Run Walk Crawl was the vision of two Cardiff Based ultra runners Ben Morris and Joe Timmins. They had competed in ultra marathons across Britain but wanted to bring the ultra running experience to the fabulous trails they trained on in South Wales. 

Our aim is to provide challenging, exciting, adventurous events in beautiful locations.  Our basic criteria we ask for all our events is "would we like to do it ourselves?"  If the answer is yes and the powers that be will let us we will put it on for you!

South Wales offers miles of brilliant and beautiful trail running countryside, forestry tracks, mountains and coastal paths, we hope that you will come and explore it with us.  We aim to increase participation for runners of all ages and abilities into trail running events across South Wales.

We now have a team of experienced outdoor professionals, including ultra runners, triathletes, former services, physiotherapists and qualified mountain leaders. Adding to that team we have an amazing network enthusiastic and highly experienced Volunteer Marshals who like nothing more than helping you complete your challenge. 

Ben has competed in ultra running races across the uk since 2012 and as a qualified Mountain Leader and rock climbing instructor has been leading groups in the outdoors since 2004. He has an undergraduate degree in Sport and Physical Education and a MSc in Sports, Health and Exercise Science (distinction). His masters thesis investigated the effect of strength training on physiological variables of long distance running. He is a former division 1 Rugby player with a comprehensive back ground in strength and conditioning. Since retiring from Rugby he has changed his focus to ultra mountain and trail running events initially completing the Lakeland 50mile ultra marathon in 2012. He has now completed numerous ultra events including 5 completions of The iconic Dragons Back Race ('The Worlds Toughest Mountain Race'), 3 Lakeland 100milers, 2 Spine Challenger (109 miler) regarded as 'Britain’s most Brutal' 100miler, the TDS by UTMB, and numerous 40 and 50mile mountain ultras mainly around South Wales. He regularly finishes in the top 10 of local races around South Wales. He has also taken part in several multisport adventure races. Ben is co-founder of Aspire Fitness, Aspire Adventure and  Run walk crawl.  Ben has also taught on the undergraduate and postgraduate Sport and Exercise Science degrees at the University of South Wales. For Run Walk Crawl he primarily focuses on route design, event planning, race logistics and safety.

Joe is co- founder of Aspire fitness, Aspire Adventure and Run Walk Crawl and has been successfully leading groups on adventurous challenges throughout the UK for a number of years. He has trekked extensively in the Himalayas, Kilimanjaro, and Peru.  Joe is a keen ultra runner notably completing the Dragons Back Race in 2017 and 2019, the Arc of Attrition, the Lakeland 100 and 50, an Iron Man Distance Triathlon, and numerous 40 and 50 mile ultras. Joe’s mountain experience and trekking goes back to primary when his grandparents run a Youth Hostel near Wasdale Head, at the foot of Scafel Pike in the Lake District. Joe primarily focuses on start and finish logistics, race timing and entries and spends lots of time designing the beautiful medals and t-shirts for the races. Joe is a highly experienced endurance running coach and personal trainer for over 20 years having trained individuals of all abilities and fitness levels  complete numerous endurance challenges and fitness goals. 

Pete’s is a highly qualified physiotherapist and personal trainer with a masters degree in sports medicine. His interest in endurance exercise and fitness started when he was in the Army during which time he took part in the Cyprus Mountain Marathon, cross country and downhill mountain biking. On leaving the Army he helped set up the Brecon Multisport Club before founding aspire fitness. Pete has been training clients since 2003, and specialises in exercise as medicine, injury rehabilitation, and improving function in the general population. He completed his Physiotherapy degree in 2011 and since then combines his substantial knowledge of injury assessment with his unique experience in strength training making him one of the UKs top experts in the treatment and rehabilitation of injury. Pete is a director of aspire adventure, but takes a back seat in organisation due to the work demands involved in working as a part time first contact physiotherapist in a local GP surgery. Pete’s personal fitness interests include weight training and specifically Olympic weightlifting and road cycling.