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Vajin on the out and back section past Okataina.

Vajin Armstrong’s Tarawera Race Report

Vajin Armstrong’s Tarawera Ultra Marathon 2014 race report. Otherwise known as Adaptability, Or how to pull success from the Jaws of failure. In Ultra running, one of the key lessons you need to…

Wouter Hamelinck climbing during the 2nd lap. Photo: Northburn Facebook.

Northburn 100- 2014 Recap

Above- post race interview with Northburn 50km winner and course record holder, Sage Canaday. The Northburn 100 took place this weekend in amazing and very ” un-Northburn” like weather. While in the past…

Photo: Sage Canaday on his way to winning the 2013 Tarawera Ultramarathon.
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Fast and steady wins the race: Tarawera Ultramarathon on Saturday

This weekend the Ultra Trail World Tour comes to New Zealand. Below is the latest press release for the Tarawera Ultra. “I’ll try to defend my title — but a lot of good…

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Tarawera Ultra 2013

This weekend is brewing as the biggest in New Zealand Ultra Running. Never before has so much off shore talent gathered in New Zealand and with out a doubt the ultra running community and fan’s…

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Tarawera Ultra 2013- it keeps getting better

A few weeks ago Matt, AKA “The mouth of the south” wrote an excellent article on the 2013 Tarawera Ultra and the potential the 100km field has this year. Without a doubt both the men’s and women’s start lists and the…

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2013 Tarawera Ultra

PG13, contains gratuitous use of bad language. No athletes were hurt much in the telling of this story. Anon – “Are you running it this year?” Me – “No, I fucking hate 100k…

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