My running journey has been a very rocky road – many, many injuries and even more lessons learnt. The goal for my first Ultra was UTA 50 for 2019 – after several cancelled entries in the last few years. When I heard about The Guzzler, I knew I could spend 9 months training on the course and spend a fraction of the cost, not to mention the local community support behind it, and the Glass Half Full quickly replaced UTA for next year and now I’m super excited (and terrified!).

Technically just over 3 years, but I haven’t actually run for at least half of that. 

Probably not a trail running moment, but the fact that I’m not giving up on my crazy, sometimes completely unrealistic goals (and I just keep making more).

I think going up Kokoda at the end of 50k, probably in the dark, is the thing I’m most worried about (thanks for that guys!), and I have a feeling I’ll be crawling, crying and silently swearing the whole way up! I’m pretty resilient, so I hope that when it gets tough, just taking a minute to take in my surroundings will hopefully help, maybe some dancing on the trails, along with some old school Hamish and Andy through my phone speakers, as well as chocolate when it gets really bad. Famous last words right…

I’ll most likely be hiking the majority of it, and I want to finish before I get kicked off the course, and even then I’ll still keep going, even if it’s not official! I don’t care if I’m the last person to cross the finish line with 1 second to spare and I crawl across it, I just want to finish it, and survive it! 

My crew I have now, Sara and Kate. They are supportive and they are definitely not going to let me quit even when I tell them I want to!