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Sean Young

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🏃‍♂️ Competitive UK Trail Runner 🇬🇧
📈 Training 5x a week | Chasing the sharp end
🏁 Next race: Wendover Woods Marathon
🎯 Road to UTMB 🏔️

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Official race photos are out 📸 @runthroughtrails

Only got a couple 🙃

Sea2Sky 25K, Snowdonia🏔️

One seriously tough day in the mountains. Plenty of climbing, plenty of suffering, and absolutely nothing left in the tank by the finish 😂

Really happy with how it went. 🏅

#snowdonia
#trailrunning
#mountainrunning
#utmbworldseries
#trailrunner by @mountains_running_adventures

Every journey has a starting line.

This is mine 🏔️

My first trail race, Salcey Forest Half Marathon.

First male. 🥇

A small step, but the beginning of a bigger adventure. The goal is to keep improving, keep exploring, and see where the trails take me.

From local trails to bigger mountains. The journey towards UTMB starts here.

A huge thanks to @bigbearevents for putting on a brilliant first trail race experience 🌳

#trailrunning
#uktrailrunning
#trailrunner
#utmbworldseries
#runningadventures by @mountains_running_adventures

Pen Y Fan summit ⛰️🌤🌞🌄

#mountains
#wales
#hiking
#adventure
#summit by @mountains_running_adventures

Marathon training officially starts now. 🏃‍♂️
Session 1 of the build done ✅

30-minute warm-up → 6 × 1-minute downhill efforts with 3-minute recoveries → 10-minute cool-down.

Working on downhill speed, control and confidence as I build towards Wendover Woods Marathon. 🌲⛰️

One session down. Plenty more to come.

Let’s go. 🔥

#trailrunning #runningcommunity #runnersofinstagram #uktrailrunning #running by @mountains_running_adventures

Quick pit stop on the way back from Wales 🥾

After racing up Snowdon on Saturday, I couldn't resist stopping for a little hike up The wrekin before heading home.

Great views and and was a pretty decent way to end the weekend. ⛰️🌄

#thewrekin
#shropshire
#hikinguk
#ukhiking
#weekendadventure by @mountains_running_adventures

Looking forward to heading to Wales today for my training run up Cadair Idris tomorrow 🏔️🌄

#trailrunning #wales #mountainrunning #running #trailrunninguk by @mountains_running_adventures

First UTMB Index race done 🏔️🏃‍♂️

Snowdon Sea to Sky 25K. Came to race this one properly and gave it everything right through to the finish. Finished 35th out of 392 runners, so pretty bloody happy with that! 💪

Excuse the heavy breathing 😂

What a race and what a place. 🏔️

Massive thank you to @runthroughtrails for putting on such a spectacular event. 👏

Hopefully I'll be back next year to improve on 35th place 🏃‍♂️⛰️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Until the next one... ⛰️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏃‍♂️

#trailrunning
#wales
#running
#runningmotivation
#runnersofinstagram by @mountains_running_adventures

So I entered my first ever race this year on Sunday 28th June at the local Salcey Forest 🌲 Half Marathon Trail Race and somehow finished 1st male 🥇 and 2nd overall! 😂

I had absolutely no idea at the time!

Then, on 11th July, I took on the Maverick races Chiltern Hills Half 25K, with 600+ metres of elevation ⛰️. I finished 58th out of 341 runners, putting me in the top 17% of the field, all without any specific hill training! 💪

Since then, I've well and truly caught the trail running bug 😂🏃‍♂️⛰️

I've signed up for plenty more races to keep me fully booked for the rest of this year and into 2027. The best thing about having races in the calendar is always having something to train for and aim towards 💪

It also gives me plenty of excuses to get out into the mountains every weekend, whether that's a proper training run or just a casual hike to take in the views ⛰️🌄🌤️🌅

So, here's my race calendar for the rest of 2026 and into 2027! 🏃‍♂️⛰️🏴🏁

Really looking forward to racing with all the amazing race organisers and discovering some new trails, mountains and challenges along the way! 🏃‍♂️⛰️🔥

Bring on the rest of 2026 and 2027! 💪🏁

Which one of these races would you most like to try? 👇

#mountainrunning #trailrunninguk #trailrunning #ultratrailsnowdonia #utmbworldseries by @mountains_running_adventures

Cader Idris summit from last weekend ⛰️

Back in Wales next weekend but dont think I'll have time to summit a mountain 😭

Only enough time to race probably 😬

I'll be back on the mountains as soon as possible for sure!

#wales #mountains #hikingadventures #summit #adventures by @mountains_running_adventures

Throwback to Wales a few years ago. 🏔️📸

Heading back to Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (Pen y fan) this weekend for a long training run.

Can't wait to get back into the mountains and put some work in, for my future races! 🏁 ⛰️💪

#uktrailrunning
#trailrunninguk
#mountainrunning
#walesmountains
#trailrunner by @mountains_running_adventures

Easy run then 1.5km of 5.00/KM pace then easy run again.

Last run before race day on Saturday so my legs will hopefully be fresh and ready to go! 🏃‍♂️⛰️🏁

Sea2Sky 25KM Snowdon let's go!

#running #runningmotivation #trailrunning #runnersofinstagram #trailrunning by @mountains_running_adventures

Last week's golden hour in the mountains 🌄

#mountain
#sunrise
#mountainviews
#wales
#goldenhour by @mountains_running_adventures