Everest Marathon

So after blindness, my whole thing was to get back to racing.

And I got silver and bronze in the Commonwealth Games, rowing for Northern Ireland, did six marathons in a week in the Gobi Desert, the North Pole Marathon, the Dead Sea Ultra, the Everest Marathon, the Zurich Ironman, the South Pole Race.

You know, I'd really... my identity was really hanging on being a competitor.

And then when I broke my back, the marketing and ad people were saying, okay, well, you're now, you know, you're curing paralysis.

But since then, she has taken things into a completely different level.

She went to Nepal, ran the Everest Marathon, which surprisingly was her very first one.

And then she went to Italian Alps and took on something that is difficult to even imagine, 450 kilometers, 32,000 meter of elevation gain, and 173 hours on her feet, and with only 10 hours of sleep.

Just think about that for a moment.

One of my friends, she started this business where she plans these trips all around the world, um, and she's a big ultrarunner.

And yeah, she actually came to me with the idea.

She was like, "Would you wanna do the Everest Marathon and do this whole trip to Nepal?" And then she's also affiliated with HOKA, and HOKA was, like, sponsoring her trip, donating some gear and things like that.

And so I was like, oh, this might, you know, work out really well, you know, with HOKA, and, you know, I've always wanted to do this race.