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About Us
why us ?
into ultra was started and is run by a group of runners who share a love of ‘going long’ as well as a desire to improve inclusivity in ultrarunning and help more under-represented groups get to the start line. We are registered as a charity in England and Wales. As we grow we are looking for others with different ideas, perspectives and skills. If you share our vision and would like to join the team please contact us.
Damian Hall
aka ‘ultradamo’ is a tea-powered GB ultrarunner who likes the long and lumpy stuff with a Spine win, 1st UTMR, 5th UTMB, a Barkley Marathons fun run and several FKTs across the UK’s hills and mountains. In between he’s a coach, journalist, author and most recently co-founder of The Green Runners.
Paula Bedford
is a co-founder, race director and coach with Camino Ultra. Based in London, Camino and Paula are passionate about improving diversity in ultrarunning by inspiring and attracting new people to try trail running and ultras by offering taster courses, curating new routes and providing support and advice. Paula is also event director of her local junior parkrun and an ultrarunner.
Shirin Shabestari
first love was walking and mountaineering in Iran where she grew up. Now living in London with her two boys, but without 5,000m+ peaks she gets her outdoor fix through rock climbing and long trail and mountain runs. She is an active member of Maverick Run Project and The Green Runners with an interest in sport psychology and performance.
Hannah Blundell
... about Hannah ...
Baljit Chohan
is getting slower with age but trying to compensate by increasing the distance of his running. After getting into ultras with back to back Comrades he has developed a passion for trails and distance. A lawyer by profession with a lifelong commitment to diversity in work, sport and society
Sarah Reynolds
Is pretty sure she learnt to read maps before she learnt to read books and has been a lover of the outdoors since childhood. She started road running in 2001 and then transitioned to triathlon, to try to mix things up and then found that trail running and ultras are far more fun. Sarah coaches at her local running club in Cirencester and gets out on the trails whenever possible.
Rob Kenny
... about Rob ...
Andrew 'Basil' Heaney
was a latecomer to ultrarunning but has slowly crawled his way up to being a mid-pack runner finishing many gnarly multi-day races in the UK and Alps but also with a probably world-leading CV of DNFs too. No podiums but has small corner in the record books of being only person (foolish enough) to complete the Winter Downs 200, Spine and Arc of Attrition back-to-back.
our ambassadors
Jasmin Paris
Jasmin Paris MBE is an ultra-runner extraordaire, vet and mum of two. The two most outstanding finishes on a lengthy palmares are probably breaking the Spine record by 12 hours (which lasted for 5 years) and being the first woman to finish the Barkley Marathons (with 99 seconds to spare). Starting as a fell runner, Jasmin won the Skyrunner World Series, British Fell Running Championships and held records on Ramsey Round and Bob Graham Round. And she's also a co-founder of The Green Runners.
Renee McGregor
Renee is leading a sports dietician, specialising in eating disorders, REDs and the female athlete. As well as helping teams and indviduals she has written "More Fuel You". She’s a trustee for Black Trail Runners, supporting and advocating the importance of increased diversity and accessibility to minority groups to the outdoors. Renee is also a pretty mean ultrarunner too with several podiums is also a British Trail Running Champion.
Allie Bailey
Allie is an ultra runner with a bunch of ecletic world firsts including crossing Lake Khovsgol (on ice). Most recently she added writing to her achievements - “There is No Wall” is her story of alcoholism and mental health crises and her way out. She is also an endurance running and mindset coach which focuses on “people, not placings”, “completing, not competing”.
Claire Maxted
Claire was a co-founder and former editor of Trail Running magazine. She has built Wild Ginger Running which has films providing advice, guides, tips and interviews. More recently has written two books “The Ultimate Trail Running Handbook” and “The Ultimate Ultra Running Handbook”. And of course, she runs ultras - happily at the back of the pack. Her current goal is an ’SKT’ (slowest known time) on the Dragon’s Back