Looking to challenge yourself this year with an off-road adventure? Enter Project Trail for the experience of a lifetime: expert coaching, head-to-toe kit and a 50-mile ultramarathon to remember. Trail running – and ultrarunning in particular – has exploded over the past few years, with more and more runners being won over by its various benefits: great scenery, less impact on the joints and the opportunity to explore some incredible places.
Perfect partners
We’ve teamed up with trail titan Columbia Montrail and sports nutrition giant High5 to give you the best possible experience. Project Trail participants will be kitted out in the best clobber Columbia Montrail has to offer, while High5 will be taking care of all of your nutritional needs. In addition, the brands will be providing expert insight into how to get the most from your Project Trail experience.
Expert coaching
Participants will be offered expert advice every step of the way by Team GB ultrarunner Robbie Britton and the TrainAsONE programme. Robbie – who won bronze at the 2015 World 24hr Championships – will be overseeing all the training and helping to tailor the training plans to your individual abilities and ambitions, whether that’s a place on the podium or simply crossing the finish line in one piece.
How to enter
To be part of Project Trail, please email mensrunning@wildbunchmedia.co.uk, with the subject heading ‘Project Trail’, and tell us in no more than 300 words about your running background and why you think you should be chosen. Include your kit and shoe size and a contact number. If you have a good story to tell, we’d love to hear it. The three strongest entries will be selected to take part.
The race
We’re upping the ante this year by offering you the chance to take part in Centurion Running’s Wendover Woods 50. The race consists of five 10-mile loops on forest trails, entirely within the picturesque Wendover Woods. The course offers the full array of ultrarunning joys: tree-lined trails, runnable climbs and, this being a Centurion Running race, some of the best volunteers and aid stations known to man.
The kit
Columbia Montrail will be providing top- to-toe kit, while HIGH5 will be providing a suite of sports nutrition including gels and recovery shakes. Participants will also receive a state-of-the-art TomTom running watch, adidas Sport Eyewear sunglasses and an LED Lenser head torch.
