Claire Maxted

I'm Claire from Wild Ginger Running trail & ultra running YouTube channel and this is my film about the 2018 Cape Wrath Ultra. I signed up to the 2018 race for 3 reasons:

  1. I wanted to see and run through the stunning remote mountains of north west Scotland with the safety, support systems and camaraderie of a well organised event.

  2. I wanted to set myself a big goal, a challenge to motivate me to train throughout winter.

  3. I skipped a day of my last big race, the 6-day Coastal Challenge in Costa Rica in 2015, because I got really bad blisters in the oppressive heat, and I knew Scotland would be much more like my climate.

However, things didn’t go quite to plan, neither in training nor in the race. Here’s my story. I hope it helps you prepare if you're doing the 2021 Cape Wrath Ultra, or inspires you to sign up for the 2022 Cape Wrath Ultra, or just gives you a nice 20 mins or so of interesting running film to watch!

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