It does seem odd that they pared back with a focus on a few races for 2026 and then decided that none of it is viable.
I think blaming Brexit is very weak sauce as well, although it plays well as a convenient dog whistle. If anything, international entries have increased with advent of Golden Trail and the UTMB juggernaut, plus the WTM attention with SDW100.
He makes it read like international runners weren’t coming to the UK, which isn’t true at all. They may not have been coming to his races but that’s a different problem.
The Covid reasoning holds more water. When your business model relies on people staying in tents with folks they don’t know with very sparse washing, then yes, you’re going to see a pretty slow recovery from that,
It will be interesting to see if there is an announcement from UTMB re Skyline. We know they are looking for a race in Scotland, and here’s one, lying on the ground that has just become available.
Who is blaming Brexit?
Not mentioned in that blog post unless I’m missing something
Edit: ah I see in the ceasing trading announcement. Agreed, can’t really see that is much of a factor. Plenty of European entrants in The Spine, for example
Showing my ignorance a bit here and although I’ve heard of some of those races I don’t remember the organisers, but I must have looked at some point when I heard about Cape Wrath ultra.
Just looked at the northern traverse and it’s essentially the C2C which I do fancy one day!
The Moors traverse starts where I do my standard trail training route.
I think they accept the UTMB juggernaut which probably isn’t helping smaller events.
Would that require shutting down the business though? I would have imagined that running Skyline as a UTMB race wouldn’t preclude the organisers from running their other events? Or maybe it does.
I wouldn’t be surprised if UTMB picked Skyline up, it fits the model and it is easier to rebrand an existing race than create a new one. But I don’t understand why that would kill the other races… unless there’s something I’m missing in race organiser’s relationships with UTMB.
Now I may have mis-heard this, as I was listening to a podcast in the car on Tuesday, but I’m sure Jame Ellson said that Shane has a medical service contract with UTMB.
which I do fancy one day!
how I laughed 
I’m expecting quite a bit of walking but I’ll see.
