Month: December 2024

My First Backyard Ultra

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Backyard ultramarathons are a weird type of last man standing competition. It’s a battle of never-ending endurance. The strategies required to succeed defy all traditional “racing” ideologies. I ran my first backyard ultra recently and failed to get anywhere near my planned goals. I had a difficult time trying to grasp the format and still … Read more

GPT100 – A Tale of Two Races

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Training for the Grampians Peaks 100 Miler has been my primary running goal for the past 20 or so months.  It all started with a message from Joseph Nunn on 26 March 2023. We’d just finished running kunanyi Mountain Run and somewhere in the post-race slump, strewn out on a bean bag in the sun, … Read more