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19/02/2026

18/02/2026

🌳Unbroken Team Trail Marathon🌳
🏃‍♂️A NEW EVENT to Brisbane’s trail running 🏃‍♀️
April 4th - April 5th, 2026
Alexandra Hills, Brisbane

Trail Trekkers and Trail Trips & Events have created a brand new trail concept perfect for anyone who loves to run, camp and hang out with your buddies:

👉 Choose your distance
👉 Share the workload
👉 hang together

The Ultra Team trail race has a simple format . Find out more HERE 👉 https://raceroster.com/events/2026/110427/unbroken-team-trail-marathon

Don’t miss the perks of this race:
🏅Earn the very cool Wild Earth Unbroken Medal
👕A FREE inaugural event shirt
🧢Order an Unbroken Trail Cap and Buff

Tag your trail buddies and make the Unbroken Team Trail Marathon your next big adventure.

Register here: https://raceroster.com/events/2026/110427/unbroken-team-trail-marathon

15/02/2026

🌲Intraining at Tarawera Ultra-Trail UTMB 🌲
🏅Celebrating our 50k, 21k , 14k and support crew🏅

The beauty of trail racing is the varying terrain. Along Tarawera’s 50km course, we had to navigate single trails, switch backs, and an early hint of the slippery footing yet to come. As the course increases in difficulty our focus on running shifted to our feet to keep each step stable and upright.

The added challenge for our 50km and 21km runners was when those two races joined at the Blue Lake. This also was the point where the trail increased in difficulty. There was no opportunity for runners to lose focus as we weaved through masses without losing balance.

Congratulations to all our 50k runners.
🏃‍♂️Clare Mitchell, Kaz Ridoutt, Laura Speed, Louisa Dunk, Lydia Isokangas, Margot Manning, Steve Manning, Vic Gin

🏃‍♀️Congratulations to our 21km runners:
John Jenvey, Elise Ridoutt, Fiona Day, Robert Day , with a special Shout out to Fiona Day for placing 3rd in her age group 60-64

🏃Congratulations to our T14k runners
Margot Brereton, Malcolm Upton

A huge thank you to Trail Trips & Events for diligently shuttling our runners around for a wonderful Tarawera ultra-trail experience. This was a huge task co-ordinating runners and support crew to be at the various race check points at all times of the day and night for 36 hours.
A massive task done extremely well.

Tarawera is a beautiful location. We had an unseasonably wet year, turning the trail race into quite an adventure race.
Our runners will be back!!
intraining Running & Triathlon Club

15/02/2026

🏃‍♀️Intraining at Tarawera Ultra-Trail UTMB 🏃‍♂️
🏅🏅Celebrating our 100k runners

The 100k runners in Tarawera had the delightful sights of Waterfalls, lakes, and Redwood forestry before descending the slopes to the geothermal fields.

Congratulations to Zoe Manning
Philip Teakle, Ian Ridoutt, Karen Spencer, Peter Pointon, Piero Hidalgo, Lucy Jenvey for finishing this scenic and gruelling course. You and your support crews put in superhuman performances this weekend.

A huge congratulations to Zoe Manning for placing 6th in the women’s field in a time of 9 hrs 45 mins, and Ian Ridoutt for winning his 60-64 age group, and for first timers…Phil, Karen, Peter, Piero & Lucy. You are all legends!!

It was through this race where the intraining community showed full strength to bring each of our 100km runners home.
Many of our 50k runners did a quick change after they finished their own event and headed out to check points to support our 100km runners get through a long, cold and wet night.

It was a tough day and night out, but each of our 100k runners worked out how much mud depth they could step Into and the usefulness of their poles before splashing through the home straight to finish.

Despite the challenges on course, there’s chatter that they’ll be back to tackle a 100km trail race again along with our Milers.
Way to go team, you were all very courageous and amazing.

50km runners, 21k & 14k runners your turn is next….

15/02/2026

Intraining at Tarawera Ultra-Trail UTMB

We train and plan for the best possible race experience but one of the challenges is adjusting race plans mid-race for unforeseen circumstances.
Tarawera through a massive curve ball for all our race plans with days of rain creating a slippery slide over steep ascents and descents.
Conditions were so hard that of the 550 Miler entries, only about 350 finished.

