inspiration night of inspiring talks and chat is on Wednesday 27th February at 7pm at the usual venue at the Tollbooth Arts centre, Jail Wynd, Stirling FK8 1DE. Great line up of speakers including last years winners David McLure and Nicola Adams-Henry, together with Jamie Aarons & Norma Bone. Plus James Stewart too. Inspiration for first

News, Training

Top 5 tips for running the whw race

On my personal blog I have started a series of vblogs called LOVEultras were I have been sharing my thoughts on ultra running. For the latest episode I have shared my 5 top tips for running the West Highland Way race. I hope you find it helpful. John Kynaston

Training

Race Time Predictor

This is a pace and splits calculator for the 95 mile West Highland Way ultramarathon, running the full length of this iconic trail, from Glasgow (Milngavie) to Fort William in the Scottish Highlands that was put together by climbers.net It is a great tool for giving you and your support team an idea of expected

Podcasts, Training

Videos from Inspiration Evening

We had an excellent Inspiration Night at Stirling on Tuesday 10th January 2017 with over 80 people attending. We recorded the talks and they are now available on episodes 104 and 105 of the whwrace podcasts. Go to the podcasts tab to listen to them.They are also available on iTunes (search for whwrace)Videos of the

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