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VOLUME 5 ED20 // AUTUMN 2016 // AU/NZ/ASIA
HIMALAYAN REDUX – A RETURN TO THE FRONT LINE //
FRENCHMANS FORAY – THE MAGIC OF MARBELEK //
FAMILY MATTERS – JOURNEY ON THE HEYSEN //
PLANT POWERED RUNNING // RUNNING SHANGRI LA //
NATURAL BORN HERO - CHRISTOPHER MCDOUGALL //
FASTEST ’TASH IN TASSIE – FELIX WEBER // RETURN
TO FORM – TRAIL TECHNIQUE // SPUTNIK’S SPRAY
PLUS REVIEWS, GUIDES, GEAR & PORN
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gher Mileage
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Y O U ’ R E T R A I N I N G F O R M O R E T H A N A G A M E . P R E PA R E F O R Y O U R N E X T A D V E N T U R E
W I T H A C T I V I T Y- S P E C I F I C W O R K O U T S A N D T R A I N I N G G E A R B U I LT T O D E L I V E R B I G G E R
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Editorial
Australia Editor: Chris Ord
Associate Editors: Tegyn Angel, Ross
Taylor, Simon Madden, Pat Kinsella
New Zealand Editor: Amanda Broughton
Minimalist/Barefoot Editor: Garry Dagg
Art Director: Jordan Cole
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Contributing Writers
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Angel, Majell Backhausen, Tania Carson,
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Photography
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COVER PHOTO: ‘King of Tassie Trails’
Felix Weber storms uphill on Freycinet
Peninsula’s 30km loop trail.
IMAGE: Chris Ord
THIS SHOT: Adventure runner Beau Miles
hits the highline on Mount Buller’s
Summit Loop run, part of the Run Buller
trail routes.
IMAGE: Lyndon Marceau.
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Trail running and other activities described in this magazine can carry significant risk of injury or
death. Especially if you are unfit. Undertake any trail running or other outdoors activity only with proper instruction,
supervision, equipment and training. The publisher and its servants and agents have taken all reasonable care to ensure
the accuracy of the information contained in this publication and the expertise of its writers. Any reader attempting
any of the activities described in this publication does so at their own risk. Neither the publisher nor any of its
servants or agents will be held liable for any loss or injury or damage resulting from any attempt to perform any of the
activities described in this publication, nor be responsible for any person/s becoming lost when following any of the
guides or maps contained herewith. All descriptive and visual directions are a general guide only and not to be used as a
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CONTENTS
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VOLUME 5, EDITION 20, AUTUMN 2016
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REVIEWS
14.
Now’s A Good Time To Buy
all the good gear
Need for Speed, Rock Biter &
Cascade of Dreams
TRAIL GUIDES
124.
Mt Buller,
Victoria
126.
Pomona,
Queensland
128.
Freycinet,
Tasmania
106.
Shoe reviews
50
TRAIL MIX
Australia – Chris Ord
New Zealand – Amanda Broughton
Australia – Tegyn Angel
FEATURES
34.
A Return to Form
– how critical is technique?
8.
Editors’ Columns
32.
22.
Sputnik’s Spray
Fame
Event Previews
Trail Porn
From Down Under
It’s dirty
112.
38.
Fastest ’Tash in Tassie
– the new King of Trails Felix Weber
50.
Frenchmans Foray
– a run into Frenchmans Cap, Tasmania
62.
Family Matters
– finding reason in a run along the Heysen
70.
Himalyan Redux
– back to the Indian frontline
78.
Running Shangri La
– a running adventure in Bhutan
94.
Natural Born Hero
– Born to Run’s Christopher McDougall
100.
Green Machines
– a look at plant powered running
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EDSWORD
IMAGE: Anouk Ord
CHRIS ORD, AU
For the first third of the run, I felt fine.
Dancing on my feet like a dandy, in fact.
Then the distance started to bite.
THEORY OF
RELATIVITY
THERE’S A SEQUENCE IN THE DESCENT
INTO RUN DELIRIUM. THE LEGS START
TO FEEL HEAVY. THE ENERGY SAPS,
LEAKING FROM THE BODY LIKE IT HAS
BEEN SKEWERED IN FIFTY PLACES BY
A RAGING BULL – ENOUGH SO YOU
CAN’T PLUG THE LEAK. I WANT TO LAY
DOWN BESIDE THE TRAIL AND GO TO
SLEEP. THEY TELL ME THAT IS YOUR
ENERGY SYSTEMS TRANSFERRING
FROM GLUCOSE (RESERVES NOW
GONE) TO FAT BURNING. I JUST KNOW
EVERYTHING IS TELLING ME THE GRASS
TREE LOOKS A COMFY PLACE TO CURL
UP. BUT SO EARLY IN THE RUN?
