On the way to the 4 Deserts Grand Slam

It’s been an odd year so far. Have never done so much running, but at the same time so little racing. Even with the benefit of large altitude training blocks, the focus has been on improving and maintaining endurance for our desert races. North Face 100 in May was meant to be the release for […]

Gotye Somebody That I Used to Know stuck in my head.

Thanks Monique & HypoActive. Packing for Twin Cities…

Sorry for shonky lighting – packing at too great a rate to sort it properly right now. Such an emo day, said goodbye 😦 to someone special at the airport this morning, hardcore day of getting it done on hardly any serious sleep, still going now with a list done but packing hardly started. And […]

Twin Cities – Medtronic Marathon – Freaking out!

Just a few days now until I leave for an unexpectedly awesome US running extravaganza. The first run is the Twin Cities Marathon, and I’m being flown over for it and shown the city and the course, put up in the awesome Crowne Plaza in St. Paul, fed, watered, and shmoozed all thanks to the […]

How Monique Kicked my Ass 16,000km

To better understand that title, head over to Hypoactive where you can see it in context. They’re a group for genuinely active type 1 diabetics, and Monique Hanley is their pedal-turning headkicker. She’s actually ultra-lovely and pretty much the main reason I got it together to apply for Medtronics Global Heroes Program, which is sending […]

I Owe U One Post

Damn sloppy – too much running, not enough blogging? Ha, no such thing as too much running. And I certainly haven’t been doing it if there is. It’s a nervous exciting freaked out busy time. Heading off in 2 weeks from today to run the Twin Cities Marathon thanks to Medtronic and their Global Heroes […]

UTMB OMG & Andy Bowen 33 Marathons in full swing

Wow – what an intense weekend at Mont Blanc. Top 5 men, all Euro. Hard to know what exactly happened yet with the dust settling on bloodstained powder above 3, 000 metres. My favourite call was probably from Meghan Hicks tweeting as @iRunFar when her man and ours, Bryon, pulled the pin deep into the […]

Darrel Robins’ OxFam Trailwalker Team Announces ‘Go Slow’ Campaign

In breaking news from Sydney’s charitable OxFam Trailwalker 100km trail run/walk (f@%& you, Galloway!!), the hastily organised team of sub-elite running walkers built around Ultra168 hard man, Darrel Robins, announced that they’re going to go slow. Asked if there was any reason for the campaign of not going fast, they said that they figured it […]

Bryon Powell looking back on Western States, forward to UTMB

Despite not otherwise feeling bad, I gave up mentally. I just stopped and walked for a couple hundred meters of runnable terrain and over the next 2-3k mixed in much more walking that I had been doing over the previous 15k. It’s hard know that this defeat was almost entirely mental. – Bryon Powell, WS2011, […]

3 quick questions with Krissy Moehl before UTMB 2011

I prefer to not have bad patches 🙂 but it is a reality of life. We have to keep moving forward even when things are tough. Ultras teach us a lot of life lessons if we are open to learning them. – Krissy Moehl, 2011 Make sure to check out the latest issue of Outer […]