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on August 29, 2022

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Motatapu Ultra 2025

Motatapu Ultra 2025 1 March 2025 52km, 3094 vertical meters, 10:56:41 time https://www.strava.com/activities/13755523663/overview https://www.sportsplits.com/races/motatapu-2025 Prelim Last year, for some reason (which remains unclear), 5 of us signed up to run one of the toughest trail runs. Barnaby is clearly mostly to blame. Many months of running training followed. This was unfortunately matched by an equally large amount of inactivity, overeating and ageing, followed by a fair number of character assassinations, denigrations and general despair. I was worried for a while that I might have to pull out at the last minute, having stood on a wasp nest in Northland on Wednesday and being stung 8 times. However, Dr Luff prescribed me double the maximum allowed dose of antihistamine and the swelling in my legs had mostly subsided by race day. (Whew!) So (somehow) Michal, Nev, Barnaby, Will and I were all lacking good excuses and we flew down to Queenstown on Friday afternoon....

TGS Italy 2025

TGS, Trail Grigne Sud , is part of the Italian FISky national race series and is a UTMB event. It is run annually from the shores of Lake Como, north of Milan. strava results Somehow me, Mark, Neil, and William signed up for the 22km event, complete with a serious 1800m of vert. Eek! This was a follow on from our excellent RunTheWild running trip around the Dolomites. So we 4 stayed a night in Bolzano and then trained over to Milan on Friday. Unfortunately Neil had to DNS due to work and travel commitments, but at least Mark decided to man-up and compete, in spite of his gammy knee👍! I was feeling great, after having a head cold earlier in the week. Refreshed and super excited to be racing! The forecast was not great (25mm of rain!), so shoe and clothing decisions were a bit tricky. I might have slightly bought a new running pack in Bolzano, hey, hey! (Saloman adv skin 12, plus quiver) (There's nothing as smart as using a new piece of kit for t...

Auckland Trail Hunua 2025

Auckland Trail Hunua 2025 (aka XTerra) 29 June 2025 21.6km, 917m, 2:25:55 https://www.strava.com/activities/14947348945/overview https://my.raceresult.com/346801/results Race Day Ed picked up Me, Barnaby and Juliette, and we met up with Michal, Maria K and Catherine D out there and later the rest of the Petri and RLC crowd. The day was overcast and grey, but not windy or cold. There had been heaps of heavy rain on Thursday/Friday, and so I expected the trails (and carpark) to be super muddy and wet. As it turned out, although there was a bit of water around, neither the parking nor the trails were a complete bog-fest, and I armed myself with my trusty Salomon SpeedCross and prepared for an all-in big effort! Race We started 10 minutes late (due to zealous KDB cleansing requirements), with Michal (predictably!) sprinting off ahead with Juliette at the gun. His 4 minute first kilometer put him comfortably ahead of me and Barnaby! The first part of the course is a ...

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