On episode 59 of the podcast I have some very special guests, our RMA ‘Miler Mums’, Sophie Geraghty, Sarah Grealy, Emma-Rose Maber and Tina Kirwan! All of these amazing women just competed at the 2023 Tarawera Ultramarathon in the 100mile event, and I wanted to pick their brain about how that actually felt! What does … Read more
“Darlin’, don’t quit your daydream . It’s your life that you’re making. It ain’t big enough if it doesn’t scare the hell out of you. If it makes you nervous, it’s probably worth it . Why save it for sleep when you could be living your daydream?” -Daydream by Lily Meola The backstory: Back in early 2021, … Read more
There are many reasons why people run ultra’s or an event that is longer than a marathon (42.2km), but just like the marathon it requires at a minimum 4 months of specific training on which you should have a solid base to build. You need some resilience and should be injury free if you’re an … Read more
My goal of running 100km has been a long time coming. Ever since I started running ultra’s my ultimate goal was to hit the magical number 100. I don’t know why. It seems so ludicrous to the average human, and yet, to me, it seems relatively achievable. I remember when 16km was hard, then in … Read more
When I look back on the year I have had, I have to think about how thankful I am. Last year saw me struggling after two major ankle injuries. I have more than turned that around this year. I think that the main factor in this success for 2017 has been my sheer will to … Read more
For so long I have had to struggle to keep going. To believe that I am worth something. To stay focused. To FINISH what I started. It all started out when I was a teenager, full of self-doubt, in the grips of a never ending cycle of a horrendous eating disorder that would last the … Read more
This time last year I had just upgraded from what was to be my fourth half marathon at the Sydney Blackmores running festival to my first full marathon in Sydney with only 3 weeks lead in. My then, amazing coach was crazily adapting my program to accomodate my very random and last minute race decisions. … Read more
Australia houses some of the most amazing runners around, not to mention the most amazing mother runners. One such runner is ultra runner Nikki Wynd. Nikki only started running about 5 years ago and found herself not only loving the sport, but very talented at it too. After working extremely hard to smash all of … Read more
At the beginning of this year I was coming off an amazing 2014 running year. I had run numbers half marathons, 3 marathons, a 30k trail race and a 60k ultra. I was being coached by a fantastic coach, and I felt stronger and fitter than ever before. I was looking full ahead at my … Read more
Starts with a Monday evening run with NSRG on 28th July 2014 when I met Cara. Cara was training for the City2Surf marathon on 31 August 2014 and running to raise funds for Cancer. We chatted, ran well together. We met at the same run the next week where I learned more that Cara … Read more
“If your goals don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough!” – anonymous. This quote was the motivation for planning my 2015 run calendar. This was the quote responsible for my motivation to become an Ultramarathon runner and more…I had completed two marathons last year and I had set, trained with and finished my sixteen-week Nike … Read more
This race story starts almost a year ago to the day. My bestie Nhung Wawatai and I were out on a marathon training run on our favourite Perth Hills trail, having just completed our first half marathon 2 weeks prior. We kept seeing these raggered looking people running past with hydration vests and bibs on. … Read more
The journey began 6 months ago, travelling with friends to an event in the ACT we were chatting like school girls about our bucket list of running events, the 3 of us had a more than 1 event in common on our lists, the biggest and craziest for us was The Anzac Day Challenge, 100km … Read more