The Ring O' Fire race was new for 2012, the race was to be staged over 3 days circumnavigating the Isle of Anglesey. The brake down of each days was as follows :
· Day One - 32mile with 4111ft in height gain
· Day Two - 64mile with 5906ft in height gain
*All 3 days totalling 131mile with 13,695 feet of vertical ascent*
· Day Three - 35mile with 3678ft in height gain
Once entered I knew this was going to be my biggest challenge to date with not having raced any distance over the famous 26.2mile marathon distance. But I saw this as a great opportunity to 'have a go' at an ultra and better still on my home ground of Anglesey. 31st of August soon come around and it was race day, with day one not starting till 1pm in the afternoon it was a matter of getting up as normal trying to stay calm till the afternoon. I turned up at Holyhead (where the race was due to start from) at 11am to collect my race number and be in time for my safety briefing from the team before we were off. On arriving and collecting my number the reality of having to run 131mile was really sinking in now, but nether the less I was really excited to get my teeth into the race. With the race being a sell out of 100 places in the 1st year, I knew there was going to be some good competition. As 1pm come near it came out that only 64 runners had made it to the start line with some pulling out for reasons beyond their help and others realising there weren't ready to take on such a mammoth challenge. 

During day one I had many ups and downs during the event. Positives I had were being on home ground I had a great support team (members of my family). As the aid stations went by I was soon realising that as long as dad kept putting fuel into me at each station it meant I could maintain a decent speed throughout. The course was made up of lots of rocks, beaches and hard packed services, lots of angry cows! and with many climbs during the 32mile the race was starting get the better of many runners, with people dropping out all over. I came through to complete day one in a very happy 10th overall in a time of 6hours & 2minutes.
(Half way point on day 1)
Day two was a task in it's self just to get up and start running again before even thinking of running 64miles. Setting off at 6am it was a 4:30am wake up call and time to fuel up for the ultimate mammoth day out of the three. In my mind all I had was 'just get through today and tomorrow is another day'. Once 5 mile had passed by I started to feel a little more with it now and my pains had gone to the back of my head while I was now focused on completing the 64mile, this was made even harder by having to run the majority of the distance alone and self navigated in the dark and the rain later on in the day. Checkpoints passed by with me having a good re-fuel at each point from my parents who had been driving and standing around for hours trying to follow and offer me the best support possible. With getting really tired and less aware I made a big mistake and missed my turning to one checkpoint and ended up going past by 1.5km before realising and having to turn back to check in at the checkpoint, after this I was even more determined to get back on track and focus harder. With day two being such a long distance the day past by and it was soon night fall and getting very dark! As people started to change kit over to jackets and head torches I knew I was getting closer and closer with each step to completing day two what many never did. Day two saw even more runners drop out from the race with exhaustion or injury, but I continued to battle on determining no matter what I would get to the finish line. After running for 15hours and 49 minutes I finally finished the course coming over the line in 14th overall for the day.
(Suffering at a checkpoint while being fuelled by Dad) 
Waking up at 4:30am on the 2nd of September for the final day felt impossible, having run hard over very long distances for the last two days I was noticeable struggling to even get out of bed and stand up. But never the less there was a task to be done and that was to complete day three of 35miles with 3678ft in height gain. Again setting off at 6am the air was nice and cool and light had just started to come through. Today saw a even smaller number of runners set off into the distance to embark on their final challenge, instantly I noticed today was different to the last two, runners seam to all run in small groups rather than on their own. This was great for me as I had spent the last two days really running a lot on my own and today of all days I could really do with some help and company, I'm glad everyone left was feeling the same way! As the miles pasted by my legs started to feel a little better then when I set off and decided to push our little group a little faster towards the next aid station/check point.
(Day 3 running group)
The 4 of us who had formed worked very well together, we all took our turn at pushing on in the front and helping each other through some difficult times during the last day, and I'm very thankful I had these 3 guys with me to the end. Down to the last 10mile of the whole challenge the sun decided it would throw one last thing at us and come out very strong and the day instantly turned very very hot to run in. With the last 10mile containing a lot of climbing we all started to really suffer and decided we would drop the pace slightly and stay as a unit to get each other to the finish line. 7+ hours passed and I finally crossed the line! WOW the best feeling ever, I couldn't believe I had managed to complete such a gruelling challenge. I was by far the youngest competitor by a good few years but I was over the moon to have stayed and not shown my self up with some very experienced ultra runners over the weekend. Around the finish area was a great buzz with everyone very happy to be apart of only the very small amount of runners to complete such a challenge.(With only 28 runners completing the whole weekend including myself). This was an amazing experience for me and was very happy to have completed the challenge but I really couldn't of done it with out my support crew (my family) and the kit I was wearing (Salomon). The kit made a huge impact in the race for me as it kept me cool, comfortable and chaff free all the way round. My main kit consisted of :
· Salomon S-Lab Advance Skin 5L
· Salomon S-Lab Exo SS Tee
· Salomon S-Lab Exo twinskin shorts
· Salomon Exo calf guards
· Salomon S-Lab XT Softground trail running shoes.
(Crossing the finish line)
Overall results : 9th overall in a time of 29hours and 36minutes