Trail Run

I’ve had an epiphany – I think that the ritual and intimacy of trail running has been diluted by social media, which on one hand is rich as I am an avid user of social media in my personal life and, as a professional, I rely on social media to public

Where: 100km west of Alice Springs. What: This makes up section eight of the Larapinta Trail. The whole trail covers 223 kilometres, with the eastern end at Alice Springs and the western end at Mt Sonder, one of the Northern Territory’s highest moun

People often ask me why I do what I do, and how I measure my success, both as an individual and as head of Total Sport. My standard answer is always the same: “What’s your measure of success?” For me there’s a lot more to success than banking a tonne

March is my birthday month. I share my actual birthday with Brendan Canty, the drummer from Fugazi. For that reason alone it’s a truly auspicious date. It’s also approximately a week before, way back when, Mr G.J. Caesar esq. was accosted by a sooths

Crazy was a phrase often heard as New Zealand’s first ultra-staged run, the Back Country Cuisine Alps 2 Ocean Ultra, which travelled 322 kilometres from Mt Cook in the Southern Alps to the coast at Oamaru in North Otago. Crazy said some of the runner

Human beings have been around for about 200,000 years and apart from the last 5–10,000 years or so we have been nomadic, going without food for long periods and living in the elements. Our biology is pretty much identical to that of our ancestors, so

Fascia falls into the broader category of connective tissue that has two major protein compounds: collagen and elastin. Collagen is the cement that holds everything together, while elastin is the stretch-and-spring-back part of ligaments and skin. Bo

Occupation: Television journalist, news anchor, author When did you start running? In 2012 a met blind athlete, Mike Lloyd, who was training for the New York marathon that year and needed a guide. I started running with him, having never really ru