Author Archives: Roger Hanney

About Roger Hanney

Ultramarathon runner. Wannabe adventurer. Writer. Australian HOKA ONE ONE guy. First person with Type 1 Diabetes to complete the 4 Deserts Grand Slam, with Team Born to Run. www.runeatsleeprun.com www.type1ultra.com

Coast2Kosci 2016 part 2: when you don’t want it bad enough to die trying just yet and go to sleep in the back of a comfy van instead.

Posted on March 17, 2017

(Continued from https://runeatsleeprun.com/2017/03/16/coast2kosci-2016-part-1-slow-beginnings/) Heading into the night stage (obviously a stage measured by light that started in different places for everyone – if, for example, you’re Andrew Tuckey, the night stage might not start until you’re back at your hotel … Continue reading →

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Coast2Kosci 2016 part 1: Slow beginnings

Posted on March 16, 2017

(taken from pages hosted by Medium – https://medium.com/time-to-fly/coast2kosci-2016-part-1-slow-beginnings-4b2282fb7a87#.xwvlsmohg Putting this here now as I’m finally getting the second bit done… similar vibe to Coast2Kosci itself actually) Every edition of Coast2Kosci has a different meaning for every person. For some it’s redemption, … Continue reading →

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Ultimate Bear Fight: UTMB 2016 part 2, the UTMBening

Posted on September 3, 2016

Heading out of Courmayeur, the feelings I had were a turbulent mix of elation and despair. On the one hand, I was still in the game. I just had to keep getting to the next checkpoint, the next summit, the … Continue reading →

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Ultimate Bear Fight: UTMB 2016 Part 1

Posted on September 1, 2016

The bucket list is an overused way to describe things that people really want to do but just aren’t going to get their shit together to do any time soon. So it’s appropriate to say that UTMB was a bucket … Continue reading →

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The Ultra Easy 100km and its gleeful crushing of the ignorant: a race report

Posted on February 1, 2016

You’ve done a 200km mountain run in September, you’ve knocked out a 240km road run in December, there’s a 100km mountain run in New Zealand this weekend and it’s almost February already – what could possibly go wrong? Let’s just … Continue reading →

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Tor Des Géants 2015 – part 2 of 3 by Roger Hanney

Posted on September 26, 2015

…continued from Part 1 of 3… The room emptied in a quick if not fully sober fashion into the side alley and once again we were on the run, or hike. With an acute awareness that this might take another … Continue reading →

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Tor Des Géants 2015 – part 1 of 3 by Roger Hanney

Posted on September 24, 2015

Tor Des Géants is a single-stage mountain run easily reduced to numbers – 330km, 24,000m D+, 200 miles, 80,000 feet, 850 starters, 6 life bases, time – but that is not the story of the Tor at all. It is … Continue reading →

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