(C) Jeremy Hemming, press conference for Flora 1000 Mile Challenge at the Tower, London (November 2002)
(C) Jeremy Hemming, press conference for Flora 1000 Mile Challenge at the Tower, London (November 2002)



 


WELCOME to sharongayter.com !

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 eleven 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. For 2007 my ranking dropped from 8th to 11th for 24 hours. I have done nearly 800 races and over 17,000 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.

For 2008 my races seem to be going more extreme, for this year it looks like extreme heat, another run around the Libyan Challenge 190km, the classic Marathon des Sables of 7 days across the Sahara desert - just to say I have done it, then a run around in circles in the Surgeres 48 Hour race, a very prestigious race that you have to be invited to and have to be very high in the world rankings to get an invite and all these hot races just have to provide good acclimatisation for the big one of the year – the Worlds Hottest Race across Death Valley, the Badwater 135 miles in July. For the remainder of the year is just the World 24 Hours in Korea, but at present it looks likely that UKA will not send any athletes so may opt for another race – may be even a wonderful new local race along the Cleveland Way – the Hardmoors 110 miles in September.

 


:: What's new

:: April 2008 news

:: Presentations

:: Full report from the 6 day world record attempt
sponsored by the Darlington Building Society:

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:: 2008 Marathon des Sables
(Word doc 51Kb)
:: 2008 Libyan Challenge

(Word doc 79Kb)

:: ITV's report on Sharon's preparation for the Libya run
(wmv video clip 7.4Mb)

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