THE SPORTING EVENT OF THE YEAR #Sheffield Rice Cake Eating Championship! www.instagram.com/reel/DMiHfet...

A chat, a ponder, an insight. @helenannhartley.bsky.social talks to YHRF Podcast, listen in... linktr.ee/youngheartsr... @willbaldlygo.bsky.social @keithdunn.bsky.social @ultradamo.bsky.social @drlygo.bsky.social

Last night a Dead Cow Gully, Phil Gore got a new #backyardultra world record with 119 Loops. Sam Harvey with the 118 Loop assist. #ultrarunning

Yeah, but are they having fun? Almost new world record time in Australia… #ultrarunning #backyardultra

Sam Harvey and Phil Gore are into loop 108, on night FIVE of #DeadCowGully #BackyardUltra The record is 116 loops. I feel tired this morning because I unconsciously pulled the blanket off my fiancée a couple of times in the night and she had to wake me up to get it back 🤣 #ultrarunning #running

I’ve had a full night’s sleep since the last post. 2 still standing on loop 106 at #DeadCowGully #ultrarunning

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

May the cool sound reach you as well.

Meanwhile in Australia 👀 #ultrarunning

It’s been a really, really, really good evening 🤩

If ever you need to have your faith in humans restored, come to the @spinerace.bsky.social Run it, volunteer at it, hand out flapjacks on the course. Whatever you put into the #SpineRace you get back in buckets ❤️

➡️ The Montane Summer Spine Challenger North begins at 08:00 In Hardraw, one group of runners are anxiously anticipating the start of their 160 mile test on the trails… #SummerSpine #BritainsMostBrutal

As the runners in the Montane Summer Spine Challenger North and MRT Challenge North start their journey toward Kirk Yetholm and glory, here’s your Monday morning update from @willbaldlygo.bsky.social Part 1… #SpineRace #SummerSpine

My usual pre #spinerace digs are set up, my spreadsheets have been wrestled into cooperation and my camera batteries are charging. 1 sleep until #summerspine 2025 🎉

Me every time I walk into a room for the next 10 days… It’s nearly Summer #SpineRace time!

➡️ THE SPORTING EVENT OF THE YEAR… #sheffield

For anyone else wishing the May bank holiday was a week longer, here is a delightful family of ducks to soothe you. #timelinecleanse

‘for those who prefer smaller races with a more local vibe, there’s a fantastic range to choose from right across the UK’ They’ll stay smaller races if UTMB take charge of #trailrunning #ultrarunning in the UK. I want to see coverage of unique, independent races with all their local character!

This is one for Green Runners living in the SE of England. Looking for a new running challenge with easy access using public transport? Look no further than the London Spiral. PS Ultra runners please note, there’s no Thames crossing between crossing at Dartford and Purfleet. #HowWeMove

Seems it’s time to dust off the Lady Hale T-Shirt again!

Green Runner John Kelly is going for the Appalachian Trail FKT and in doing so raising money for Hurricane Helene recovery. Dot watching will commence on Sunday! Go John!

This highlights a great point re #AI I have very little coding/dev experience, but I’ve been trying a few no/low-code tools to build systems that retrieve + analyse data from local sources. AI tools have helped me make these systems, but the systems usually work best when code/maths does the work…

John ‘randomforestrunner’ Kelly sets off this Sunday on the Appalachian Trail! He’ll be sharing updates on the area’s ongoing recovery from Hurricane Helene, a subject close to his heart #legend Learn more and show your support here: www.gofundme.com/f/hurricane-... #ultrarunning #running 🧵

As an associate lecturer facing the possibility of having no teaching work in the next academic year due to @teamlabouruk.bsky.social’s recent announcements on immigration and #HigherEd funding… I could not agree more with this! ⬇️

History is predominantly told as a tale powerful individuals - but is this a product of large numbers of ordinary people rather than an elite few? | iai.tv/video/what-i... Join Philippa Gregory, as she reveals the importance of ordinary people in determining the course of history. #socsky

Still thinking about this debacle today. What a mess. I've dropped my thoughts below so my brain doesn't explode, but in short - if you're using #AI then ALWAYS be the human in the loop, or you could publicly suffer the consequences the @chicago.suntimes.com is reeling from now...

Well that’s shocking! The Chicago Sun-Times could presumably throw a rock and hit 3 freelancers who could knock off a real, worthy list in no time. But it’s also just so incompetent. Do not publish anything you’ve had created using AI unless you have fact checked it! #AI is NOT a search engine!

