I had a phenomenal day today! It was a tough 17km but the most picturesque stage of the entire race so far. Finally we were off the dusty road and spinifex grass! When we woke up this morning we were blessed with cloudy skies and a cool breeze. We ran out with energy across the [...]
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Day three is done… and boy am I thankful!!! Crap, this race is severely tough. Really, really tough. I went to bed last night staring up at the sky and wishing that I wasn’t seeing such a beautiful display of stars…Clear skies are definitely NOT what we want here! The moon was out and shining [...]
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When I blogged yesterday, it was still quite early in the day and most of the competitors hadn’t come in yet…and as the hours rolled passed, the number of casualties increased exponentially. I mean, I KNEW it was tough, but I really didn’t get a full appreciation of how tough the conditions were out there [...]
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Looking slightly possessed at check-in WWWOOOOOWEEEE that was a hard first day! It felt like a balmy 60 degrees C out there… I’ve heard rumours it was slightly cooler than that, but I simply don’t believe them. Okay, so I definitely let the nerves get to me last night. During the final briefing in Kununurra, [...]
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Swimming the English Channel wearing nothin’ but your swimming trunks and a layer of goose fat. Not that I actually tried to swim to France myself, of course. Let me explain… It all started with an email from Belinda Holdsworth, a fellow competitor from Racing the Planet Namibia. Belinda was looking for volunteers to help [...]
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Okay, back to our regularly scheduled program… Right, so I was seriously doubting my sanity going up these hills. I mean, sure, the scenery is great and the tougher the race, the better the bragging rights…. but when you’re gasping for air and your face is practically up the derriere of the person climbing the [...]
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In any race, a runner will usually encounter a series of disasters…It is inevitable (at least for me). The trick is to get them out of the way early on so that you have time to sort out a Plan B, C, or D. Disaster #1: The night before the race I was packing my [...]
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Now that I’m starting to mentally recover from this race I feel like I can start to put the experience into words. Had I tried to write this two days ago, my blog would have consisted of only profanities!! The Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc (UTMB) race is thought by many to be the hardest [...]
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I’ve already started sizing up the competition and I’m not even in Chamonix yet. I saw a guy wearing a gore-tex pac-lite jacket carrying an OMM backpack. He was showing all the signs of an ultrarunner (who else wears gear like that in normal settings?), except, of course, for the hyper alert and slightly manic [...]
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Hi all! Okay, so I’ve never actually written a race report before, so bear with me!!! The Vermont 100 Mile Endurance race was this past weekend and it was (gulp) my first 100 miler…In the days leading up to the race I was 50% basket case and 50% excited. I’m lying, actually. I was 100% basket case. [...]
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