UTMB Julian Alps

Medium • 14th September 2023

Bold, beautiful and brutal: My Journey Into the World of Skyrunning and Beyond

For years, I never considered myself a runner. Until that changed.

UTMB Andorra

Medium • 30th July 2022

Chasing 100k: Race Day

I’m standing here scared witless and surrounded by a sea of strangers. The centre of Ordino in the mighty Pyrenees of Andorra to be exact.

Medium • 6th June 2022

Chasing 100k: April and May

Part 4: One could easily argue why anyone in one’s right mind would want to aim for a goal such as 100 kilometers of running.

Medium • 26th April 2022

Chasing 100k: March

Part 3. A long run needs discipline and strategy to run at the right pace — not too fast and not too slow. Five years ago, I had neither.

Medium • 27th February 2022

Chasing 100k: February

Part 2. No no no. Not me. I could never train for 100k.
Those words, my words, rang in my ears as I looked down at my Garmin watch.

Medium • 27th February 2022

Chasing 100k: Once a Marathon Runner, Always a Marathon Runner?

Part 1. I’ve spent so much of my life convinced that not moving forward automatically meant sliding back. I thought running was an easy way to measure that.