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Hopefully, it won’t come as too much of a shock to people when I say that athletic performance really is a fleeting thing. When you’re on the wrong side of age 40, chances are your days of setting personal…

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The short version: once again, I ran further, did longer races and had some pretty OK results. The long version: This year saw me find some new challenges – longer races, some pretty epic events when it comes to…

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That. Was. Epic. I should have realized that when Stephanie Grace Berry and George McNeur, two highly experienced and nature-loving trail runners, decided to put on an ultra marathon, that it wouldn’t be a regular sort of an event.…

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Running ultramarathons is a weird thing. My wife, while being massively supportive of the hours I spend training and racing, can’t quite work out what would motivate someone to go out and smash themselves for hours and hours running…

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Running a marathon, as a kind of life goal, is an ambition that most people can understand. That’s not to say that everyone will have that ambition, or complete it, but with half a million or so people completing…

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Last year I was fortunate enough to race in the inaugural Old Ghost Ultra, an incredible 85km mountain trail race run between Seddonville and Lyell on the West Coast of New Zealand. The story of the Old Ghost Ultra…

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Pro tip: spending a month travelling overseas and doing almost no running (admittedly lots of walking but it’s not quite the same) isn’t the generally accepted best practice going into an ultra marathon. Another generally frowned upon strategy is…

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The trail running community is a close knit one so when ultra running stalwart Steve Neary was tragically killed in a motor vehicle accident earlier this week there was an outpouring of grief and, equally, memories of the larger-than-life…

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My first 100km was also the inaugural running of this race – awesome to be one of the first runners to do an event. That was awesome, but the race itself, at least for me, was awful. I’d met…

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