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I'm John Fowler, 55 years old and living in Exeter, Devon. After a boisterous youth spent playing drums and guitars in noisy bands, I discovered endurance adventure sports in my late twenties in mountain-biking. After regular training on Dartmoor, the...

I'm a self employed joiner in our family business making handmade kitchens and bedrooms. I've been running since 2012 but this was only a couple of times a week whilst playing cricket and hockey. I entered Scafell Trail Marathon in...

I’m George. I’ve been running for 3 years now, but really started getting competitive last year. I got into ultra running by accident really. My work holds a manual 46 mile endurance event, so I decided to give it a go,...

I began running in 2015, I had been struggling with anxiety and depression and began to use running as an outlet on my bad days. I ran a half marathon, and although I was terrified of the groups at the...

What are your personal bests? 5K        16:42 10k      34:00 1/2      74:02 M        2:37   What have you been doing during lockdown? I have been lucky enough to still be working so that didn’t change much for me, but...

Exciting times! If your a regular visitor to XMiles.co.uk you should notice everything looks different.  Don't worry all our great functionality is still here but hopefully you will enjoy navigating the new look site. In this blog we will document...