UK Ultrarunner Site Launched

In article <[email hidden]>, Douglas Steel
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

Picked this up from http://www.tritalk.co.uk thought some of you
may be interested, posted here with the author's (ed_m) permission:

Ultrarunner (http://www.ultrarunner.co.uk) is a non commercial site aiming
to act as a hub and provide resources for the ultrarunning community
in the UK.

The aim is to release issues on a roughly quarterly basis, all content
contributed by readers & UK ultrarunning affcionados.

Launch Issue:
- In the racing section of this first issue of ultrarunner we're pleased
to bring you Mick Rice's report from the London to Brighton race in early
October and also look forward to the already popular Draycote 35mile race
next February.
- Martin Like presents part one of a guide to his own unique brand of
'extreme' ultras whilst Andy Milroy begins a comprehensive history of
ultrarunning in the UK.
- All this and a book review, so visit http://www.ultrarunner.co.uk soon.

Who is behind the site?
--
Ken

Ken said:

Who is behind the site?

Ed Milbourn, he's done the London to Brighton and the Sri Chinmoy
24hr race amongst others.

He has a blog here:
http://www.wibsite.com/wiblog/ed_m/

Doug

Douglas Steel said:

Ken said:

Who is behind the site?

Ed Milbourn, he's done the London to Brighton and the Sri Chinmoy
24hr race amongst others.

He has a blog here:
http://www.wibsite.com/wiblog/ed_m/

Ta for that. Nice to hear of another OS map fetishist. ;-)

Why is he so coy about putting his name anywhere on the site?

Tim

"Douglas Steel" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Picked this up from http://www.tritalk.co.uk thought some of you
may be interested, posted here with the author's (ed_m) permission:

Ultrarunner (http://www.ultrarunner.co.uk) is a non commercial site aiming
to act as a hub and provide resources for the ultrarunning community
in the UK.

Seems to be a dead link today. Not gone belly up already I hope?

Tim

Tim Downie said:

"Douglas Steel" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Picked this up from http://www.tritalk.co.uk thought some of you
may be interested, posted here with the author's (ed_m) permission:

Ultrarunner (http://www.ultrarunner.co.uk) is a non commercial site aiming
to act as a hub and provide resources for the ultrarunning community
in the UK.

Seems to be a dead link today. Not gone belly up already I hope?

Tim

Looks like a DNS problem.
I'll ping Ed and see if he knows whats happening

Doug

Douglas Steel said:

Quoted message said:

Seems to be a dead link today. Not gone belly up already I hope?

Tim

Looks like a DNS problem.
I'll ping Ed and see if he knows whats happening

Doug

Here's what I got from the site admin

"Server was attacked, and am currently trying to find the exploit
before I can bring it back on line"

Hopefully back online soon

Doug

Douglas Steel said:

Here's what I got from the site admin

"Server was attacked, and am currently trying to find the exploit
before I can bring it back on line"

Hopefully back online soon

Its back....

Doug

Hi,

I'll be adding a page with some info about myself and my running
shortly to address this.
Although really, it's not that exciting ;-)

Ed

Ken said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Douglas Steel
Who is behind the site?
--
Ken

done:
http://www.ultrarunner.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=42&Itemid=86

seem to be lacking in photos of myself just now, although there is one
of me looking distinctly miserable on the sri-chinmoy site under the
24hr results.

Quoted message said:

Hi,

I'll be adding a page with some info about myself and my running
shortly to address this.
Although really, it's not that exciting ;-)

Ed

Douglas Steel said:

Douglas Steel said:

Here's what I got from the site admin

"Server was attacked, and am currently trying to find the exploit
before I can bring it back on line"

Hopefully back online soon

Its back....

And now it's gone again.

Tim

Tim Downie said:

Douglas Steel said:

Douglas Steel said:

Here's what I got from the site admin

"Server was attacked, and am currently trying to find the exploit
before I can bring it back on line"

Hopefully back online soon

Its back....

And now it's gone again.

Tim

Apologies all, we are down indefinitely at the moment:

Quoted message said:

Basically the server is under constant attack. I thought I'd plugged
all the holes but there's been another exploit. I'm not sure how they
got in as of yet....

Anyway, to cut a long story short I've ended up with a four figure
excess bandwidth bill which has totally destroyed my budget for the
hosting server and then some, so I'm going to have to cancel it.

I hope to be up and running on an alternate host by the end of the
week.
Watch this space.

Quoted message said:

Tim Downie said:

Douglas Steel said:

Douglas Steel wrote:

> Here's what I got from the site admin
>
> "Server was attacked, and am currently trying to find the exploit
> before I can bring it back on line"
>
> Hopefully back online soon

Its back....

And now it's gone again.

Tim

Apologies all, we are down indefinitely at the moment:

Quoted message said:

Basically the server is under constant attack. I thought I'd plugged
all the holes but there's been another exploit. I'm not sure how they
got in as of yet....

Anyway, to cut a long story short I've ended up with a four figure
excess bandwidth bill which has totally destroyed my budget for the
hosting server and then some, so I'm going to have to cancel it.

Yikes! I never realised hosting a website could be so dangerous
(financially).

Quoted message said:

I hope to be up and running on an alternate host by the end of the
week.
Watch this space.

Good Luck. Do you think you might include a forum? Gotta have a forum if
you want folk to keep visiting.

Tim

Tim Downie said:

Good Luck. Do you think you might include a forum? Gotta have a forum if
you want folk to keep visiting.

Ignore him, he's a stupid irishman (a scot that hasn't learned to walk
on two legs yet) from "over there", and there they need forums.

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David. said:

Ignore him, he's a stupid irishman (a scot that hasn't learned to walk
on two legs yet) from "over there", and there they need forums.

Gotcha! REAL men don't need "forums"? Just those sissy english.

(fortunately its not my financial loss! just the kindly chap who was
hosting me (for free))

yup, forum will be in the pipeline.
likely to be a few months yet.

links section will be the next feature to appear.
archive section will appear with the next issue (as there arent any
previous issues to archvie yet!)
hmmm search function for the archive is on the list too.
next issue should be out in late Feb all being well.

after that, forums, maybe ;-)

Ed

ok.... back up and running....

www.ultrarunner.co.uk

thanks for your patience!

let me know if you spot any holes.

Quoted message said:

ok.... back up and running....

www.ultrarunner.co.uk

thanks for your patience!

let me know if you spot any holes.

You might consider changing the Iditasport link (extreme Ultra) to
Iditarod Trail Invitational (ITI) for current information. I haven't
found any live historical links to Iditasport.
http://www.alaskaultrasport.com/ITI%20home%20page.html

Iditasport was last run in about 2002, I think. The Susitna 100 was the
first to split off, then the ITI (350 mi to McGrath or 1100 mi to Nome).
I believe the Iditasport name may have been copyrighted or trademarked
or something, which partly led to the renaming to ITI since it has
different race management (by a racer for racers). Both still have the
original format of bike, run, or ski - choose weapon on race day.

Interesting reading. I've just read a little of the Extreme section.
Thanks for sharing.

Dot
in Alaska

--
"You’ll never hear me say I beat the Peak. I’ve run up there pretty
fast, and that mountain doesn’t care. I’ll never conquer the Peak." -
Matt Carpenter