Ultimate Bear Fight: UTMB 2016 part 2, the UTMBening

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 next valley, but on the other hand there was still 90km to go and the […]

A Great Weekend in California

I’ve been thinking about getting this blogging thing going again. On the one hand, friends who write well inspire you to get back into the practise. On the other, when they’re doing it so well, it’s good enough reason to share theirs instead 🙂 To be fair, on top of being a great host and a […]

You know you’re running 240km when…

So this is it, a week from today, 50 runners each with a support crew tagging along by car will pound out 240km on foot from the south-eastern shoreline of New South Wales to the top of Australia. We have all subjected ourselves to different methods and levels of training. Some of us have raced […]

Still 100km to get to halfway: Octember pt. 1 The Great Ocean Walk 100

Originally posted on Hoka OneOne Australia:
Between October 12 and November 10, I have set myself the challenge of running 3 100km races and a 174km trailrunning slaughterhouse on one of Australia’s toughest 100-mile courses. It’s a total of 474 race kilometres within 30 days and even with 200 kilometres already down, I don’t feel…

Big Red: Lessons from a Type 1 Runner

Originally posted on Type 1 Ultra:
This is exceptionally clear and personal storytelling. If you’re someone who loves an adventure, loves a good yarn, or has any interest whatsoever in the most uplifting moments of the human condition, then you need to absorb Duncan Read’s tale. Like a 250km run in the desert, it’s substantial, undulating,…

Our Grand Slam Year, in iRunFar.com

Stoked and disappointed. Disappointed that someone outside Team Born to Run has written our year of desert running up before I got to it, but damned if Meghan Hicks hasn’t done this piece justice in her typically superfine style. Stoked, of course, that it is Meghan putting keyboard to screen (who does pen to paper […]

Stepping up the training in Minnesota

the view this morning

A Laugh Riot

Also loving Photoshop Looter. Definitely seems to be a racial bias in who gets Photoshopped, but a lot of good image adjustments happening as well. but I think this is my favourite because it’s just blatantly ridiculous:

M7 Marathon and Pairs Relay Update

Will post cool stuff like pictures and official times tomorrow when they’re available but great day out! I ran roughly a 91:55 for the half so missed goal but still PB and couldn’t have done much more to get there…except lose about 4kg…. next time. Team mate went through the 2nd half in around 75:50, […]