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By Jennifer, The crew, his wife and definitely not a runner. I sat reading Eds report and realised that I seen some of the 15 days in a very different way and for this one at least, I get to see so much more than the races. I may not run anywhere but I was there for every step of this one. 3 years ago we had this all planned, there has been a laminated map in our house since then with a route on it that had been planned and left in a corner. When Ed decided this was it, the time had come to...

This shouldn’t take long… well let’s see. It was an cold wet evening in the area of Tulsk. It’s awards night for Bens GAA football team, we were in the local hall, the Cryan’s were there. Jen and I had spoken, we had made up our mind, 2026 was the year we were going out to raise money again and if they agreed, The Zoe Cryan Trust would be the why! I grabbed Davy as we left and nervously threw the question to him, “We are looking to do a fundraiser later in the year, we were thinking of...

Ed Payne, a dairy farmer from Co Roscommon, Ireland, race report from winning the Summer Spine race, an ultra marathon of 269 miles