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I hope you find this website useful to keep up to date with all my progress and race results, and to learn more about ultra distance running. I have been an international ultra runner since 1994 and am a member of North York Moors running club.

I am currently Great Britain’s top female 24 hour runner and have been for the last twelve consecutive years. I have represented my country on at least 23 occasions since 1994 at both 100km and 24 hour events and have won several medals at International level as well as many National Championship Titles.

My World Ranking for 2008 remains at overall 11th in the IAU female list including road, track and indoor 24 hour races, however my pb of 219km at the Bislett Stadium was a new Indoor British Record and was the best indoor 24 hour performance in the World for 2008. I have done over 800 races and over 18000 miles of racing.

My past races have included many challenging events such as the Moravian Ultra Marathon (7 marathons in 7 days), the Gore-tex Transalpine Run (a 7 day stage race over high alpine routes from Germany to Austria, Switzerland and finishing in Italy), the Verdon Canyon Challenge, (4 days of extreme heat from the base to the top of the Canyon) and the Flora 1000 Mile Challenge that took 6 weeks to complete at a painstaking pace of 1 mile every hour for 1000 hours (up and down the London Marathon route 38 times, finished by completing the London Marathon of course!).

2006 will remain by best ever year, I set the World Record for running from Land’s End to John O’Groats, some 837 miles in 12 days and 16 hours. It was a mammoth undertaking involving lots of logistical planning and additional crew to help me achieve my goal – my back up team of husband Bill, Alan Young, Ivor Roberts, Andy and Ramona Thevenet-Smith, David Nicholson and Murdo McEwan deserve a special mention for helping to make my dream come true. An epic journey full of stories and determination – all which may soon be revealed as it looks like 2008 will be the year my personal story will be written.

My races now seem to be more extreme, in 2008 I ran the Libyan Challenge 190km, an unsupported desert race and followed this up with the classic Marathon des Sables. For 2009 there are plans afoot to tackle the 6 days event and have another attempt at the "invitation only" Surgeres 48 hour race, run the "Hottest Race on Earth", 135 miles across Death Valley and hopefully take part in the Commonwealth Games Demonstration event 24 hours, of which I am easily ranked number 1 in the Commonwealth at present.

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