AN AUDIENCE WITH THE Queen
“I knew it was a lot of stairs but ‘a lot of stairs’ didn’t mean anything to me,” says Meghan Laws of the Hong Kong 100.
“If they’d said, it’s like 60 per cent-70 per cent stairs, that might have concerned me.”
It might be less than that, she allows. “But it really felt like it was almost all stairs.”
We’re chatting in the Rotorua Events Centre, ahead of February’s Tarawera Ultramarathon. Last-minute preparations and briefings unfold around us as Laws recalls her lead-up race - one she’d rather forget.
“I was basically gearing my training towards Tarawera,” she says. “And then I got an invitation to go to Hong Kong 100, which was three weeks before it. I hummed and hawed for about a day, but thought, it’s an honour, and at some point those offers are going to stop coming in.”
The race started okay, says Laws. “The first half I was actually running pretty strong, but then I got kinda whupped and my
