Four years ago to the day, Gordon Hughes and Vic Izzy Owens took on the Lon Las Cymru, a 250+ mile ultra-marathon race by Mark Cockbain. The race only occurs every 2 years and is currently being held again with all the participants now past this point and well on their way through mid Wales.

It takes on the entire length of Wales, from Holyhead in the north to Cardiff in the South and you have a time limit of 88 hours and is the longest road ultra-marathon race in all of the UK.

No welsh person or woman had ever finished this race.

Gordon and Vic set off together to change that!

The film is on Youtube if you've never watched it, called Running Against All Odds and is one of my favourite films and documentaries I have ever put out, it's an unbelievable story and something I come back to myself when looking for inspiration.
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Today Sanna made history, she put it all out there and the Pembrokeshire Coast Path has a new record.

186 miles in 48 hours and 23 minutes.

Go check her out @sannad22run and see what amazing work @pembrokeshirecoasttrust are doing here.

Inspired by Sanna, her family and friends all supporting her, we left it all out there to make sure we could capture as much of her feat of endurance and the Pembrokeshire Coast as we could.

Both of Sannas attempts this year were documented by us and now the work begins on a full-length ultra-marathon documentary of Sanna and this record which will be released later in the year.

A big thanks to Sanna and all those around her for letting us capture such an intimate time on the trails.
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Focus on the Trail - The Beginner's Guide to Trail Running Photography is now PUBLISHED!

You can get your hands on the eBook or Paperback here https://amzn.eu/d/18IiRVj

My aim with this book, help trail runners, mountain runners and ultra marathoners slow down, enjoy the natural world that little bit more and hopefully help them take better photos of their adventures on this wonderful magic planet we all share.

I share 70+ of my own photographs i've taken on my own adventures and walk you through the basics of landscape, nature and photographing trail runners on the trail so you can hopefully take better photos of your adventures, your friends and what you see around you.

Here are some of those photos from the book which I use in specific examples throughout.

I believe this book is the first of its kind, aimed at trail runners and those that move through environments lightly and swiftly.

I want to thank so many people, events, the trail itself as this book otherwise would not have been possible.

Rachel, my wife, the most kindest and adventurous human. You have helped in so many ways to get this book out and I dedicate the book to you.

To all those i've shared the trail with, those that have supported my work with Kelp and Fern, i've met some beautiful people out there on the trail and I thank you all for those special moments.

Diolch pawb!
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After 2.5 years of writing and a crazy few weeks working out how you publish a book, it's done.

Focus on the Trail - The Beginners Guide to Trail Running Photography

Will be published next week.

The main driver for the book was to help trail runners spend a bit more time looking and taking in the sights and sounds of the trail they love running through.

Hopefully through the guide you can learn a few small things, no matter what phone or camera you are using, that will help you appreciate more of the trail and most importantly, capture better photos of your adventures that you can look back on for a lifetime!

Here are just a handful of the photos that are used in the guide as references and next week i'll do a bigger post about what to expect in the book as well as launching a video on Youtube that will give you an insight to some of the basics of trail running photography.
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