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Sounds like the team relay race was a great event and congrats on getting your ultra coaching qualification, that's awesome Ben! Best of luck for the upcoming challenge, better get some pole practice in indeed 😝

Congrats on the running qualification Ben! Looking forward to hearing all about the Swiss 100. Enjoy the training!

Thank you and we very much look forward to see you Ben and Carla at our race in a few weeks.

Well done Ben on the coaching qualification! I've been looking at the Swiss Alps Ultra as well! My brother has recently moved out there and it's the first thing he told me about. I'm actually going out in a few weeks to see him and will definitely be spending some time in the mountains. All the best with the race, I'm keen to see the video!

Look forward to having you out here mate! Congrats on the coaching, see you soon!

Just discovered your channel and really enjoying it. I'm also from Brighton, just getting into ultrarunning. I'm running half of the south coast ultra in september as my first event. Race in Switzerland looks amazing!

Nice one Ben 🙌 Best of luck with the coaching and also the race in Switzerland 🇨🇭

You have had a busy month! Congratulations on the coaching qualification.

Swiss Alps is going to be epic!!! Love the sound of Carla's race too. I am sure you guys are going to have a wicked time! 😎🤘

Great video. Got my first 100 miler in September so it was good to watch your journey and get a feel for what i might expect on the day. Cheers 👍🏻

Absolutely loved watching this 😊

Watching you break down your kit for the UTS 100K was like diving into a treasure trove of ultra-preparedness, Ben, hehe! It's just like that saying, "Failing to prepare is like preparing to fail."

Ben what shoes would you recommend for this course? Could road shoes be used?

Awesome performance Ben and massive congratulations. I am doing the Snowdon trail marathon in July and I found your video very instructive. Regarding nutrition, i experimented with carrying more water - 2 litres - at last weekend's Uk ultra South Downs 50k. Aim to repeat this at Snowdon as could be hot and exposed. It will be my first mountain marathon and i fully expect also to be taking on more food than usual. I note how technical the Pyg track is. Later in my marathon we go up there to the finger post so i expect to walk that! Have been doing hill repeats accumulating a lot of gain over a short distance to try and prepare for Snowdon. We come down the Llanberis path which looks easier though steep at the top. Thanks for the tip about how wet some of the terrain could be. I will take spare socks! Excellent video and well done Ben.

I can’t get over those incredible views, what an amazing race. Great work Ben, managing to run that and make such a high quality video 🧡 you did a fantastic job bud. Great tips too. I’m running an ultra in snowdon in October so will be watching this a few times in readiness 🙌 that DNF rate was high wasn’t it! Great work and thanks for sharing Ben

Amazing!! Great video. Thanks for sharing. 👍131

Well done, excellent effort :)

Did the same thing turning 30. Turn 35 this summer... Time to bring back the tradition

Brilliant work Ben

Infinity Bogs are a great band!

Hi mate, this is Robin at 2:51 - 2:58 in your video, we shared a few miles in the second half too. Good to meet you and happy you had someone for the end of the race too, it really helped me as well. I'll follow you on socials now, well done mate!!

Great watch mate. You absolutely crushed it. The toughest UK 100KM.

Watching you conquer the Ultra Trail Snowdonia was absolutely incredible, Ben! The way you pushed through those brutal climbs and technical descents, all while managing to keep us entertained with your footage, is simply amazing. Loved hearing about the camaraderie on the trail, especially meeting those guys from Norway and Sweden. Congrats on finishing, and kudos to Carla too! Looking forward to your next adventure!

epic as always Ben! That looked proper tough but you got it done and in epic style. I hope you're really proud of yourself! :) it's so lovely to find people that you just click with to do parts of races with isn't it! Hope the body and mind have recovered now and you've got some slightly less brutal terrain events coming up?

