#wuu2k

“To finish in daylight” - it seems like a very simple and easy goal. After all, I only had to run slightly faster than last year to make it happen. But if I’ve learned one thing from the ultra marathons

The WUUI2K, my first ultra marathon. My first taste what it’s like to really push yourself far beyond anything you thought was possible. I had been tested before in many ways, but nothing like the gruelling

Here's a video of my race over the weekend. While things didn't go to plan (at all) I'm still happy with the result. Now all I have to do is rest and heal for a bit and then start training for the next

It’s Monday and I’m slightly more competent than I was yesterday, so I thought it would be about time to write a quick results post about my race on Saturday. Going into the race I had some big concerns

Yesterday I decided it was time to test my fitness and to try and gauge how I might perform for the upcoming WUU2K ultra marathon. image source The key section for the course, I think, is the first half.

Now that’s something to make a race director smile. The WUU2K(Wellington Urban Ultra) sold out today and there is still two and a half months to go until the race. That’s awesome. It just goes to show

I sent most of yesterday and today working. I know, it’s the weekend, but I am super busy right now with looming deadlines… But this evening when I finally got some free time to check up on the state of

The fifth video is now uploaded, one to go. This one features the infamous Tip Track and the race to get to the last checkpoint at Tawatawa Reserve before the cut-off time. I have fond memories of this

The fourth section of the WUU2K looks to be the easiest, on paper. But even though it is downhill for a lot of the way, it is still really hard on your legs. I got up onto the top of the ridge, looking

We’re on a roll now! This section was probably the easiest to run in the end, and I actually quite enjoyed it. Of course, there was a slight complicating factor that I had just run the second section (the

It’s slow progress getting the videos uploaded, almost as slow as my running. But one by one the videos are going up on YouTube. This section takes you through the mountain bike park, and it is where the

If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been for the last few weeks, I can now start to reveal the project I’ve been working on. It’s not so much that it was a secret, but more that I didn’t have anything

It’s the final week before my first attempt at running an ultra-marathon – the WUU2k (Wellington Urban Ultra). image source My last training session was last Tuesday at the gym, where I spent an hour running