It was particularly hard for the Milers and 100km runners as they had to run in the dark along the same trails churned up by the earlier 50k and 21km runners.
While we will celebrate all our runners, it is a huge congratulations to our overnight Milers , Sheila, Jon & Dave and their support crew.
A special congratulations to Sheila for completing the Miler with an energetic finish on Sunday afternoon. 👏👏

Huge Kudos to Jon for making the tough call at 120km , after comfortably ticking of the km’s, due to knees finally saying they’d had enough of sliding down the slopes.
You are all incredibly tough to have tackled the course and our intraining club are so proud of you all for giving the 167km course a go!!! We’ll look foward to your next one😁

Enjoy the pics snapped by Jon on course, and Sheila celebrating as she crosses the line

The Next post will celebrate our 100k runners .

15/02/2026

Way to go Sheila for finishing the Tarawera Ultra-Trail By UTMB Miler. Your smile here says it all!!! Champion.

13/02/2026

Everyone’s ready to race
100k runners & 50k runners are heading to the start
You can keep track here on the day.

https://tarawera.v3.livetrail.net/en/2026

https://live.utmb.world/tarawera/2026

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13/02/2026

Intraining at Tarawera Ultra-Trail UTMB
🏃🏁Race day has begun🏁🏃

The Milers have started.
The rain has eased and they are looking fresh and calm.
Best wishes for a long day out on the trails. Their support crew gets to check in with their runner about every 10-15k.

These photos were from Jennekin who is supporting her husband Jon Dicks on his first Miler.

Also from intraining doing their first Miler is Cec, and Dave

13/02/2026

Intraining at Tarawera Ultra-Trail UTMB

Day three … Race day prep & pack
The day began with a Powhiri welcome - a traditional Māori welcome. They blessed our legs, slightly questioned our sanity over the distances we are travelling , and expressed care to each other on the trails. One of the leaders then shared his snap decision to enter his 25 yr old non-running nephew in the 21k. 🤣

The rest of the day has been race prep with filling our hydration packs, setting up drop bags for check points, and eating… lots of eating. 🥣

If anyone is interested in tracking what’s up at Tarawera below are 2 links and the name of all our runners are on the intraining Running & Triathlon Club FB page

Start times are : (NZ time)
Miler: 4am
T100: 7am
T50: from 7-7:30am
T21: 10am
T14 Sunday,
https://tarawera.v3.livetrail.net/en/2026

https://live.utmb.world/tarawera/2026

Stay tuned… race day is tomorrow. It’s going to be a little wet and muddy !
We’ll cheering for all our runners !

12/02/2026

Intraining at Tarawera Ultra-Trail UTMB

Day two … Registration & pre-race chilling
💨Odour training…. this mornings run was mini practice to set the scene for our race finish. The natural beauty of thermal pools was mixed with a sensory odourous blast we’ll have to prepare for in the last 7km . Little will that matter when the site of the finish banner appears… we practiced that too. 🏁🏅

After hot pool soaks, mountain bike rides and a trip to Woolies for carbo loading the crew collected race bibs at the precinct.

Race day Reality is hitting!!

If you’d like to follow along here’s the link.

Intraining at Tarawera Ultra-Trail UTMB
Day two … Registration & pre-race chilling
💨Odour training…. this mornings run was mini practice to set the scene for our race finish. The natural beauty of thermal pools was mixed with a sensory odourous blast we’ll have to prepare for in the last 7km . Little will that matter when the site of the finish banner appears… we practiced that too. 🏁🏅

After hot pool soaks, mountain bike rides and a trip to Woolies for carbo loading the crew collected race bibs at the precinct.

Race day Reality is hitting!!

If you’d like to follow along here’s the link.

https://live.utmb.world/tarawera/2026/runners

A full list of intraining runners and their race bibs are on the intraining Running & Triathlon Club page tomorrow.
P.S. got to love the T-shirts worn by our Milers so far…. Says it all!! 🤩🤩