Mentally it is over. But I’m a long way from
home. So it’s not. Plod. Plod. Should I walk?
Yes. No. Get to that post. Then walk. No, next
post. A hill, great, I can walk without shame.
From here it is a zombie run. Not the ‘fun’
type where horror film and makeup buffs
congregate to trot out five kay dead-leg style
in homage to their favourite living dead flick.
This is just straight day of the living dead
running, no Shaun references or makeup
required.
Halfway and there’s an inkling I might
make it, but the stomach is turning over, flip
flopping on a trampoline of indecision that
has me simultaneously ravenous and on the
verge of throwing up.
This run is going to be the end of me.
Of course, ultra runners may recognise this
narrative well. The legs getting tired at 30km,
the shift in energy systems at 40 or so… But
the run I’m whingeing about was no ultra. It
was, to be precise, a mere 6.4km run. Nay, an
epic 6.4km. Epic in particular moments, at
least. It may as well have been an ultra, so
my mind chatter told me at the time.
But that’s the beauty of running –
challenge, brutality, pain, hunger, fear; it’s
all relative to the solitary moment and the
individual feeling it. And all just as valid
regardless of time, distance, ascent or some
other self-validating number used to beat
a chest with.
Someone’s very first 2km run – perhaps
the beginning of a life-changing journey from
couch to metaphorical Kosciuszko peak – can
be as nightmarish as the worst trainwreck
written in the history book of the 240km
Coast to Kosci itself.
Which brings me to my point. Every
run is worthy. Every run can hurt. Every
run can be euphoric. Every run can also
be a trainwreck with mental and physical
ramifications as serious as the runner
judges it to be. It’s all relative.
Ultra runner Rich Bowles loves to say
“you didn’t ‘just’ run (insert whatever
kilometre distance you like). You ran (insert
kilometre distance). Be proud. Any run no
matter the distance is an achievement.”
I agree – drop the magnanimous, self-
denigrating ‘just’ as though whatever you ran
doesn’t really count when compared to…to
what? Stop the comparisons.
Why is your run any lesser to anyone’s, the
Kilians of the world included?
Because it’s not far or tough enough?
Compared to who? To what? Because it didn’t
hurt as much as someone else claims to have
hurt? Judged by whom?
It seems we are in a phase where the ultra
is the new marathon – the thing to be held in
reverence, to be revered as an experience that
allows you into an elite ‘club’ of sorts. It seems
the marathon, which used to be held in the
same stead, is something to be whipped out
between breakfast and lunch, a mere training
run. It is no longer to be boasted about, no
longer backyard barbeque fodder, for it no
longer (seemingly) holds the gravitas it once
did in the New Audacious Age of 100km,
milers and beyond.
Lest we forget we remain a niche sport.
By the numbers, there are more people in our
local communities who are yet to run 21km,
let alone a full marathon, than there are those
who have. That puts those who have run an
ultra in a smaller minority again (note: this
minority does not equate to superiority). Let
us not lose respect for those who tread the
trail at lesser distances. Lesser brutalities.
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Lesser inclines. It’s all very well to push
the limits of mileage and pain when your
limits have already been stretched into the
ultra zone. But don’t sneer down at those
entering their own hurt lockers at a Park Run.
They are no lesser runner. They are no less
brave (for who knows their demons, their
struggles and what a 5km run around a park
could represent in their context – it may be
the equivalent of your Northburn or Buffalo
Grand Slam, hell it may be their own personal
Barkley Marathons).
Toughness is not measured in sheer
distance, elevation or peaks bagged in one
run. Respect should be afforded for the mere
effort of lacing up and stepping into the
environment, no matter where, how far,
how long.
No doubt that running an ultra is a massive
achievement worthy of the cherishing and
of the plaudits. And like any experience of
life, once lived you will find you have secret
handshake conversations with others who
have lived through the pain. You may even
succumb to the fallacy that those who have
yet to run an ultra ‘will never understand’.
Indeed, I’ve seen it bandied that you’re not
a real runner until you tick the 100 box.
Bollocks to that.
If you take a step out your front door,
manage to get a bounce in your step, and do
a blockie at a pace greater than you would
when collecting the fish and chips on a Friday,
and you do it more than once a week with no
other intention than to travel faster than a
walk somewhere, around something, through
something, to something – then you’re a
runner. You didn’t just run around the block.
You ran around the block. And while you may
not have risked rhabdo or even dehydration,
you ought still feel chuffed to have run at all.
And we, as runners living all sorts of contexts,
should be chuffed for you.
Chris Ord, AU Editor
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