I had to read this 3 times before it would go in. Wild…

Good news! Byway @bywaytravel.bsky.social has joined Bluesky 🙌 Follow for flight-free travel inspiration and tips on where to go and how to get there. Oh, and don't forget you can get a discount on your Byway holiday by using the code FLIGHTFREE2025 😀 Find out more and book: www.byway.travel

And they said men wouldn't buy this book, eh @emmajourno.bsky.social. I think @ultradamo.bsky.social might beg to differ...

Thought I might share a life story from a few months ago to brighten your day. Back in March, I spotted a raccoon on the side of the interstate that had very clearly been run over. I pulled over thinking I’d have to put it out of its misery. We ended up becoming good friends.

9yrs ago in Peru with #BeyondtheUltimate The videographer had pulled out just before #JungleUltra 2016 so I stepped in, full of unearned confidence. It was so tough, but I learned on the fly and loved it. Out of shape, out of my element and by this stage out of my mind… #running #ultrarunning

Big move from Ultra X here! Free entry to all UK races for under 23s. I’ve may have met more septuagenarians at races than students. Good to see a move that might bring more young runners into #ultrarunning #trailrunning #running

Happy Birthday Sir David! On his 99th birthday, nature’s ambassador delivers an important new film that highlights the devastation inflicted on our oceans. But there is hope. The oceans will recover if governments step up. Let’s use our voices & demand change. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dan Green and Rachel Entrekin, Cocodona champions, Rachel for the second time in a row! Sounded like a race of all seasons. Absolutely brilliant runs 🤩 #Cocodona250 📸 by the talented Howie Stern

Roughly 17,000 councillors in the UK. Nearly 6500 Labour. Just over 5000 Tory. 3000 Lib Dem. Reform have 799 and suddenly N.F. is being touted by the media as the next Prime Minister? The Green Party have 850 councillors. Why aren't the Green Party being bigged-up by the press? Seriously, why?

Head over to my Substack to give my race preview for the Cocodona 250 a read! What an incredible field we’ll have all week, including Courtney Dauwalter battling for an overall win! open.substack.com/pub/aidstati...

The tabs that will be keeping me distracted all day: Tracking and leaderboard: www.aravaiparunning.com/cocodona2/co... Live: www.youtube.com/@MountainOut... 🐐Courtney Dauwalter leading atm #spinerace fans might want to keep an eye on 2024 winner Jack Scott, currently 7th man. #cocodona250

Bank holiday adventures in #linocut! Ok, I need a harder, flatter surface and some better kit for the actual printing stage, but I’m pretty happy with how this one went!

Mainstream radio presenters like Vanessa Feltz are perfectly happy to contribute, in their own small way, to the rise of the extreme far right. Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist. Really I wonder how they sleep at night.

It’s been a bruising time for trans rights. The lack of compassion for a vulnerable group of fellow humans is depressing. The long list of medical professionals adding their name to this letter helps. Trans rights are human rights. Trans men are men. Trans women are women. I will die on this hill 🏳️‍⚧️

I can’t pinpoint precisely when it started, but these days when I see this kind of post I’m like…

Great little chat with Jasmin Paris today on @lilycanter.bsky.social’s excellent substack open.substack.com/pub/runningm... #smalleuropeanwoman #running #ultrarunning @thegreenrunners.bsky.social

‘alone we can accomplish amazing things. together we can accomplish anything.’ On June 7th I’ll be at the Suffolk #BackyardUltra providing race updates. I was already excited after the records in Belgium this week and this post from Laz on FB has me even more hyped! #SBYU #Ultrarunning #running

From #legendsbackyard FB: ‘Jan Vandekerckhove did not complete loop 116, so Łukasz Wróbel is our winner with an amazing new world record of 116 yards. They pushed the limit of what is humanly possible. Again...’ 📸 Photos credit of @Caroline Dupont Photography

They’re breaking records at #legendsbackyard in Belgium! Lukasz Wrobel and Jan Vandekerckhove both on loop 114 as I type 🤯 www.instagram.com/reel/DJFpQZk... #backyardultra

The trial of the men accused of felling the Sycamore Gap Tree began today. I know many of the @spinerace.bsky.social community will be as distracted by the rolling coverage today as I am. That beautiful tree was a living, breathing icon of the @pennineway.bsky.social. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...

I really enjoy scrolling through the amazing #photography posted for #Stunday, and the weekly excuse to revisit some of my own. A Wildlife Ranger peering through the glare of the rising sun, in Kenya 2018…

I was taking pictures of this ridiculously gorgeous pheasant when a chipmunk scared the shit out of all three of us. 😂 #birds

A fringe benefit of learning about #AI is it’s made me consider what our minds are, what information really is and how and why they interact at all. It’s been humbling, fascinating and confusing. Luckily here’s Annaka Harris brilliantly exploring all the big questions I’ve been wrestling with 🤩