Everyone has their own unique and individual reasons for getting involved in ultra running, and we could certainly go on for days on end about everyone’s motivations and stories behind how they started, but sometimes there’s a bigger meaning behind it all, and when you tear away the exterior of a sport that appears gruelling, arduous and resolute, it can leave itself wide open to be an avocation that leads a person to a better life.
Queenslander Wayne McMurtrie served in the Australian Defence Force for almost 20 years, giving 17 years to the service as an advanced medical assistant and achieving the rank of Sergeant.
In that time he served two tours in East Timor and two in Afghanistan, and was later discharged in 2011, but not without taking home
