With very little potential for stair training in Brisbane before the inaugural Hounslow Classic on 10th October, I figured Brisbane’s tallest stair race, the 55 floor River to Rooftop, was a great opportunity. Of course, I have never done a stair race before and demonstrated my extreme ignorance at the start line. As the announcer… Read More River to Rooftop
On the way to the start line of the inaugural 50km Coastal High 50 at O’Reilly’s, a male regent bowerbird (with its distinctive yellow and black markings) flew overhead. The morning was crisp, the birds were singing and it knew it was going to be a beautiful day. Naturally, this race had drawn quite a… Read More Coastal High 50
I opened my eyes and found myself lying in the middle of the roundabout road a few meters away from the location of my recent memory: a car colliding with my bike. I couldn’t feel anything yet, but I instinctively started to check for movement in my limbs and work my way down the spinal… Read More Europe 2015
“Andorra!”… “Australia!” … “Austria!” … As the race official called out our country names we took our designated place on the starting line in single file behind our team’s fastest runner. However, the narrow streets of the picturesque Italian town of Forno are simply not wide enough to provide all 40 countries with a spot… Read More World Mountain Running Championships 2014
After spending many hours over the previous week in the gift shop that adorns the summit of Pikes Peak (in an attempt to best acclimatise to the thin air), the day of the World Long Distance Mountain Running championships had finally arrived. The race was held in conjunction with the Pikes Peak Ascent, which rises… Read More Pikes Peak Ascent 2014
As it has done so since 1979, the fourth Sunday of July was host to the Wimmers King of the Mountain festival in the small town of Pomona in the Noosa Hinterlands. There are so many unique aspects to this amazing event that make it so special to me (despite the fact this was only… Read More Bendigo Bank International Mountain Challenge 2014
“This course isn’t a race, it’s an adventure!” I exclaimed to Caine Warburton and Marcus Warner as we sat at 2500m above sea level along the route to Col de la Terasse, looking at the valley below as the clouds were moving in above us. I had arrived in Chamonix a week prior to the… Read More 80km du Mont Blanc – Skyrunning World Championships 2014
Saturday 7th June: W/U exercises + 6 hours on Mt Warning + W/D exercises This was my first long run since having minor surgery on my left knee the previous Saturday (just cleaning out dirt from a particularly bad fall!). I headed out to Mt Warning with the intention of running for 5 hours, but… Read More Training diary: 7th to 13th June
It’s 8.30pm the night before The North Face 100 Australia 2014, and I’m laying out my race kit for the next morning. But something is missing. “Where are my shorts?” I desperately start turning the hotel room that I was sharing with my parents (my dad would also be running the 100k while my mother… Read More The North Face 100 Australia
Four years ago, I had stood at the same spot, about to endure my first mountain running event at Mt Tennent, just a short drive from the nation’s capital. There was no way I could have known at the time, the effect that race would have on my life. A second place in the under… Read More Australian Mountain Running Championships
Perpetual Motion 