‘So much more respect for myself’: NZ ultrarunner Sophie Woods on smashing a 2,000km alpine run record
Sophie Woods speaks about the challenges she overcame while completing the notorious Via Alpina across eight European countriesA couple of weeks into her record-breaking 2,000km run through Europe’s alps, Sophie Woods feared she might die. Woods and her photographer had just scaled a peak in Switzerland, when a severe thunderstorm engulfed them.“The lightning was going off around us … there was nowhere to shelter in place [and] all the rocks around us were conductive,” Woods tells the Guardian, from her…
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