Last week I went for a run with Nick from the Harcourts Beach Series and Jason from Triathletes Corner on the new 8km Coastal Run, which is one of the events at the weekly beach series returning on November 3rd. The other events are the 5km and junior 2.5km beach runs; 500m, 1000m, 1500m and […]
After Saturday’s DNF at The Hillary, I have set myself an audacious running goal. But it’s a secret for a couple of reasons, and will require flagging some of my runs in Strava as private. The goal itself is still a year away and quite possibly impossible for me to accomplish, and I will only reveal […]
The Hillary is an 80km ultra marathon, 34km run and 16km run/walk, following the Hillary Trail in the Waitakere Ranges in Auckland, New Zealand. I ran at the second edition of the 80km ultra on Saturday March 14th 2015 but failed to finish, missing the cut off at Piha, and wouldn’t have continued even if […]
I ran over 1,100kms in my last pair of Inov-8 Roclite 315 shoes, and the 100km at Tarawera last Saturday was just a bit too much in them. I wear the sole tread out on the outside of the shoe quite badly, and the lack of support on the outside of my feet lead to a […]
I ran the Tarawera Ultramarathon 100K race on Saturday, February 7th 2015 in 14 hours and 36 minutes. Training My training to build up for this event was going reasonably well until I started having some issues with the longer runs in November and then hardly ran at all in December. Before Christmas, I was considering not […]
I’d run the full Hillary Trail once before as part of a group during Midnight Midwinter Madness a couple of years back, and have run most of the trail multiple times during other running events or while out for training runs. And now, finally, Shaun Collins of Lactic Turkey Events had managed to get approval […]
I ran the inaugural ORCA Trailblazer Marathon on Waiheke on Saturday November 16th 2013, in what proved to be a tough but rewarding course. My run I’ve only run on Waiheke once before when I ran the “Wharf 2 Wharf 2 Wharf” with some friends back in July. That was a road run, but as […]
The Fullers Wharf 2 Wharf on Auckland’s Waiheke Island has several events, ranging from the full 25km race from Orapiu to Matiatia, to 13km and 12km events from Orapiu to Onetangi or Onetangi to Matiatia and a shorter 7km from Kennedy Point to Matiatia. On Sunday July 28th 2013, I set off with 5 friends […]
The Blackmores Xterra Trail Run/Walk Series at Riverhead is a good old fashioned muddy forest run, which this year was on Sunday June 9th 2013. The weekend before the event, I ran at Riverhead with some friends on a sort cross between the mid and long courses and it was fairly dry and not very […]
In Part 1 of my Wild Turkey Off Road Marathon review, I looked at the event in general and here in Part 2 look at my own race. There were 13 of us who started the full marathon about 7:40am on Saturday April 6th 2013. Only 12 finished – one of our group apparently had […]