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Great North Walk 100-miler Part 3: Kneeling Heathens
Octember was really something and I would recommend to anybody that you do this: once a year take something that you love doing, add the challenge of aiming to do it in a way that you never have before...
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Sakura Michi International Nature Run 2014
In April this year, ultrahottie Jess Baker and I travelled to Japan for a three and a half week visit that took us everywhere, from Hiroshima to most of the way up Mt Fuji, to a sumo stable in Tokyo...
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Sakura Michi International Nature Run 2014 pt.2
by Roger Hanney – with thanks as always to my workplace and insanity-enabler Hoka OneOne Australia - Hoka One One is the only running shoe with enough crazy genius for my liking. Having already run for...
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You know you’re running 240km when…
So this is it, a week from today, 50 runners each with a support crew tagging along by car will pound out 240km on foot from the south-eastern shoreline of New South Wales to the top of Australia. We...
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Coast2Kosci 2014 Race Report, by Roger Hanney
Writing race reports after properly long runs easily turns into an exercise in self-indulgence. Let’s face it, there’s a reason the whole world’s eyes turn to watch Usain Bolt run for 9.5 seconds but...
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A Great Weekend in California
I’ve been thinking about getting this blogging thing going again. On the one hand, friends who write well inspire you to get back into the practise. On the other, when they’re doing it so well, it’s...
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Tor Des Géants 2015 – part 1 of 3 by Roger Hanney
Tor Des Géants is a single-stage mountain run easily reduced to numbers – 330km, 24,000m D+, 200 miles, 80,000 feet, 850 starters, 6 life bases, time – but that is not the story of the Tor at all. It...
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Tor Des Géants 2015 – part 2 of 3 by Roger Hanney
…continued from Part 1 of 3… The room emptied in a quick if not fully sober fashion into the side alley and once again we were on the run, or hike. With an acute awareness that this might take another...
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The Ultra Easy 100km and its gleeful crushing of the ignorant: a race report
You’ve done a 200km mountain run in September, you’ve knocked out a 240km road run in December, there’s a 100km mountain run in New Zealand this weekend and it’s almost February already – what could...
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Ultimate Bear Fight: UTMB 2016 Part 1
The bucket list is an overused way to describe things that people really want to do but just aren’t going to get their shit together to do any time soon. So it’s appropriate to say that UTMB was a...
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Ultimate Bear Fight: UTMB 2016 part 2, the UTMBening
Heading out of Courmayeur, the feelings I had were a turbulent mix of elation and despair. On the one hand, I was still in the game. I just had to keep getting to the next checkpoint, the next summit,...
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Coast2Kosci 2016 part 1: Slow beginnings
(taken from pages hosted by Medium – https://medium.com/time-to-fly/coast2kosci-2016-part-1-slow-beginnings-4b2282fb7a87#.xwvlsmohg Putting this here now as I’m finally getting the second bit done…...
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Coast2Kosci 2016 part 2: when you don’t want it bad enough to die trying just...
(Continued from https://runeatsleeprun.com/2017/03/16/coast2kosci-2016-part-1-slow-beginnings/) Heading into the night stage (obviously a stage measured by light that started in different places for...
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Ultra-Trail Andorra and other things I will remember forever. By Roger Hanney
Thank you Andy Hewat, we were battling together even if separated. Thank you Hailey Lauren, without your unwavering get-it-done attitude I think I would have broken. Thank you Dad, more than any other...
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OPERATION GOATKISS, Hardrock 2018 Part 1
By Roger Hanney Part 2 continues here. If you’d like to throw some spare change toward the awesome work done by the Telethon Type 1 Family Centre in Perth, we’ve passed our $2500 fundraising goal but...
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OPERATION GOATKISS, Hardrock 2018 Part 2
Continued from Part 1 (please support the awesome positive health impacts of the Telethon Type 1 Family Centre here. Thanks heaps ) Asking around about how best to prepare for Hardrock some months...
View ArticleCATHAY PACIFIC: World’s Worst Customer Service?
I was on Virgin Atlantic flight VS206 on the weekend from Heathrow to Hong Kong, connecting with CATHAY PACIFIC CX111 from Hong Kong to Sydney. I have had no reply yet from VIRGIN ATLANTIC or CATHAY...
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Fasting Mimicking Diet, type 1 diabetes & endurance running
There’s a catchy title hey? The Fasting Mimicking Diet, or FMD, has been researched and developed by Dr. Valter Longo. It is less of a diet and more of an intervention. By restricting caloric intake...
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Mark Webber Wants To Get You Into His Clothing by Roger Hanney
After a career engaged in “wheel to wheel combat” Mark Webber, the most recognised Australian Formula One driver of the modern era recently founded a new Aussie clothing brand. He’s a chiseled, gutsy,...
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The Ultra Easy 100km and its gleeful crushing of the ignorant: a race report
You’ve done a 200km mountain run in September, you’ve knocked out a 240km road run in December, there’s a 100km mountain run in New Zealand this weekend and it’s almost February already – what could...
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