Tag: keep moving forward

• Princess Park Urban Trail Run – 12 hour 2021 Report

  

  Location: Princess Park, Victoria, Australia Distance: 120.6km Date: 04/07/21 Overall Place: 4/12 Full Results No hydration vest? No mandatory snake bandage? Do you even ultra? The Princess Park Urban Trail Run was to be my first 12 hour race. Run around a 2.5km loop in the city of Melbourne with no mountains, rocks to jump…

  Tom Dade

  16 Jul 2021

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• Unbreakable – Inspired by the Barkley Marathons – EST.MMXX 2021 Report

  

  Location: Marysville, Victoria, Australia Time: Unbreakable: DNF Fun Run: 28:20:24 Date: 18-20/06/21 Overall Place: Unbreakable: DNF Fun Run: Equal 1/7 Full Results Unbreakable – Inspired By the Barkley Marathons, the name of the ultramarathon says it all, Unbreakable and Inspired By the Barkley Marathons. If you’re familiar with arguably the hardest ultramarathon in the world,…

  Tom Dade

  7 Jul 2021

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• Down Under 135 – 135mi 2021 Report

  

  Location: Lederderg State Park, Victoria, Australia Time: 53:11:38 Date: 14-16/05/21 Overall Place: 2/35 Full Results Down Under 135, this ultramarathon is like no other, I’m not sure you can even call it an ultramarathon. As the website suggests it’s more like a foot race, much of the course in NOT runnable. Off trail sections has…

  Tom Dade

  1 Jun 2021

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• Alpine Challenge – 100mi 2021 Report

  

  Location: Falls Creek, Victoria, Australia Time: 26:53:01 Date: 17-18/04/21 Overall Place: Equal 8/38 Full Results Considered one of Australia’s hardest 100 milers and a qualifier for the infamous Hardrock 100, The Alpine Challenge created by Running Wild’s race director Paul Ashton has runners accumulating over 7000m/22,965ft of elevation over the 100 miles. The course takes…

  Tom Dade

  26 Apr 2021

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• Warburton Trail Festival – 50km Lumberjack Run 2020 Report

  

  Location: Powelltown, Victoria, Australia Time: 5:02:22 Overall Place: 9/98 Full Results Two weeks post a successful summit attempt on South Americas highest mountain Aconcagua I was hyped to get back to the ultra/trail running scene. The Two Bays 56 km Trail Run back in January was my last outing and at the same time my…

  Tom Dade

  14 Mar 2020

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• Riding Life’s Lows & Highs

  Blog Update #6 December the 11th, 2019. I’m not gonna lie it’s been a difficult and miserable couple weeks for me for multiple reasons, at the start of December I was hit with an all too common bout of depression. I’m used to these though and it’s normal for me. It comes and goes just…

  Tom Dade

  10 Dec 2019

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  depression, financial, fitness, health, high, keep moving forward, life, low, Marathon, mental, mental health, Run, runner, suicide, swim, swimmer