Fantastic Ben. Well done 👏👏👍

This is the true definition of epic! I am absolutely blown away Ben. Massive, massive kudos to you bud. What a stunning place to race. Beautiful and brutal! 👌 Not sure it's a race I will do myself but certainly somewhere I would love to do some running. Massive well done to Carla too. You guys are a great team. 😎🤘

Incredible achievement in what looks like an incredible location! Congrats!

Thanks for sharing Ben, really inspirational! Well done on completing this challenge and I look forward to hearing about your next one!

Really well-crafted video. Although we know little about this type of running you made every aspect fascinating. Massive achievement on completing it without the luxury of readily available mountains to run on. Have you ever considered the Bob Graham Round? A couple of runners in our club have completed it recently. I guess it's too far for all the reccying?

Amazing Ben well done! 🙌

Well done, lad.

Another great video Ben, I will never complain about under foot conditions on the downs again, I am not actually sure how I would be over those conditions, I guess you get used to them. What an incredible race and experience, well done very inspiring 👍

Congratulations on a cracking race, but also a very useful race report!👏

Fantastic achievement Ben. I'll hopefully get you up some hills in Scotland the next time you are here. Thanks again for sharing.

Thanks for sharing - great run in that heat!

Great video Ben. Fine work all the way round 🫡🫡 🫡

Second time lucky finishing the 50k this year, and have to keep reminding myself.. don’t enter the 100k yet! At least do a normal one first 😂 well done finishing this.. the videos are making it look way too do-able.. but like you, that 5 hour trip to anything mountain like is the tough bit. I just have to remember don’t enter the 100k yet.. others to do first 😂

Well done, Ben! That looked absolutely epic. Fairly sure you'll be watching this in years to come and reminiscing!

love this ultra run report. you were lucky with the weather. very strange about the boggy areas,I would not expect that. I would be quite interested to hear about your fueling🌱another time. Thanks for sharing your amazing achievement !⛰

Great work mate! I live in the Swiss Alps, and this region in Wales is way more technical to where I train, so you did amazing to conquer this terrain and mountain range.

What an achievement Ben! It's been really inspiring to follow your ultra running journey up to this point, taking on a really tough 100k. The first climb already looked brutal with very technical terrain. I imagine it's physically but also really mentally challenging to have to pay attention to the terrain at all times. When watching I was wondering what bits of kit you maybe regretted taking with you or wished you had, so I'm glad that you'll cover that in the next video!

Great film. That looked soooo tough. Mountain running seems to be at least 70% hiking. Congratulations on finishing it and again loved the film

Absolute fantastic effort Ben, many congratulations, that terrain is not to be taken lightly👏

Gosh you've come a LONG WAY since you started your youtube channel Ben, seems like such a short time ago!!! Back in 2021, you were still dreaming of such feats!! 6400m in 22hrs!!! WOW!!!!👏👏 And such an awesome video to commemorate such an awesome race too!! Sounds like you're gonna do it again, next year?? I'm lying on my bed watching with throbbing feet after completing a trail marathon this morning with 1160m of gain... an elevation PB for me in a single run, so though it's still early days for me, I'm definitely slowly getting up there!! I remember asking you for a bit of advice back when I still hadn't even achieved 1000m in a week!!🤣🤣You and Carla definitely inspired me to start packing on the elevation!🙋‍♀

Great video Ben! It really captures the complexity of those climbs around Snowdonia. It was lovely to bump into you en route & thank you for your words of encouragement. What are you planning for your next race?!

Nice one Ben 🙌 Thanks for sharing your insights into your race. Always great videos 🎥 👏

Was looking forward to this one, congrats! and another great video

Very jealous of your white desert cap! I was COOKING in my dark cap & black shirt 🤣 Those infinity bogs were brutal wearnt they 🤣 Cracking effort Ben 🔥👏🏽

Loved this! What a day out!

Loved it. Thanks for sharing and can't begin to imagine how tough that was on reality. I've decided to go back and finish the 50k. Thoughts on whether you'd do it again?