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