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    Running AMUK

    Mar 23, 2020 4 minutes

    RENÉ VOLLGRAAFF (38) is a journalist from Johannesburg. The sole official finisher, she says:

    Choosing from 127 hours of memories on the four 100 mile races is a tough call, and would depend on the time of day, my mood, and my blood sugar levels.

    But one of the many special memories is a taste: the taste of the water in the Lesotho streams at Ultra-Trail Drakensberg.

    The water looked so beautiful and fresh that I simply had to drink it, not because I was thirsty, but because it looked so tasty. And it was!

    I didn’t start 2019 planning to run

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