25/08/2026
Wow - so much going on for my coaching clients in Q3. Here is part 1 of celebrating some of the races and events they stepped up to this summer. A post to celebrate all of you, finishers AND those with unfinished business. You all worked bloody hard for it. I am proud of you all 🙌🏼
put a satisfying big tick behind her big audacious goal of completing tourdivide2026 for her 40th. She finished within her target time: managed her ultra-racing processes like a boss; kept her head; and gained both that quiet confidence that comes from doing hard things and the healthy perspective that after a big race like that, lots of Type 1 fun is the best way to go about a well-earned sabbatical !
Cindy 玄温 Hertach used the extreme climbing experience from completing 2VolcanoSprint earlier this year, and the resilience gained from an unfortunate DNF due to illness in The Transcontinental last year, to ace her and treat herself to fully enjoying the Finishers’ Party !
Jason King set himself the challenge of not just one but two LRMs this year. LRMs are long brevets of at least 1200km validated by Les Randonneurs Mondiaux. First up was the X-***ed (bare bones) 1300km West Coast, Highlands, Glens & Inner Isles. A non-competitive unsupported ultra distance event, and no easy feat with a 108h cut-off for 1300km in wet, hilly, midgey Scotland !
Alex Grahame had so much proper type 1 ultra cycling fun during PanCelticRace in beuatifully sunny weather in Ireland after racing hard during The Perfidious Albion earlier this year. 📸 Ariel Wojciechowski
Nicole Ostrand pushed herself mentally and physically to greater heights completing the Wachau Radmarathon, a 202km televised (!) event with 3130m of elevation in beautiful Austria, as per power, pacing, speed and nutrition targets she impressively diligently built towards in training 👏🏼
After encountering deep hardship earlier this year that puts any temporary mental, physical or emotional pain during ultra cycling events in bleak perspective, absolutely thrived during the flaty888 which in contrast to its name is far from flat ! When you do