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 […]

Insulin, Running Shoes, and Penguins

Five years ago I was most of the way through a Masters in Environmental Law at Sydney but losing the drive to see it through. Now, I run up to 280km per week and race ultramarathons in exotic desert locations around the world. What happened? The answer isn’t what you’d expect, believe me. Aged 33, […]

Insulin, running shoes, and penguins.

Anton Krupicka Interview – the rise of the Euros, US running culture, and 100 milers

Well, the weekend of Reckoning is approaching. Just want to finish getting my drop bags together and hit the Great North Walk with all lessons learned and physical conditioning on board. Writing for Outer Edge, I had a chance to interview Anton Krupicka a few months ago when putting together this article, Dirty Foreign Adventures. […]

Hey Colorado, Is this your best trail running?

So heading to Twin Cities for the marathon soon but right after that will be getting lost in Colorado for 4 days with an SUV, my Hokas (ooh yeah), my Salomon Advanced Skin 12L backpack (also an ooh yeah) and some serious trail running lust. Any Coloradans or runners who’ve traversed Colorado want to weigh […]

Kickass long playing 55 minute UTMB 2011 video

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 […]