WELCOME to sharongayter.com !

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

I am currently Great Britain’s top female 24 hour runner and have been for the last thirteen consecutive years. I have represented my country on at least 25 occasions since 1994 at both 100km and 24 hour events and have won several medals at international level as well as many National Championships titles.

My World Ranking for 2009 finished as 4th in the IAU female listing for 24 hours. I achieved a new personal best distance again this year with 226km (140 miles). This won a gold medal at the Commonwealth 24 Hour event and was the best British female performance for many years. I have run over 900 races and over 19,000 miles of racing.

I have run over 300 marathons and over 100 ultra distance races, many of these abroad and many of these are unique or extreme races. I have done things like the Flora 1000 Mile Challenge that took nearly 6 weeks to complete, doing just 1 mile every hour for 1000 hours (up and down the London Marathon route 38 times). I have run from Lands End to John O’Groats, over 800 miles and taking over 17 hours from the world record, I have run high alpine paths in the Transalpine Race from Germany to Austria, Switzerland and finishing in Italy. I have run the Moravian Ultra Marathon, 7 marathons in 7 days. I have run hot races such as Verdon Canyon, Libyan Challenge and the Marathon des Sables. I have run the Badwater Ultramarathon of 135 miles across Death Valley, billed as the hottest race on earth and set the best time by any British athlete, male or female.

have achieved much in my career which had been detailed in my book "The Clock Keeps Ticking" to be published in 2010 (date will be announced soon), with much detail on my world record LEJOG. This was written on request of the many people that support me and follow my progress and would like to know more. I have already had staggering reports from those that have read it (prior to publishing) for their view - inspiring, motivating, funny, sad, personal. Many who have read my reports say it feels like there are there an running it with me, so here is my life story, from a chapter on my life as a child, that may well have driven me to want to inflict pain on myself, to my humble beginnings as a marathon runner, my quest to run further into the unknown, from a bus driver to a university lecturer, from a fun runner to a world record holder and Commonwealth Champion and more. You won't have read anything like this in your life, but then that is why, because it is my life, lived the way I chose to live it.

There are many more races I have yet to experience and several more World Records I would still like to attempt. In 2010 there will be my first trip to Slovenia for the Trans-Slovenia Ultra 220km, the World 24 Hours in France, The High (world highest race) around the Himalayas in India and hopefully another world record attempt by the end of the year. So do keep watching and supporting and do let me know what you think to my book (Sharon@sharongayter.com).

Best wishes for a healthy and successful year.

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