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AU Editorial> Chris Ord

TrailRunMag — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:25:51 +0000

“I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.” ― Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat. “That was a fun run.” But what’s the meaning of ‘fun’? Aside from a cat in a hat, other potentially dubious online references tell us that: “Fun is the enjoyment of pleasure, particularly in leisure activities. Fun is an experience – short-term, often unexpected, informal, not cerebral and generally purposeless....

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Young Guns for Big Red Run

Lucy Bartholomew — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:09:33 +0000

Lucy Bartholomew has run under the clouds of controversy before: at the age of sixteen, she undertook the challenge to complete the 100km Surf Coast Century. That was with her Dad running beside her. Now she’s off to run a 250km monster in the Big Red Run, Australia’s newest multiday stage race looping out across the desert from Birdsville and back. She’ll have to run a marathon a day before taking on an 80km leg. Stay tuned to her reports...

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Trail Run Mag’s History of Trail and Mountain Running

TrailRunMag — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:18:45 +0000

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First Forrest trail foray this weekend

TrailRunMag — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 15:24:37 +0000

The first ever trail half marathon to be run in the Otway Ranges township of Forrest – a place most often spoken about in mountain biking circles – seems to have hit the sweet spot with more than 400 entries taken for the 21km and the 10km runs on roster. Found in amongst the entrant listings are pointy end trailites, Dave Eadie and Nikki Wynd, representing Team Hoka One One. Set to take place this Sunday, 9th June, the Run...

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Saucony Kinvara TR

TrailRunMag — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 03:09:23 +0000

Low riders Kinvara is a village in Ireland. The name means “head of the sea”. Which is of absolutely no relevance whatsoever to Saucony’s Kinvara TR trail running shoe. Fitting then, that there’s not much of a connection between the trail version of the Kinvara and the popular road going model, either. Rather than simply update the road going Kinvara with a rockplate toe protection and better grip – which may have been a winning upgrade in itself – Saucony...

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That mountain glow: the worm has turned

TrailRunMag — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:41:44 +0000

In 1907 the police at Newnes arrested a local who was running naked through the bush shouting he was Jesus Christ come to deliver justice to the bustling little mining community in the wild Wolgan Valley, in New South Wales, Australia. Never heard of Newnes and its nudie run? Apart from the old pub, which still operates as a kiosk serving campers and bushwalkers on weekends, old Newnes is now a collection of haunting industrial ruins abandoned to nature. In...

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Record torn up at The North Face 100

TrailRunMag — Mon, 20 May 2013 08:15:25 +0000

It was a huge weekend of trail running achievement up in the Blue Mountains on the weekend, with records and PB’s smashed all over the Blue Mountains at The North Face 100, Australia’s biggest trail event outing. There were a few good runs had by the Trail Run Mag crew, too [Roving Ed Mal Law snagging a silver buckle in the TNF100, co-publisher Adrian Bortignon registering a handy time in the long one too; our AU editor cracking his first...

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New editors join Trail Run Mag

TrailRunMag — Fri, 17 May 2013 04:24:59 +0000

As The North Face 100 crowds gather atop the Blue Mountains under blue skies, tension mounts as everyone plays the schoolyard “I’m just out for a social run” game, knowing full well everyone will leave it all out on the trail come tomorrow’s TNF100 and 50km ‘fun run’, as it’s been affectionately dubbed. But as Richard Bowles - he of the Te Araroa, BNT and of late Israel National Trail triumphs – says: “We should never use the word ‘just’...

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Run Forrest Half Mara: course preview

TrailRunMag — Mon, 13 May 2013 01:18:15 +0000

FAST, FLOWY, FERNY & FUN…that’s the official verdict for the upcoming Forrest Half Marathon Trail Run happening in the Otway Ranges in Victoria on 9 June, 2013. ENTRIES ARE NOW OPEN. Trail Run Mag along with readers and trail guide writers Olivier Caire and Mike Honeyman decided that a race new to the calendar deserved a thorough going over, just to ensure those signing up would get their money’s worth. And you will, if you like 100% singletrack that rolls...

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Run Israel back on track

TrailRunMag — Wed, 08 May 2013 06:01:58 +0000

It was always a big ask – to run more than two marathons a day, day in and day out, in arid conditions, for 12 days straight. Prior to leaving Australia, Rich had sat with Trail Run Mag out on trail and while the words coming from his mouth were the usual confident, give-it-a-crack vernacular of the Rich we know and love, the look in his eyes was somewhat different. There was caution there, a glint of doubt. Even Rich,...

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