Petite Feet Runaway

Don’t you wish your dad was cool like mine? To be honest, my father is quite popular with the media and it makes me jealous. He’s been in newspapers and on the radio for his running. People love that he’s a local bean counter with three daughters who loves a bit of adventure on the side. However, this is the first time he’s gone international and appeared in an e-zine. Check him out in the latest edition of Ultra Tales – he’s on page 63 with his report on running 50km consecutively for five days. All to celebrate his 50 th of course. Wonder where I get my crazy gene from?    To read Ultra Tales – Edition Three visit www.ultratales.com Don’t pity me too much though because I am also soon to appear in a magazine also. It’s published in New Zealand so I’ll claim that as international since I now use Scottish slang more often than the locals. I’ll keep you posted… Oh and if you are wondering about my 50km time in my recent track race; I did beat dad...

Let's do another lap... Eighteen months ago I didn’t even know 24-hour races existed. A year ago I crewed for Matt Bixley and watched my very first one. Things went downhill after that as I got sucked into their crazy circular world. Training over the last three months had consisted of the following: -           A handful of 15 minute jogs -           Less than a handful of 30 minute jogs -           Completing the Speyside Way -           Learning to swim a mile -           Increasing my stamina on the rowing machine to a whopping 15 minutes It might not be the training schedule that you’d find if you googled ‘training for a 24-hour race’ but I worked with the body I had after a slow WHW recovery. In hindsight the Speyside Way might not ha...

Crewing for Kiwis in Katowice Last September I jumped on Matt Bixley’s crew at the last minute for the Commonwealth 24-hour Championships in Llandudno, Wales. And I loved it. See Matt’s report on my excellent crew skills here .  Matt wasn’t running in the IAU World 24-hour Championships in Katowice, Poland this year but we had the pleasure of supporting two other New Zealand runners; Amy Campbell and Brendon Keenan. Both were running their first 24-hour races and neither we had met before. I suspected the party wouldn’t quite be like Glenmore but I booked my annual leave and was pumped. Last year Matt finished (and I suspect started) with a bruise up his entire shin. We didn’t see it until he took his long socks off. So my theory was that if he could run for 24 hours with that injury I wasn’t accepting a runner stopping for anything less! The other members of the team were Vivian Cheng, Valerie Muskett, Alex McKenna, Wayne Botha and Bryan McCorkindale. We met the t...