Ian Walker’s blog

When you go from doing no sport at all to doing ultradistance racing, and when this change happens right as you turn 40, it's always go...

In January 2016 my student and I published an article in the Guardian entitled Electric Cars won't Save our Cities . The article was dr...

So it's three days after the Centurion South Downs Way 100. Rather than bore you with a full blow-by-blow account of this one, I'v...

The Oldham Way Ultra is a 40-ish mile (64-ish km) circular run around... well, around Oldham obviously. 2015 was the second time Team OA ...

The plan was simple: go out hard and beat 24 hours, or collapse along the way with a smile on my face. The Winter 100 takes runners along...

The Cotswold Way just shouldn't be this hard. It's the Cotswolds for goodness' sake. The Cotswolds are tea and scones, sheep a...