Roes looks ahead on iRunFar

Posted in The Sweat by Matt Ward on Wed 16 Jan '13

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Geoff Roes

As many a long-distance runner will tell you obtaining that balance of good health, fitness, motivation and happiness when out there can be a rare occurrence – and often those ‘planets’ never align at the same time…

Geoff Roes, it can be said, has had his fair share of difficulties in maintaining these areas of his running in the 12-18 months, so much so that the US ultra-trail runner has only managed “half a dozen runs in the last five months”.

An excellent piece on iRunFar explains that life doesn’t always play out as we wish, but testimony to the Montrail runner’s resilience is that despite his health setbacks Geoff is still optimistic about the year ahead and says that:

Right now I don’t know when I will make a serious attempt to start back on this path, but based on the improvements in my health in the past month it will quite likely be sometime in the next few months.

Read the full article here

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Geoff leads Tony Krupicka on his way to victory at the WS100 2010

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