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Courage: it’s a strange virtue (and not always a positive one). It can take many forms and be demonstrated in many different and diverse ways. Something that for one person may require immense courage to achieve could be a simple stroll in the park for someone else. There is no way to define it, bottle it or any real way to exercise or train it. However, there often are individual actions or events that most, if not all, would agree take massive courage to achieve. Going above and beyond ‘normal’ to make history and prove how far the human body (and brain) can go when the will and desire are there…
"Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”
Maya Angelou
This week we celebrate women who have spent 2024 demonstrating that courage takes many forms, but is in no way less inspiring. Women who have achieved incredible, brain-bending results through serious determination, focus and willpower…courage laid out bare. From Jasmin Paris’ epic and incredible finish at the Barkley Marathons to Camille Herron’s six-day world record and Donna Urquhart’s cold run into the record books in Antarctica, these athletes have proven that courage can lead to exhilarating and previously impossible feats. Read on and be inspired…
Until next week, be safe and enjoy the trails...
Even the organiser and founder of a brutal, insane race often called ‘the race that eats its young’ had scepticism that a woman could complete the race within the cut-off time: until Jasmin Paris came along and defied expectations, with only seconds to spare…
Camille Herron just doesn’t know when to quit. At the Further race event earlier this month, she ran almost 100 miles a day over six days to beat not one but 11 world records and show what courage and determination can achieve…
Treadmills in refrigerated containers, running in wind tunnels and using the beach for training…Australian Donne Urquhart left no stone unturned in her quest to run for the longest ever in Antarctica, supplanting Pat Farmer (who we have featured before) to achieve a new world record…
Courage can take many forms and it isn’t always demonstrated in grand ways and record-breaking adventures…but often in the everyday struggle, something Asliyah Earvin has shown with her run club for local BIPOC…
📸 Cornwall, England
Each week I update the Kings of the Trail playlist with a new selection – just like trail runs or hikes, you can be sure that it will be a varied and eclectic journey, but hopefully, there will be something for everyone to enjoy.
The Chicks (who dropped the Dixie part of their name due to its links to the slave-owning South) released this track in 2020. Solid consistent beats and floating vocals make it a top track, but the message of being ‘an army of one’ and marching to your own drum certainly resonates with this week’s incredible women in the stories above. Strong, determined and focused…and ready to take on the world. March On.
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