Marlies: So happy and grateful to having completed this wonderful marathon!! Despite the pooring rain and headwind. Best crowds in the world.

Was awesome to meet another 9 Miler, Kevin Lieschke, at the Geelong Half Marathon this morning. Wet, cold, and muddy but lots of fun! All my training lately has been at MHR so tried to stick close to that. Stopped looking at the watch at 16k and just went as hard as I could to the finish from there. Took one gel for a bit of a booster at approx 8km but didn’t really need it so didn’t take any more. Just water at the aid stations and plenty left to finish strong. Might not get to a Marathon this year but have another Half planned for September so might do a 12 week training block at HMHR before that for a bit of fun. Happy Running everyone and good luck to Marlies and anyone else doing Boston! Cheers Lon

Hi all, I'm very excited to be here - thanks for starting this community of awesome like-minded runners @Baz Zwaan and @Marlies Kort ! 💥 My name is Michelle Frost and I live in beautiful Tasmania, Australia :) A great running thing - a 60k back in 2021, training the 9Miler way online with Marlies/Baz and a little 9Miler team - it was awesome 🏃‍♀️ 🤸 💕 Another great running thing - I'm super passionate about sharing running stories to help promote running for physical and mental health reasons, on my podcast. Reach out if you're up for it :) Current running focus - 100k trail run.. I'm really looking forward to exploring what adventures ultra trail running has in store for me :) 🌳 Happy running everyone 🏃‍♀️

Very happy to have found Marlies and Baz. Completed my first marathon as a 9 miler last month inn Barcelona. Flat track and a great way to test out how my body would react to a new training and lifestyle the 9 miler way. Completed in 3 hrs and 15 mins. 15 minutes faster than when I was expecting and hoping for. Continuing this training for a 59km trail run on the 7th May. Looking forward to following everyone´s progress.