The Ultra Trail Mt Fuji is taking place today and will start at 3pm local time Japan.
I am super hyped up for the runners here as you can see from the video, the image of Mt Fuji that is seemingly floating above the clouds is pure elegance!
Apr 26
Short bio of UTMF Race Director, Tsuyoshi Kaburaki.
Apr 24
Ultra Trail Mount Rinjani, UTMR!
Today, I found another gem, this time in an obscured race in Indonesia!
I have always wanted to trail run Mount Rinjani after trekking there once before a few years ago. Unforgiving uphills plus a unique and wonderful sight of the crater lake at 2000+m, what’s not to like?
And now it seems, someone has made a race at the location itself which will commence on the 13th of August 2013.
The uphills looks crazy for the distance. UTMR at 51km with +5200~m and RAR at 21km with +1980~m.
Check out the course profiles on their website!
The Ultra Trail Mount Rinjani is a playful name on the UTMB, as well as the UTMF, don’t you think so? 
Well, even their logo…
Apr 21
Mountain running on Mount Agung, the highest mountain on Bali.
Found this video which is a gem. This group of trail runners ran up to the top of Bali at 3100~m.
Really beautiful scenery, what an awesome run!
Mar 31
The most amazing “silent” short running film featuring Adam Campbell.
Adam Campbell is a full time trail runner who left behind his lawyer job for good reasons.
Silence from ARC'TERYX on Vimeo.
In this video, we see him transiting from the desk to the beautiful scape of outdoors in Vancouver. I am pretty sure many of us here are part time runners striving to make a good balance between running and work.
This video strikingly resonates with me as a runner and the tension, stress and unease felt at the workplace is appropriately represented, though a little dramatic with the background ‘noise’.
I am pretty sure that we don’t have to quit our day job to agree that escaping from the desk is something we look forward to daily.
Mar 25
Fuji Mountain Race 2013, registration opens in a few hours.
The Fuji Mountain Race is probably one of the most coveted and historic mountain race in Asia. At +3000m over 21km in a time limit of 4 1/2 hours, it is definitely one of, if not the most challenging mountain race in the Asia region since the Mt Kinabalu race changed to a more tamed route.
With only 50 places for foreigners, it will most probably be one of the toughest race to get into.
And so, the registration opens at 10am (Japanese time). Will you be racing this?
Mar 16
The North Face, Get Ready For: Transgrancanaria 2013
This race is at it’s best this year, with really new routes being set. The scenery is pretty tons amazing too!
Really glad that the cine-visuals is actually improving season on season and nowadays, trail running videos like this is a joy to watch. Don’t you think so?
Mar 10
Downhill-ing, the best part of trail running.
I love down hilling and it cannot be explained better than by this video.
It’s been awhile since the last update but since it’s the start of a new trailrunning season, we will see more actions over here!
Feb 02
Dawa Sherpa interview at UTMB 2012
Nice short interview with Dawa Sherpa.
I’ll let the video do the talking, which sheds light on the current state of UTMB.
Jan 18
Jez Bragg first video dispatch after 21days on the trail.
This guy is a machine! Covering the equivalent of an ultramarathon daily (on routes that is runnable) and fast packing impressive daily distances (on routes that is not so runnable).
And here is his progress so far, looking like he will finish the massive feat pretty soon!