Firstly this race is 30km Max Adventure, get your shit together and change it. That said; This year the aim of the Coastal Classic was to finish within cutoff for my friend who is 15 weeks pregnant which sounded like an easy task. I have to say I was honored when she asked me but as the race date loomed I was becoming more and more worried that my pace would effect her run as she is super fit and…
This was my second UTA50 and like last year the race briefing was exciting and the atmosphere electric but the announcement that we were now running the first part of the 100km event was daunting and terrifying. The race directors were predicting huge storms and the NPWS and NSW Police were not allowing the 50km coarse to be run, the positive was we were going to experience Tarros Ladder and the infamous Nellies Glen. Race day I drove to Katoomba and parked…