
23 April 2025
Stepping Off the Map
What happens when you chase a goal so big it scares you? I’m about to find out at the Great Naseby Water Race, where I’ve signed up for the 200-mile event.

What happens when you chase a goal so big it scares you? I’m about to find out at the Great Naseby Water Race, where I’ve signed up for the 200-mile event.

Faces in the rocky landscape and voices in the scrub were the subtle and somewhat strangely welcome hallucinations that greeted me as I ran the last few kilometres toward the Northburn 100 mile race finish line.