Event: WonderlandDate: 24-25 August 2019Type: Off Road, TrailDistance: 2km, 8km, 20km, 36km, 60km-ishWhere: Halls Gap, Grampians, VictoriaEvent Partners/Sponsors: VFuel, Orange Mud, Footpro, Suunto I tend not to run local events because I can run them at any time. However, I figured with my ultra coming up this event would be a nice little training run …
Event: Peaks and Trails Date: 3-4 August 2019 Type: Off Road Distance: 6.4km, 11km, 22km, 26km, 50km & Mt Abrupt Challenge Where: Dunkeld, Southern Grampians, Victoria Event Partners/Sponsors: Steigen, VFuel, AGL, The Running Company, Royal Mail Hotel When your husband designs the website and agrees to be one of the photographers you get a free entry. I mean hello free …
The turn around of me doing my race recap after an event is usually pretty quick. However, the circumstances leading up to this event meant that it took me a lot longer to process, and thus meant a delay in my review. I will be honest, even now I still have no idea how I …
Hello, my running friends! Where have you been? (Or where have I been?) It has been far too long between dates, so grab those running shoes and let’s catch up with all things running related. Wow! What a quarter it has been. There are been ups, there have been downs, and there have been many …
This story is reprinted with permission from Kirsten, a run coach at Operation Move. What started in 2017 with me ‘putting my toe in the water’ with the 22km also saw me crew for Ness (who I had never met in real life but knew from Operation Move Run Club) as she took on the …
Event: Ultra Trail Australia aka UTA Distance: 11km, 22km, 50km, 100km Type: Point to Point (11 & 22), Loop (50 & 100) Where: Katoomba, Blue Mountains, NSW Start: 22km – Old Queen Victoria Hospital, Wentworth Falls Finish: Scenic World, Katoomba Event Partners / Supporters: Ultra-Trail World Tour, Aussie Grit, La Sportiva, Camelbak, Petzl, Buff, Injinji, …
When life throws you lemons, you make lemonade. Which is why there hasn’t been a check in since February. There has been running, and lots of it. My random foot issues resolved in time, and I only missed the first 2 weeks of my UTA training cycle. If you haven’t already done so, grab your …
I find that whenever October rolls around, the end of the year just flashes by way to fast. You see, from October my timeline looks like this: Are you tired yet? That, and throw in working full-time in retail. So that is why this month’s ultimate running date covers October & November. First up, what is …
A friend of mine was asking for recommendations on what to wear for running in winter, after experiencing a cold start at the Canberra Running Festival. She wanted to ensure that with the colder months encroaching she would be warm while out on her runs. I wrote down my recommendations and thought to myself, oh …
Event: Gold Rush RunDistance: 24km & 13km (ish)Type: Point to PointWhere: Hepburn Springs, Lake Daylesford, Sailors FallsStart: Hepburn SpringsFinish: Sailors Falls EstateEvent Partners / Supporters: Tour De Trails, The Running Company Ballarat, VFuel My last event for 2017 would be Gold Rush. Having missed out on this event due to injury, I was determined to …
