January 2011
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I'm trying to suss out Goal #4 for Feets of...
I’d like to get back to the intrinsic motivations I enjoyed doing #1 - the Hillary Trail - as opposed to the race-based challenges #2 and #3. There was something in #1 about wanting to run as self-expression which I never really explored; I’d like to pick up that thread. Hmmm, there are some cool races coming up though:
Sprint the Bay- a 3 day Sprint Orienteering competition in...
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More Hillary Trail runners
Turns out Dan Roberts and a few others also ran the full Hillary Trail with Ties and HRBR. Dan was in the opening ceremony running group, this time last year. He also ran the trail in the middle of winter with a group involved with the 7in7 Challenge. He might have the record for most completed Hillary Trail runs?? I heard from Dan today - here’s an abridged version of his email:...
'You're crazy.' That's what an elite runner told... →
Interesting to hear from someone who hasn’t had a good experience in Five Fingers… I imagine that will continue as long as people think its the shoes can save them.
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Ties ran the Hillary Trail today!
So I got a text this evening from my buddy Ties telling me he’d just run the Hillary Trail today. As in, the full 70km monster:
The Huia Road Bush Runners were tackling the iconic trail as a relay, providing support stops at the beaches with their van (endearingly called “The Clubhouse”). So, Ties wakes up this morning and decides he feels OK so he might as well join them to...