Hello, I'm Lale Arakoglu and welcome to women who travel, a podcast on the start line of that four times and completed it three times.

And that does a loop around the trail system in the Alistair Valley of Italy, in the Alps.

The Dragons Back traverses whales across the high mountains through Snowdonia National Park

at the beginning and then all the way down to the south coast. And I mean, that was just so cool and beautiful. And I have raced in New Zealand.

Today's guest is Nikki Wren, originally from Australia, but she spent most of her adult life in

Alberta, Canada. Reading her bio, I was amazed by the list of endurance feats

and wanted to know if it was an obsession,

if she enjoyed it, and what was actually driving her.

She's an all-round super athlete,

an ultra runner who also goes in for intense orienteering competitions

and mind-boggling hikes and bike races.

I do adventure racing as well, not so much these days,

but I've raced the Godzone adventure race,

which is on the South Island

and goes through the mountains down

in the Southern Alps on New Zealand.

And again, that was, you know,

eight days spent out in the wilderness.

I think the best thing is you see sunrises and sunsets and moonscapes and stars at night

and you see these lands in very different times of the day, which is very cool.

As someone who loves running, I'm fascinated by how she can actually do it for long, long distances

over incredibly difficult terrain all over the globe.

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