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13 Jan 2025
🏃🏃♀️Aotearoa Ultra & Sandy Point Backyard Results
“The f…ing Spaniard grass.”
23 Dec 2024
🏃🏃♀️Trail Running NZ 2024, The Year That Was
Thank you everyone for a great 2024
16 Dec 2024
Holy Spectacular Spectacle Batman!
"We were all cold and Frost bite had started to kick in... were stuck there for about an hour...”
9 Dec 2024
⛰️Kepler Results & December 14 Preview
"I sat on the side of the track for 30seconds or so to collect my thoughts and get rid of the cramp.”
2 Dec 2024
⛰️Kepler Preview
"Kepler Afterparty looking for a new DJ"
25 Nov 2024
🏃🏃♀️WAI2K RESULTS
“This is where I took the lead and started to feel super comfortable. All and all great day out - epic to experience the Welly trail running scene”
18 Nov 2024
🏃🏃♀️Munters seen Munting, Ridge Runners seen Running Ridges
"Then it clicked, all the white running shoes, all the drills”
11 Nov 2024
🏃🏃♀️Legend of The Peaks, The Taniwha & Arrowtown Update
"Josh Hastie doesn't make it back on lap 45”
4 Nov 2024
🏃🏃♀️Mission Mt Somers Results & More
"Don't call it a comeback, She's been here for years"
29 Oct 2024
🏃🏃♀️Backyard Recap & Rocky Point Results
“I hobbled home, bowed by embarrassment and the ongoing pain from my"
21 Oct 2024
🏃🏃♀️Crater Rim Results & World Champs Update
“Turns out I was feeling pretty good, so just kept the legs ticking over and tried not to blow up."
14 Oct 2024
🏃🏃♀️Taupo Ultra Results & The Final Abel Tasman Coastal Challenge
“The course record is a nice. But it wasn't sub 4 nor first...”
10 Oct 2024
🏆2024 World Backyard Ultra Champs
Plus your chance to win some free sh..
7 Oct 2024
🏃🏃♀️Rakiura Challenge, Marina 2 Marina Results
“I was lucky enough to round a corner and have a large brown kiwi chilling out on the track”
2 Oct 2024
🏃🏃♀️Cape Kidnappers, Blue Lake & More
"...batteries died between Tutuwai and Smith Creek, leaving my headtorch with nothing to power it" Charlie Ruck
23 Sep 2024
🏃🏃♀️Race Tekapo Results
Hannah Oldroyd makes it 3/3
16 Sep 2024
🏃🏃♀️The Summer Race Season Is Upon Us
'My temperature plummeted to 35.1 degrees and I kept going at that temperature for another 11 hours.'
9 Sep 2024
🏃🏃♀️Kinloch Offroad, Scenic Circles & More
2 Sep 2024
The WAI2K
A look at this years 100K National Long Trail Champs
2 Sep 2024
🏃🏃♀️Naseby, Lake Dunstan & 49 Kiwis at UTMB
"...you didn't have to be a doctor to know that something was wrong"
26 Aug 2024
🌲🌲Forest Run Fest Results
“I hate this part, I just want to time travel forward to 4 hours into the race when I'll be in the mountains, at night, settled in and doing my thing.”
19 Aug 2024
🏁Forest Run Fest & The Great Naseby Water Race
"...cellulitis in his right leg and a torn hip flexor in his left"
12 Aug 2024
🏃♀️🏃Run The Forest Results
"It’s estimated the event brought in 2.5 MILLION to the local economy"mindblowing scenery"
5 Aug 2024
🏃♀️🏃Hydro Half & Summit Forests Results
👑Shannon-Leigh Litt, Unofficial WR Holder