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

Links to watch live

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.
Project Peru
Tabiology
Naoki's Instagram
Naoki's Facebook
Naoki's Webpage

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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
Live Adventure
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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Quinlan Faris is an avid hiker, coffee enthusiast who hails from Madison, Wisconsin. His journey took him to Japan 20 years ago after a ten-month spell in China where he was a student of Tibetan Buddhism and Classical Tibetan Language. After a decade in Tokyo, during which time he took multiple back-packing trips to India and Nepal, he moved north to Iwate in 2010. You’ll most likely find him up a local volcano, hiking through a storm, fighting a bear (probably happened) or foraging for wild vegetables to feed his Airbnb guests and entertain his YouTube subscribers.

Links

Quinlan's YouTube Channel
Quinlan's Website
Mount Iwate

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Mrs Preeti Dattatraya Maske, from Pune India is a 46 year old mother, wife, ultracyclist, ultrarunner, entreprenuer, motivational speaker and social worker.
In addition to all this Preeti is an Ironman and has 5 Guinness World Record Awards under her belt! 
Preeti started her fitness journey after running a 5k at her child's school and clocking a time of 25 minutes, in her forties.

• Golden Quadrilateral 6000 km cycling in 24 days Mar 2021 
• Completed Pune to Kolhapur 220 km running in 46 hrs
• Manali to Leh cycling in 55 hours Jun 2022 as GWR
• Manali to Leh running 4 days 22 hrs Aug 2022 GWR   
• West to East 4000 km cycling in 13 days 18 hrs as GWR
• Kashmir to Kanyakumari cycling in 11 days 22 hrs as a GWR in Feb 2023
• ⁠Bhutan Nepal India cycling in 10 days 18 hrs as a GWR in May 2023
• Ironman Barcelona Spain in 15 hrs 07 min in Oct 2023
• Completed 338 km running @ vineyard ultra in 73 hrs 45 min in Feb 2024
• Ambassador of Border Road organisation & Organ donation awareness,
• Founder of Topspeed Bicycles pvt ltd, 
• Co-Founder of Bamboosh Bicycles Pvt Ltd, 
• Founder of NGO World on Wheels Foundation

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Preeti's Instagram

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Day 21!

Today's gem is from Liesl Koch.

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Today's gem is from Tobie Reyneke! Now Tobie has completed over 100, 100 mile races.

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Shiori Statter is one of three women who ran the Tokyo Backyard Ultra this past November.Shiori managed to clock up an impressive 100km, meaning she ran the backyard loop for 15 hours. Shiori is also a professional in the fitness industry. Shiori also takes on challenges such as starting the New Year with a 100km run around her block!

" The backyard ultra or last one standing is a form of ultramarathon race where competitors must consecutively run the distance of 6.706 kilometres (4.167 mi) in less than one hour, which is a pace of 100 miles per 24 hours. The race is over when only one runner remains to complete a lap. This runner is marked as the winner and only finisher, with all other runners receiving a "DNF" (Did Not Finish). The runner who completes the second-most laps in a race is often referred to as the "assist", in the sense that their effort is ultimately what determines how long the race is allowed to continue--there is no predefined end length or time in a backyard ultra, as long as multiple runners can complete each loop within an hour." ~ source Wikipedia.

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Tokyo Backyard Ultra
Shiori's Instagram
Shiori's webpage
Arnold
Run for Life: How to Run, Walk and Move Without Pain or Injury and Acheive a Sense of Well-Being by Mark Cucuzzella

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