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  • Are supplements vital with a plant-based diet?

    Where to get your vitamins without eating animal products When I first stopped eating animal products (around six years’ ago now), there was a lot of concern from well-meaning relatives, as well as people who had no clue about me, as to whether I’d be getting enough “goodness” from my diet. Surely, without eating dairy,

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  • Tips from the top: Dragon’s Back Race hacks from former finishers

    I’ve got into the groove this week with a more positive mindset and efforts to do some meaningful training. I’m telling myself over again that this is my race, and my race only. Mild panic set in previously from reading other comments from incredible fell runners who make mountain running look easy, and I wondered

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  • Coping with time out from training

    Forced to stop running? Struggling with injury, illness, or just a lack of time? Here’s how to cope (This article is an updated version of one I wrote for Trail Running Magazine back in lockdown) Illness is abound. Every person I know either has, or has had, the lurgy – this hideous flu, Covid, or

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  • Dragon’s Back Race

    The One Where I’m Given a Place and I’m Still in Shock There are a few films which document a certain race – The Dragon’s Back. It spans from Conwy to Cardiff in Wales, and it takes in all the spiky, spiny, mountainy bits. It’s 236 miles, and if you like nicely rounded numbers, 380km;

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  • Vegan ultra running

    Vegan ultra running

    Running 300 miles fuelled by plants I used to get told fairly frequently that I wouldn’t have the energy to sustain a long run if I just ate a vegan diet. That was when the notion of running a really, really long way for charity was just the seed of an idea. The likes of

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