February - April 2022

Trail Run

NZ's best running magazine

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COVER: Katharine Clark bounds through the Aussie terrain at the 2021 Feral Pig 50km Ultra IMAGE: Astrid Volzke THIS SHOT: Veronica Palockova takes the incline at Remarkables Mountain Range in New Zealand IMAGE: Sean Beale EDITOR: Kate Dzienis DESIGN:
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Now’s A Good Time To Buy All The Great Gear
REVIEWER: KATE DZIENIS Sports nutrition is a bit of a personal thing. Whether you consider yourself a professional athlete or not, most humans need a little bit of help when it comes to vitamins and minerals – aka micronutrients. Crucial for a variet
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Ultra-trail Australia
ALMOST everyone and anyone who’s hit the trails across the Tasman has heard of Ultra-Trail Australia, and to be fair it’s on a lot of bucket lists. Known to be the biggest trail running event in the southern hemisphere, well known athletes like Matt
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Herdy’s Frontyard Ultra
ARE you keen to go beyond the marathon distance and potentially make your mark by tackling an ultra? Then one of the best ways to do that is by introducing yourself to the backyard ultra, where running from Point A to Point B simply doesn’t exist and
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The Gumby
IF you’re after a race with an eternal loop, and you’re super keen to get a DNF, then the GUMBY will give you what you’re looking for. For a sadistic taste of the backyard ultra, and with a small crowd of eager runners chasing personal bests, this ev
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Riverhead Backyard Relaps Ultra And Relay
NORTH Island’s Riverhead Forest has got it all, and race directors of the Riverhead Backyard ReLaps Ultra and Relay are challenging everyone to see who can outlast their tough last one standing race this April. Well, ‘tough’ is an understatement. The
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Dream Run
While most people outside of Australia think the country’s nothing but red desert and dirt with hardly a watering hole in sight, the west coast is fifty shades of emerald green and a host to overflowing rivers when winter kicks in. Showcasing the ver
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Mt Oxford Odyssey
IF you’re looking to add a trail race to your ‘must do’ list, then the Mt Oxford Odyssey in Canterbury on the South Island of New Zealand is destined for a placing in your Top 10 – and not in pencil, so you can’t rub it out. With four distances to ch
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No Strength? You Won’t Flow Over The Trail
Running on trails tests our entire system. Awareness, agility, joint and muscle range, control through that range, and a stable platform is imperative to tap into a flowing, efficient rhythm over uneven, undulating terrain. Achieving this efficient r
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Q & A THE PINEAPPLE RUNNING CLUB
HOW DID YOUR GROUP BEGIN? We all work together and for several years, runners at our city office would head out for the occasional lunch run along the Brisbane River. At the onset of the pandemic, we had to adapt this running gig given the sudden cha
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THE KIWI WHO Conquered THE DESERT
Night has fallen in the Sahara and, tucked inside her tent, an exhausted runner wonders whether she can keep going. She’s halfway through the multi-day Marathon des Sables, running across the desert in Morocco. It’s her dream and she’s finally living
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Mental Training For Ultrarunning
Running in general is a hard task as it is. Hit the trails or go beyond marathon distance, and we’ve known runners to physically break barriers beyond our comprehension. There are books galore and articles throughout the entire world wide web on how
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Resilience TO COPE WITH PTSD
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 i
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FINDING A PIECE OF Salvation THROUGH ULTRAS
THERE was once a time in my life at age 10 where I wasn’t too sure if I would make it to live to a ripe old age. At 13 I nearly proved myself right. I had been to hell and back more times than Doc Brown went Back To The Future. But for me, there was
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Straight From Finding Salvation Director Louie J Hadfield
“I’ve always been fascinated by the sport and the people who choose to participate in ultra marathons. As a filmmaker, and someone who’s in the process of building their own ultra running career, sharing these stories is something I am truly passiona
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Souring THROUGH THE VALLEY
2021 was going to be my third Ultra NZ Valley Ultra (27 November 2021), and I had built it up in my head all year as the one that we climbed to Petries Ridge and got to experience those breath taking views. This hope was dashed early in the week of t
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TO CREW OR NOT TO CREW Definately Crew
TWO-HUNDRED MILES. That converts to a lengthy and formidable 321.869km that takes more than a year to prepare for. That is usually reserved for seasoned trail runners who can not only operate on no or minimal sleep, but can accept the fact that their
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IT’S NOW A Life of no Regrets
SIXTEEN years ago, Malcolm Winnie’s life changed in an instant. Always drawn to nature and and the great outdoors, forging a career as a professional adventure guide, Malcolm’s job enabled him to travel the world, and he had all the opportunities to
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Running ON RED DIRT
THE GOLDFIELDS PIPELINE MARATHON in Kalgoorlie, WA has always been an event close to my heart, having lived in the town myself for roughly 3.5 years between 2013 and 2017. I was saddened by the cancellation of the 2020 event due to the global COVID-1
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TRAIL HERO ON A MISSION FOR Youth
WITH races across the Tasman postponed or cancelled throughout the past two years, so many runners have spent a majority of those 24 months itching and scratching to get their trail shoes back onto dirt. Thankfully things have started to slowly open
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Cushioning Takes The Cake
FOR ANYONE WANTING A SUPER CUSHY RIDE ALONG THE TRAILS, the VECTIV Enduris by The North Face will be your go-to shoe in amongst your collection of runners piling up in your closet. Personally, my trail shoes were long overdue for replacement, so when
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Melina Mellino
I grew up playing soccer. It was all consuming, and I was on multiple teams rushing from one place to the next competing on a national level. I’m originally from the US, and when you live there and you’re told at a young that you’ve got to go to coll
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UNFINISHED Business
Being vulnerable isn’t easy, but that’s what I’m going to do. Heading out for a single run over the past two years has had its fair share of challenges, I’ll be the first to admit. From the global pandemic to having my second much-anticipated child,

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