Stories by Xmiles

Hi, I’m Louella. I used to play rugby for about 18 years, some of it representative, then had a break for a few years and fell into Triathlon in 2012. I’d heard about it 5 years earlier and heard about...

Receiving the news about Ironman South Africa being cancelled whilst training in Lanzarote with only 4 weeks to go wasn’t easy to swallow. It’d be my attempt to fulfil the KONA dream and with my fitness at its highest ever,...

Hi, my names Howard Dracup. So first I’ll start by telling you a little bit about myself, some of my background & how I got into running. I’m 35 years old & I was born in a little village called...

Hi I’m Jo. I would say that I’m normally a road marathon runner but lockdown has converted me to be more of a trail runner. Which is lucky as I live on the northern edge of Dartmoor. I travel a...

The short story is that I got fat at uni, started running to shift it and never stopped. The long story is that my relationship with running almost broke down after a terrible London Marathon in 2010 and it was...

Jo is an ultra runner....on roads, in the mountains, and on trails.  She has been a runner for a long time working hard towards her goals. She enjoys racing all over the world and has even been lucky enough to...