A Recipe For The ‘Edge’ Written on September 3, 2010, by annaf.
7 days in 35°C heat – Boulder 5 days at high altitude beer hunting – Aspen Saturday 7am – Pikes Peak Ascent. Bronze medal 2.42hours. 2000m to 4300m altitude climb. Saturday 5pm – Drive to Buena Vista (Start of TransRockies Run) Sunday 9am – Start of TR3 (TransRockies 3 day solo) 35km undulating Monday – [...]
Pikes Peak Ascent Written on September 3, 2010, by annaf.
Pikes Peak – World Long Course Mountain Running Championships: With some Boulder heat acclimatisation and some Aspen 4000m+ altitude mountain runs, Rickey Gates and I jumped in ‘Orange’ (his VW van) and headed for Colorado Springs. I was not as prepared as usual – by running on the course, and was therefore fairly nervous. 21km [...]
TransRockies Run (TR3) Written on September 3, 2010, by annaf.
Day 1: Buena Vista – Railroad Bridge (33.1km, 923m+/824m-) Luckily for me the race started at 9am so I had a bit of time to get organised after arriving late the night before from the Pikes Peak Ascent race. The sorest part of me was my ribs – from breathing hard at such a high [...]
USA USA USA Written on September 3, 2010, by annaf.
My USA impression… Toilet doors that don’t go to the floor, Tornado shelters and double decker cheese melters, Boulders’ tans and big GMC motor vans, Aspen trees and honey bees, bear poop and chipmunks doing loops, Brewed coffee with 100’s of different flavoured toffee, Bronze at Pikes, a 2.42hour mammoth hike, Buena Vista to Beaver [...]
the last 3 weeks of racing Written on August 12, 2010, by annaf.
With a snow fall on the Karwendal Mountains – on the boarder of Austria and Germany the race I had planned to do was changed to a lesser climb and distance so I went with the trusty race – Schlickeralm. I knew Antonella Confortala would be there and I felt I could do with some one like her giving me [...]
Yogurt Vipiteno – Sterzing Joghurt Written on July 15, 2010, by annaf.
In the Sudtirol – I am in my element. Mountains (steep ones), Gelati, Cake and of course yoghurt. It is a place where in 1945 after the war the boarders moved between Italy and Austria creating a space called Sudtirol where the people proudly kept their dialect and ‘nationality’. The hill sides are dotted with [...]
New Zealand Mountain Running Championships – Mt Campbell – Motueka Written on April 19, 2010, by annaf.
It was perfect racing conditions – slightly over cast, a cool wind, about 10º, and a steep forest trail to climb. The small woman’s and juniors boys field had 7.4km to tackle while the small but stacked of talent men’s field had 14km. I set off up the long consistently steep climb with Italian Antonella [...]
3 Hill Sessions Written on April 16, 2010, by annaf.
So far this year I have been taking my training build up nice and slowly, with long mountain walks and road bike rides. My (f)ankle is still troubling me a little bit after really damaging it in the Everest Marathon so I have not been able to run for as long or as much as [...]
2010 here we come! Written on February 18, 2010, by annaf.
After 2 months in the Himalayas with just two snowfalls above 5000m we were treated to a wintry UK on our return. Snowman making in London at 3am was of course the normal thing to do and arriving back in Wrexham we went in search of our van which was buried under snow. A quick [...]
Kathmandu… Written on October 31, 2009, by annaf.
…we made it! Â after a long and sleepless journey we finally made it…fell alseep through all the kaos outside and woke to a sunny, smoggy, smelly kathmandu day. we had a day of wandering and wandering and looking in lovely shops and drinking not so nice coffee. Â today we got up at 6am [...]