Shotover Moonlight Post Race Interviews

Saturdays Shotover Moonlight Mountain Marathon delivered! It was hyped up with a class field in both the women’s and men’s race and while there where a few no shows (Braden Currie, Amy Campbell,…

Shotover Moonlight pre race Interviews

Shotover Moonligh Mountain Marathon tomorrow is set to be a cracker! Below are a few short interviews with some pre race favourites. Ruby Muir Richard and Elina Ussher Martin Cox Vajin Armstrong

Avalanche Peak Challenge 2013

The 2013 Avalanche Peak Challenge took place yesterday in Arthur’s Pass National Park, in near perfect conditions.  If anything temps were a touch on the high side and the scree into the upper Crow in…

St James Stampede Ultra

Marty Lukes, arguably New Zealand’s most successful ultra runner (trail and road) gives us a run down on why he thinks the new St James Stampede 50km Ultra is a race worth doing. Located in a wonderful block…

Red Tarns Running, Mt Cook Village

Well since my last blog a month ago the weather has been pretty ‘special’ and I’ve found it extremely difficult to get up high running in the mountains. I went on a little…

Coming At You This Week

Results/News from the weekend Jumbo Holdsworth was won by Rhys Findlay-Robinson in 2hr22, ahead of former NZ mountain running rep Dan Clendonin 2hr32. Piret Klade won the woman’s race in 2hr59, just over 1min off Fleur Pawsey’s 2008…

Northburn: Reinvent Yourself- by Martin Cox

I was a skinny, intense kid with a physique and temperament suited to distance running and very little else. Like all young runners from the South of England, I began by racing road…

Ruby Muir Kepler Challenge 2012 Interview

The 2012 Kepler Challenge, the 25th running of New Zealand’s most prestiges mountain running race was held on Dec 1st in cool, windy condition’s, with occasional showers early turning to heavy rain late…

Vajin Armstrong Kepler Challenge Interview

The 2012 Kepler Challenge, the 25th running of New Zealand’s most prestiges mountain running race was held on Dec 1st in cool, windy condition’s, with occasional showers early turning to heavy rain late in the day. From the gun 2x…

Kepler Challenge – Past Race Videos

A little bit of Kepler Challenge motivation via a few short clips of past events. Remember to check out our pre race interviews and articles from past winners. We have also organised a…

Vajin Armstrong White River Video Interviews

On July 28th kiwi Vajin Armstrong raced the White Rive 50 mile in Washington State, US. We managed to get  a pre and post interviews with Vajin while he was in Washington. The…

Coming at you this week

Coming at you this week- Well yes, we are a little late getting this up this week. Getting back from TNF100 in Australia and recovering from a 100km race, catching up on work and family…

Mal Law’s Everest in a Day

Everest in a Day was conceived as a training run for Mal Law’s even bigger challenge – CoastPathRun – a 1,014 km running odyssey along the length of the UK’s longest trail, the…

2012 ANZ 100k Champs Video

Anna Frost Transvulcania Training

New Zealand’s golden girl of ultra- running and Salomon Running Athlete Anna Frost is currently in the  Canary Islands, Spain, in preparation for the Transvulcania Ultra Marathon. We have a nice little interview with Frosty in the works,…

2012 Loop the Lake- Fleur Lattimore

2012 Loop the Lake- Graeme Taylor

2012 ANZ Mountain Running Champs- SM winner- Phil Costley

2012 ANZ Mountain Running Champs-SW winner Hannah Newbound

Northburn 100 wind

Anna Frost Taranaki Mission