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UK Trail Running Shock: Ourea Events Collapse + UTMB Broadcast Confusion (Singletrack News)

Singletrack

Finn Melanson

Wilderness, Sports, Trail Running, Ultramarathon, Ultra Running, Running, News, Sports News, Mountain Running, Ultrarunning

5.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s edition of Singletrack News, we break down a major development in the UK trail running scene after Ourea Events - the organizers behind races like Dragon’s Back, Cape Wrath Ultra, and the Northern Traverse - announced they are ceasing trading, putting several iconic races in jeopardy and leaving athletes uncertain about the future of some of the sport’s most ambitious point-to-point events. We also discuss confusion surrounding UTMB’s new broadcast partnership with FloSports. A...

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0:53.0

March 16th edition of single track news, joined as always by

0:56.5

Alyssa Clark. Alyssa, how are you doing today? I'm all right. I mean, we're recording on the

1:01.9

Iads of March and, you know, nothing too catastrophic today has happened. So, you know, but we're

1:09.2

the aides of March. How are you doing, Finn?

1:11.9

Okay, I'm going to say something embarrassing. I don't even know what theides of March is.

1:16.5

Oh, okay. So Caesar, I believe it was the day that Caesar was killed by the other senators. And he famously says et to Brutai because Brutus kills Caesar. And he, Caesar had previously

1:33.5

believed that Brutus was on his side. So it's the ultimate betrayal. And so this happened. And I'm so

1:40.6

sorry to the history nerds out there. This happened on the 15th. And Caesar's kind of warned, beware the aides of March, which is March 15th.

1:49.3

Okay.

1:49.8

I learned something new.

1:50.7

And now I'm wondering, is this applicable to trail?

1:54.1

Is someone getting betrayed a trail soon?

1:57.8

True.

1:58.7

But I will say, I think, I feel like it's maybe marks the atmosphere of UK trail running scene right now.

2:06.5

There's a lot going on.

2:07.6

So maybe that's our segue.

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