It seems like yesterday that Kilian Jornet was blasting down Mt Kinabalu to record a historic win over arch-rival Marco de Gasperi at the 2011 Climbathon. Via Christen Bouffard 
KIMBERLEY Ultramarathon organisers failed to act after they were warned there was a fire risk to competitors. Documents reveal the alarm was raised two hours before competitors in the race were trapped and seriously burned in a WA bushfire. A damning fire investigation report, obtained under Freedom of Information laws, also reveals race officials were aware of the fire at least two days before the 100km endurance event was held, because the blaze had crossed on to the scheduled course and destroyed plastic boundary markers. 
Set against the backdrop of the early 1980s, Cliffy will retrace Young's journey from famously training in gumboots among the cow paddocks to an epic six-day period of the ultra... Via Christen Bouffard 
Keenan, 37, is part of a growing barefoot- running movement based on the idea that the body is precision-engineered to run and that the modern running shoe - with its motion- controlled, super-cushioning stability - actually counteracts centuries of evolution, encouraging runners to thwack the ground with their heels, increasing the impact force on the body and, presumably, making it more susceptible to injury. 
Marathons are just a mere part of his training schedule..... entrée if you like. The main course being The Coast To Kosciuszko (C2K). A whopping 246km! WARRNAMBOOL Athletic Club (WAC) will offer runners a new challenge next year when it hosts the city’s first ultra marathon. WAC president John Keats expected the inaugural 50-kilometre ultra marathon to be popular. 
A PAINSTAKINGLY penned plea has been made by a Kimberley Ultramarathon burns victim from her hospital bed. With hands so severely burned they now resemble claws, Kate Sanderson this week used her disfigured fingers to type the heartwrenching email, calling for a State Government inquiry into the 100km outback footrace in which she narrowly escaped death by wildfire. Drama of Western States 100 ultramarathon caught on film in documentaryKansas City StarSo when Reno, Nev., documentarian JB Benna ambitiously sought to capture the feeling of what it takes to win the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run arguably ... 
Website dedicated exlcusively to Ultramarathon Running and Trail Running with masses of useful content for runners of all levels and distances. 
Yurrebilla Ultra Marathon. I had unfinished business with this race this year. The Yurrebilla Ultra is a grueling 56 km. through the Mount Lofty Ranges in Adelaide following the Yurrebilla Trail. This was the 3rd year that I have ... 
Racing The Planet, Nepal - Grandmother to Attempt 250km Ultramarathon in Six Days! 
On September 23rd and 24th, at the Commonwealth Mountain and Ultra Distance Championships, the United Kingdom’s Lizzy Hawker set a new women’s world 24-hour record on the roads. When all was said and done, she put down 247.076 kilometers. Via Christen Bouffard 
Kimberley ultramarathon organisers ignored advice to check on fires - Organisers of the Kimberley Ultramarathon did not ask emergency services for advice about bushfires in the days before the event. |
A senior police official who headed the investigation into the tragedy at the Kimberley Ultramarathon last year has stated that the race and its organizers should be the subject of a formal inquiry.Runners in the West Australian event got caught in a horrific wildfire that left two participants, Kate Sanderson and Turia Pitt, with horrific burns.The women had been trapped in a bushfire. 
A senior police officer who headed the investigation into last year's ill-fated ultra-marathon in the Kimberley says the event, and its organisers, should be subjected to a formal inquiry. 
THE ABC is set to make a telemovie about Aussie distance runner Cliff Young. Young grabbed world headlines in 1983 when, then a 61-year-old Victorian potato farmer, he won the 1983 Sydney to Melbourne ultra marathon. Fire disaster prompts rethink on safetyThe West AustralianNew risk-management procedures will be introduced for events funded by the State Government after last year's Kimberley Ultramarathon, which ended in disaster when five competitors were... 
AFPAussie ultra-marathon man finishes pole-to-pole runAFPSYDNEY — Australian ultra-marathon man Pat Farmer on Thursday completed an epic run from the North Pole to the South Pole in a feat of endurance he said would take its toll on his body for as... Questions / Réponses avec Kilian Jornet sur l'Endurance Film Festival à la Saintélyon. 
MARATHON runner Kate Sanderson has spoken of being caught in the runaway bushfire that has left her in agony and fighting for life in hospital. The state government has not ruled out providing promotional funding for future Racing the Planet ultramarathons being run in the Kimberley despite its beleaguered record.
In the wake of the Ultra Race of Champions (UROC 100k) a few weeks back, I got to pondering what motivates women, specifically, to enter trail and ultramarathon races. At the UROC 100k, far fewer fast women than men ... 
Questions remain for runners injured in a bushfireABC OnlineBut for eight runners, the Kimberley Ultra Marathon became a nightmare in which they almost lost their lives. 
Ultra-marathon runner Lisa Tamati tells Alan Perrott about pushing her body to the limit and seeing penguins in the desert. 
MICHAEL Hull believes that if the communications system during the disastrous Kimberley Ultramarathon had been working properly he and three other runners would probably not have been burned by a bushfire. Mr Hull, from Tascott on the NSW central Coast, wants to know why the organisers, RacingThePlanet, did not contact all relevant authorities for bushfire information, as they had been told to do. Mr Hull remembers how he and five others tried to escape the blaze by running up an embankment. As the fire started to overrun them, he made the snap decision to turn around and run through the fire front. |
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