A legend in his own backyard (and mine), Grant Guise, a Kiwi runner of standard stock recently made the trip over to our fair island to take up the challenge of the Wild Goose Chase over in Western Australia. And when Read More …
Focus this week moves over to the US once again for another of the big ones in our world, the Hardrock 100. There have been plenty of hand grenades thrown across the Atlantic in recent weeks between the US and Read More …
Yesterday we took a look at the ladies and today it’s the turn of the UTA100km men. Props again to David Longo for this painstaking research for the bulk of this preview, edited and added to again by the idiot-in-chief. The field Read More …
If you’ve been around on the Ultra scene for long enough, many of you will know Andy Hewat, one of Australia’s most experienced ultrarunners. I think in conversation once, he told me that he ran his first ultra back in Read More …
It’s time for one of the most brutal races in the Southern Hemisphere, the Northburn 100s. With around 10,000m of climbing over the 100 miler and 6,000m in the 100kms this one ranks highly in the toughness stakes, which is Read More …
The Skyrunning calendar kicks off with a bang in a little over a week’s time with the first event, The Ultra Easy 100km in what I think is one of the most beautiful places on earth, Wanaka. While most of Read More …
This coming weekend, we turn our attention to the latest race in the ANZ Skyrunning series, the Hounslow Classic. This race is exciting for a number of reasons, in that while it might be the first SkyRace in NSW, it’s Read More …
I’ve been looking forward to writing this one – this race truly ranks in the ‘take a spare pair of undies’ category. I ran this last year when it was a bit of a test event. Since then, it’s become Read More …
This weekend sees the Skyrunning series kick off with a bang and the Ultra Easy 100, a title which in itself is meant as a massive irony. The race is the first of 13 in the inaugural Australia and New Read More …
As if you didn’t notice, we were down in Bright this weekend covering Australia’s first Sky Race and what a day it was. No-one paid us to go down, we went down purely because this was the most stacked field Read More …
