The Running Voyager Linda Kapembeza

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Hiroaki is a NorthFace athlete based in Niigata. He was born in Shizuioka and as a young man he dreamt of being  a professional soccer player, it was because he needed to run to stay fit for soccer that he got into running. In addition to being an extremely accomplished ultrarunner in his own right, Aki is also an events and race organiser as well as a podcast host himself. He organises the "Trail Runner's Cup", Mount Awa Skyrace and Deep Japan Ultra. Aki, is also the founder of trailrunners.jp which is an invaluable resourse
In this episode we talk a lot about trail running in Japan, Deep Japan Ultra and his vision in seeing the growth and expansion of local trail running at an international level. We also talk about Transgrancanaria, his run at Ultra Trail Cape Town and MtFuji100.

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Transgrancanaria
Ultra Trail Cape Town
Deep Japan Ultra
Mt Fuji 100
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The iconic Fuji 100, is now part of World Trail Majors, comprising various 100 milers all over the world. This race is about 166km with an accumulative vert gain of about 7039.
The race will be broadcast live in both Japanese and English. Updated with an insights from James Mallion on the 100 as well as the Kai

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English brodcast
Japanese Broadcast
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Nicolette is an accomplished   top long-distance and ultra trail runner in South Africa. Before focusing her attention primarily on running Nicolette  was a podium age group triathlete and mountain biker. Nicolette has been competing for almost 10 years and still races competitively.Nicolette  is  a veterinarian by trade and also shares her love of running and years of self-coaching experience with others.  Apart from sport and animals, Nicolette has a passion for life and the natural world.
Athletic Career Highlights -Running
Ultra Trail Cape Town 2023 100 miler 1st woman, 4th overall (26:11:08)
Ultra Trail Drakensburg 2023 100km 3rd woman, 11th overall (14:21:52)
Otter African Trail Run - 7 x finisher
Sky Run 100km (1st)
Ultra Trail Drakensberg 100km (1st)
UTCT 100km (1st)
Heaven & Hell 88km (1st)
Dodo Trail 50km (Mauritius) (1st)
Les Templiers 75km (France) (Top 10)
Mountain Running Championship 40km (Slovenia) (5th)
Cycling
Magoeba Trek 2022 (2nd Mixed)
Magalies Monster 65km 2023 (2nd)
Trailseeker Van Gaalens 75km 2023 (3rd)
Trailseeker Prime View 75km 2023 (3rd)
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Naoki Shimizu is a GPS artist runner. One of Naoki's principles in his running endeavours is to make running an accessible sport to everyone. His GPS journey began when he wanted to create a sport that his students in wheelchairs could also enjoy. Naoki has run over 12,500km in countries all over the world with over 1350 pieces of art under his belt.
In 2023 Naoki and bicycle follow-up record photographer Masuo Keiryou, ran the whole island of Taiwan in a project titled "2023 GPS Run for LOVE" where he spelt out the word love with Taiwan representing the letter O.
This month he is starting project Peru, Naoki will be running 3,000km through Peru also celebrating the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Peru, his art this time will be a giant alpaca.
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Sheena and Shaun, are the founders of Live Adventure which has been running for over a decade, and they are the race organizers and race directors of the Addo Elephant Trail Run.

Addo Elephant Trail Run
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Washie 100 Miler


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Bruce Noel Stevenson Fordyce (born 3 December 1955 in Hong Kong) is a South African marathon and ultramarathon athlete. He is best known for having won the South African Comrades Marathon a record nine times, of which eight wins were consecutive. He also won the London to Brighton Ultra Marathon three years in a row. He is the former world record holder over 50 miles and the former world record holder over 100 km, the 100km record was broken by Jim Walmsley in 2019.
Fordyce also introduced the Parkrun running events to South Africa in November 2011.This is a collection of free-entry weekly 5k run events. There are now 210 parkrun events in South Africa as of 16 October 2023.Bruce Fordyce ran his 500th parkrun at Delta Park, Johannesburg, the first South African parkrun venue, on 14 October 2023. Parkrun south africa had 26 runners at the innuagural race in 2011, and now has a membership of over 1.4million members.
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