FindTrail.co Updates

Martin

In this thread I will share updates made on the www.findtrail.co website where you can find ultra-marathon races and fuelling for your adventures using data.

Martin

First Week January 2026 Updates

At the end of 2025, we had every single ultra-marathon race in Wales in our database and each race has over 80+ data points, meaning you can find races based on very specific queries.

One of the biggest feature updates in the past few weeks has been the option to select multiple filters when finding an ultra-marathon race at the same time and then clicking apply. Before you could only use a single filter at a time, let the page reload and then select the next filter, now you can do it all in one go!

In the background over the last few months we've been slowly adding the rest of Scotland and England ultra-marathon races to the database.

The great news is that the majority of races for the entire of the UK are now in the site.

The next step is that each day, the data is triple checked and everything is done manually, there is zero AI involved here!

Today, like every single day for 2026 we check the data for the race and then publish the race, each one takes a minimum of an hour to do ourselve's, but its vital we're publishing data that represents the race.

Today we published The Winter Spine Race, 418km of glorious Pennine Way and we'll continue to publish each and every race in the UK!

When we add new races, you can use the ultra-marathon race comparison tool, found nowhere else online to compare each and every facet and detail of the races on the site. Now you can compare the Winter Spine Race with the 60+ other ultra-marathon races we've added to the database.

And our final update this week is that we've started a trail running community, in collaboration with Kelp and Fern and For The Trail, which is where I release my trail and ultra-marathon documentaries. If you didn't know, I just released a film featuring Sanna Duthie as she took on the 186 miles Pembrokeshire Coast Path, you can watch that here.

You can join the Trail Running Circle and discuss the FindTrail.co website, how it works, suggest feature updates, discuss your adventures and fuelling strategies and much more!

Thanks,

Martin

Second Week January 2026 Updates

At the end of 2025 we "thought" we had every single ultra-marathon race in Wales on the database, well we didn't.

In the last week, we've added two more races in Wales:

The Marreg by Narberth Nobblers which is a 78km/46 mile ultra-marathon in Pembrokeshire, taking on the quiet yet magnificent Preseli Hills and then making it's way on to the Pembrokeshire Coast Path and finishing at Whitesands near St Davids.

https://findtrail.co/race/narberth-nobblers-the-marreg-76km-ultra-marathon-in-april-near-pembrokeshire

The second latest Welsh ultra-marathon is the Sirona 100 mile ultra-marathon that starts in Barmouth and finishes in Cardigan, taking on the Ceredigion Coast Path, a 100 mile section of the larger Wales Coast Path.

https://findtrail.co/race/sirona-100-mile-ultra-marathon-near-the-ceredigion-coast-path-in-july

As well as Wales, we've also added a number of other ultra-marathon races from Scotland and England as we continue to add every single ultra-marathon from the UK and beyond.

The West Highland Way ultra-marathon, a 96 mile ultra taking on the iconic West Highland Way National Trail.

https://findtrail.co/race/west-highland-way-152km-ultra-marathon-race-near-fort-william

And the absolutely iconic Cape Wrath Ultra by Ourea Events.

https://findtrail.co/race/cape-wrath-370km-multi-stage-ultra-marathon-race-in-may-near-highlands-of-scotland

Compare Races Side by Side

Remember, you can compare all of these races side by side on our one of a kind race comparison tool at https://findtrail.co/race/compare

Where you can diff and compare over 80+ data points from each race.

Join The Community and Suggest New Features

We add these updates and more at our Trail Running Community and you can join the Trail Running Circle and discuss the FindTrail.co website, how it works, suggest feature updates, discuss your adventures and fuelling strategies and much more!

New Features On The Website

There have been a number of new features added to the site, including but not limited to:

Add and remove data columns on the advanced race discovery tool, we limited this to 8 columns where you can see the basics such as name of race, photo of the landscape, video of the race, difficulty score, elevation, distance, month of race and a link to compare that race with others.

At the top of the discovery tool you can now add and remove extra columns, more than 50 of them in fact.

Do you want to see races with the longest average categorised climb length? Check the checkbox for that data to show it on the table below the filters and then sort by that column: https://findtrail.co/race?views_fields_on_off_form%5Bfield_race_avg_cat_climb_length%5D=field_race_avg_cat_climb_length&fields_on_off_hidden_submitted=1&search=&order=field_race_avg_cat_climb_length&sort=desc

You'll now see a list of the current races on the website sorted by those with the biggest categorised climb lengths in their race. So if you're looking specifically for a race with very long climbs, that will help you narrow down your search!

It's features like this which are unavailable anywhere else on the internet and every single data point and feature of this site is manually created, there is no AI involved as this is a passion of mine and I hope to help you all find races and adventures based on the specific requirements you have.

This site wouldn't be possible without your support so if you find it helpful it would mean the world if you could donate so that I can keep it free for everyone to use and also put more time in to it https://ko-fi.com/findtrail

Save Races To Your Wishlist

The final update this week is that you can now find races and save them to your own wishlist, go to the race page, click "Add to wishlist" and then at My Account > My Race Wishlist it should appear here.

Added The Race Map

You can now start to look at races via a map and select them based on where they are in the UK using our new race discovery map: www.findtrail.co/race/map

See you next week with more updates!

Thanks,

Martin