Berghaus has announced that it will be sponsoring two high profile competitors in this year’s Dragon’s Back Race™. The company is supporting Helene Whitaker, who won the original race in 1992, and Stephen Birkinshaw, seven times winner of the KIMM/OMM. Helene and Stephen have been working with Berghaus during recent months, helping to test and refine a new range of products that they will use during the race, which will be held from 3 to 7 September.

Today, Ourea Ltd - who organise the Dragon's Back Race - have joined the 1% For The Planet movement.

Having carefully reviewed the accepted entries list and made a prediction on the number withdrawals we anticipate in the weeks prior to the event, today we have made the decision to offer everyone on the waiting list a place at the 2012 Dragon’s Back Race™.

Nutrition strategies and energy balance of ultra-endurance mountain runners. If you have a confirmed entry to the Dragon's Back Race, would you also like to participate in valuable sport nutrition research?

Shane Ohly, the Race Director for the 2012 Dragon's Back Race® chats with Helene Whitaker (nee Diamantides) and Martin Stone and asks them to reflect on their victory twenty years ago.

Twenty years after winning the original Dragon’s Back Race™ Helene Whitaker (nee Diamantides) has confirmed that she will be racing again this September. Certainly, it is impressive that she remains sufficiently fit and motivated enough to take on a challenge as demanding as the Dragon’s Back Race™ but remarkably she will be joined by three other 1992 veterans.

Berghaus has confirmed that it will sponsor the Dragon’s Back Race™, a five day adventure race that will traverse the mountains of Wales in September. The Dragon’s Back Race™ enjoys near mythical status in the adventure racing community, both because it has only been held once before (in 1992) and because it proved to be such a tough challenge.

How exciting! The finishers’ trophies have just been ordered! They are going to be hand crafted bronze replicas of the original trophies. Pictured above is the original finishers trophy – don’t worry, the final ones won’t glow red!

We are very happy to be working with Joe Faulkner and his team at NAV4 for the provision of our exclusive Mountain Running Essentials™ course. This course is has been specifically designed for Dragon’s Back Race™ and Great Lakeland 3Day™ competitors but is also highly relevant to mountain marathon competitors and mountain runners.