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1 Apr 2024

🏃🏃‍♀️2024, So Far So Good

"To continue would result in a devastating eruption🌋 and a pyroclastic flow that could destroy a nation ☢️"

31 Mar 2024

Kaimanawa Kaweka Traverse – 124km and 8100m vert

By Liz Palmer

24 Mar 2024

🏃🏃‍♀️Northburn, Riverhead ReLaps & Loop The Lake Results

“Every trail runner should experience a Terry Davis race briefing once in their life. It is a lyrical journey containing a vast selection of adjectives relating to pain, suffering and despair"

24 Mar 2024

Tanks on E but the soul is full!

The Soul Runner @ Riverhead ReLaps

17 Mar 2024

🏃🏃‍♀️Free Peeks In Dunedin

"Luckily I still had just enough legs!"

10 Mar 2024

🏃🏃‍♀️Tararua Mountain Race Rises From The Ashes

"But this race was a powerful specimen!"

3 Mar 2024

🏃🏃‍♀️Motatapu Results & 2 Jaffa's go for a long stroll

"...you’ll be wanting a change of undies!”

25 Feb 2024

🏃🏃‍♀️A French Yorkshire Dude See's an Old Ghost & Runs ...

“Probably my best win to date. It means a lot to get your name on the winners trophy of an event like Old Ghost!!”

18 Feb 2024

Tarawera & Shotover Moonlight Results

"The out and back added extra vert in the race and being in the back half of the course was pretty soul destroying for some.”

11 Feb 2024

🏃🏃‍♀️Glenn Sutton, Like a Pig in ...

"The chill from a heavy late summer dew cooled us for the first mile of rough suddling"

4 Feb 2024

🏃🏃‍♀️Tussock Traverse Result, Worst Run Ever Is Back

“My phone battery goes completely dead following the call and I am fully relying on a helicopter arriving.”

28 Jan 2024

🏃🏃‍♀️Jumbo Holdsworth Results, Mission Corner & More

“The plan wasn’t to start at 1:30 am after a full day of work on Friday, a 4.5-hour drive from Wellington...”

22 Jan 2024

🏃🏃‍♀️The Goat Results, Revenant Recap

“Honestly the most difficult race I’ve ever done and probably the most rewarding.”

22 Jan 2024

The Tararua Mountain Race (Free Preview)

"I will never forget my second time, hamstrings cramping so badly I had to"

22 Jan 2024

Dr. Tripp, The Man, The Myth, The Legend

"I limited myself to 4 Cookie Times in a 10 hour shift and only 6 for a 15 hour shift"

14 Jan 2024

🏃🏃‍♀️Aotearoa Ultramarathon Runners Spontaneously Combust

"He just stood there with his chopper out, chatting to me about the run I was doing"

14 Jan 2024

Neil Smith's Race @ Aotearoa 101KM

7 Jan 2024

🏃🏃‍♀️2024, Let's Do This

“I've had this idea to run the length of NZ for some time. It seemed insane (and still does at times), but the more I have battled away, the more the mountain seem worst run ever quote"

17 Dec 2023

🏃🏃‍♀️Trail Running NZ 2023, The Year That Was

"Yeah nah, it was a run of 2 halves. Started steady and gave it the jandel at the end. Trail running was the winner on the day"

10 Dec 2023

🏃🏃‍♀️The Wild(ish),Crush The Cargill & The Valley Ultra

"Are you local, have you run these trails before... your pace is a little hot?!"

3 Dec 2023

Kepler Challenge: Jones & Morgan too strong

“Yea, some good close racing going on. A bit like how my first Kepler played out. But deeper competition and faster times."

26 Nov 2023

🏃🏃‍♀️Russian Hacker Robs Haunschmidt of WAI2K 25K title

“...my foot landed wrong, and my foot just collapsed"

19 Nov 2023

Munters gonna munt, Hillbillys gonna' billy?

“If I was to tell my younger self that I would grow up to become a munter and get to run all these munter races, I think he’d be proud.”

12 Nov 2023

🏃🏃‍♀️The intel machine is smoking...

“Still shocked at how the legs kept on giving, right to the end..."