Two Moors Ultra Overview
7 checkpoints which double as feed stations
New event medals
New A3+ double sided waterproof route maps
Professional First Aiders
UK best trackers for all participants + web link for friends and family to monitor
Parking/post event refreshments/transport
Unique winner’s prizes
Free 3D navigation route sessions on zoom for all entrants
Generous 36 hour cut off
Fully insured
**The cut off for this event is 36 hours**
Our crew has evolved in to a fantastic support team for self navigation events such as this and our Race Control man has designed his own bespoke timing/comms system, created with your safety in mind, which Wild Running is proud to sponsor.
Runners will be able to choose from The Race With No Name Dartmoor Crossing (35 miles) and the Two Moors Ultra (100 miles), both of which follow the Two Moors Way throughout it’s length from Lynmouth to Ivybridge, crossing Exmoor, Mid Devon and Dartmoor on route.
We will provide trackers, so our team can monitor all runners 24/7 while family and friends can also track runner’s progress.
Transport to the start will be provided for those who have booked it, from Ivybridge train station car park, leaving at 6pm on Friday evening. Registration will take place at The Village Inn pub (rear garden) in Lynmouth, 19 Lynmouth St, EX35 6EH.
We have invested in our own water proof maps for the event, which you can buy from us in advance. We do strongly recommend however that you buy this map of the Two Moors Way.
Coast to Coast Castle
This 100k ultra, starts alongside the Two Moors Ultra at Lynmouth and finishes close to Castle Drogo in Drewsteignton.
It follows the Two Moors Way throughout and crosses Exmoor and Mid Devon to the northern most edge of Dartmoor, taking in open moorland, farmer’s fields, wooded valleys and the odd golf course fringe! You’ll finish at the village hall in Drewsteignton.
Trackers are provided and there’ll be four checkpoints along the way.
The cut off for this event is 18 hours, which makes it a suitable stepping stone for your first 100 miler.
Race With No Name
This is a 35 mile (just over 50k) self-nav Dartmoor Traverse with a difference. This is a challenge event or a race but we’ll be encouraging walkers to take part this year too.
The Race With No Name/Dartmoor Traverse follows the Two Moors Way route (western route).
Solos
This is the same as for previous years but we will include running guides to run alongside runners (mid and rear pack but not front runners, so race snakes can relax!).
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About The Host
As a junior, he’d been a promising endurance athlete, winning the English Schools Cross Country Senior Boy’s title, as well as the National Youths Cross Country Title, and been a member of the British Endurance Squad. When he was 18, he won a sports grant to stay and learn from the godfather of endurance running Kipchoge Keino, at his orphanage in Eldoret. Disillusion with injuries had forced him to quit competitive running at 21 and he returned to another of his passions-rugby union. He had represented Northern RFC, Basingstoke RFC, and Paris Vincennes First Team at wing and full back.
Several years later, he went on to become the Bournemouth Daily Echo’s outdoors correspondent, where he befriended and also started training with a Zimbabwean asylum seeker Williard Chinhanhu, a 62-minute half marathon runner. He bought a bike and for a brief period took up triathlon, until he realized he swam like a beach ball with a brick inside.
It took an 800km walk across Spain in 2008, the Camino Santiago, which offered glimpses of changing landscapes (yes he went boho for a while!) for him to finally quit his job as a newspaper journalist. It flashed up the need to do something he loved doing. So in 2012, he set up his own business called Wild Running and was given a Unltd social entrepreneurs award.
The aim was simple: to take unemployed people out running on Dartmoor once a week. They provided the transport and picked people up en route. He knew firsthand about the benefits of off-road running for boosting resilience and well-being, as well as improving your running longevity. Ceri had little cartilage left in his knees (a legacy of his years playing rugby) and found road running a challenge. He felt he did not need to gather any scientific evidence to know about these benefits, as he’d already spent a lifetime acquiring the experience.
Having mainly lived and worked in large towns and cities: Newcastle, Madrid, Paris, Buenos Aires, Cuzco, he found that there was always one thing that connected them all on a visceral level…Running through nature.