Hi Friends!

I am Alex and I still like running. Last year's 100K challenge was a huge success – we managed to raise £2,786 for British-Ukrainian Aid.

It's 2025 now. Unfortunately, the war in Ukraine is still ongoing and people are suffering. Today, on Independence Day of Ukraine I'm creating this fundraiser to help a bit more.

Since the long run in 2024 (check out my race report) I haven't run any ultra marathon but it won't be long till I have one, I hope. And to make it an adventure I plan to have three challenging runs (thus "Trident" in the page title) in a row:

1) On 25th of October I'll run Beachy Head marathon for the third time. I love this area of the country and there will be many friends from the different running clubs there. It doesn't make the course any easier – we all will have to tackle that hill at the very start, listening to the bagpipes. Also, in addition to 42 horizontal kilometres there will be one more in the vertical direction.

2) Then during the school half term break the whole family will fly to Mallorca. Boys and Anna to have some rest. Me too, frankly, but I also will take part in UTMB* Mallorca 50K race on 1st of November (yes, just a week after the previous one). Despite the name it's 56 kilometres, in fact. Add around 2.5K of elevation gain on top of that. And the mandatory kit doc is longer than my weekly shopping list.

3) My fellows from Ashdown Forest Trail Runners club shared Freedom Five Trails (what a title!) 50K ultra race that takes place on 8th of November. It was exactly what was needed to make this challenge complete. As you probably could guess it's not exactly 50 kilometres, we'll be out for 51K with an additional 1K vertically.

I will try my best to finish these races. Please, donate for the British-Ukrainian aid. Слава Україні!

Thank you,

Alex

* UTMB stands for Ultra Trail du Mont-Blanc – one of the biggest race in the trail/mountain ultrarunning world. To qualify for it, I completed 100K race last year and now need to get points (UTMB organizers call them "stones") to enter the ballot.