Running from one side of the Grand Canyon to the other and back in the middle of summer. What could possibly go wrong?

Two obvious tips – don’t do anything in the Canyon in summer, and especially between 10am and 4pm. But surely we’d be mostly done by then…

Mark Webber Wants To Get You Into His Clothing.

After a career engaged in “wheel to wheel combat” Mark Webber, the most recognised Australian Formula One driver of the modern era recently founded a new Aussie clothing brand. He’s a chiseled, gutsy, straight-shooting success story. And he wants to talk about tights. Getting off the canvas is most of the rules. More specifically he […]

Fasting Mimicking Diet, type 1 diabetes & endurance running

There’s a catchy title hey? The Fasting Mimicking Diet, or FMD, has been researched and developed by Dr. Valter Longo. It is less of a diet and more of an intervention. By restricting caloric intake and managing macronutrients (protein, carbohydrate, fats etc) within a particular ratio, the practitioner (you, if you’re giving this a go) […]

OPERATION GOATKISS, Hardrock 2018 Part 2

Continued from Part 1 (please support the awesome positive health impacts of the Telethon Type 1 Family Centre here. Thanks heaps 😊 ) Asking around about how best to prepare for Hardrock some months ago, I’d got a load of helpful advice from some very experienced runners who know the course backwards. My friend Beat gave […]

OPERATION GOATKISS, Hardrock 2018 Part 1

By Roger Hanney Part 2 posts tomorrow. If you’d like to throw some spare change toward the awesome work done by the Telethon Type 1 Family Centre in Perth, we’ve passed our $2500 fundraising goal but donations are still welcome here. They’re helping type 1 kids grow up knowing their aspirations are their only limitations. The […]

Ultra-Trail Andorra and other things I will remember forever. By Roger Hanney

Thank you Andy Hewat, we were battling together even if separated. Thank you Hailey Lauren, without your unwavering get-it-done attitude I think I would have broken. Thank you Dad, more than any other this one was for you. Prologue. When people unfamiliar with trail ultramarathon ask what you do and you reply, “I run ultra”, […]

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.

(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 reflecting on a new course record and the quantum anomalies you created folding space on […]