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OCC
On Thursday, my alarm went off at 4.20am, and I knew what I had to do. Go and run my first ultramarathon. 53km, 3300M positive ascent.Soon after arriving in Switzerland from France at just before 7am,...
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Salomon Ennerdale 25km Trail Race
Well, the weather wasn't so great on the way up to the Salomon Ennerdale 25km Trail Race, but I told myself - hey, it's good practice right? For bigger races, where the weather is unpredictable - and...
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Dig Deep 2015
So, my summer adventure. Training underway, getting into the groove of it - excited and psyched for this project and the adventure. This August I shall be taking part in Eight Point Two's Dig Deep...
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Race Report: Tour du Giffre
Last Friday, I caught a plane to Geneva, and headed to the mountains. Time to trail race. Here is my race report:Tour du Giffre. I had been looking forward to this weekend for so long. After months of...
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Dig Deep 30 mile Race Report
It was a glorious day! After horrendous weather conditions the evening before, it was pleasing to see sunny breezy weather early yesterday morning for the start of the Dig Deep 'Intro' Ultra. A rather...
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Tour du Môle
A week today I raced the Tour du Môle in Martigny, in the French Alps. I was intrigued by this race; I signed up not that long prior due to changing my plans a little bit, and I found the concept of...
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Mont Blanc Cross 23km
What a race! Short, intense, humid. Here's the breakdown.Leading up to this race, nerves kicked in due to the potential size of the race (inscriptions open up to max 1500 runners) and the weather. I...
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Race Report Trail Aiguilles Rouges (TAR) 2017
On September 24th, I raced the Trail Aiguilles Rouges (TAR). A 50km, near to 4000m ascent mountain race around the panoramic Aiguilles Rouges nature reserve surrounding Chamonix. This event has been...
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70km Run Challenge With My Friends
One day, I was sitting with my colleague and friend Daz Tait, talking about the fact I had a big birthday coming up and also that running had not gone to plan this year. We were also talking about...
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Race Report: SwissAlps100
While my brain is still buzzing, and perhaps to try to help me to try make sense of it, I thought I would break down the past 36 or so hours. It does not feel real, and in some respects, feels so vivid...
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Lessons I've learnt: the Eiger Ultra & Life in Switzerland
It is fairly difficult to know where to start with this post. How do I sum up the Eiger Ultra? How do I summarise five years of living in Switzerland? I have decided, rather abstractly, to amalgamate...
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