by tanyabottomley | Jul 6, 2022 | Blog, Inspiration
Ever had a group of runners together on a rainy day? no doubt someone will pipe up with ‘At least it’s not too hot!!’ I have been known in a race to be somewhat overhappy and exclaim how great the ‘nature’s staircase’ was on a particularly steep and rooty climb…my...
by tanyabottomley | Jul 4, 2022 | Blog, Inspiration
Revel… That’s the new word that I’ve added to my to-do list! If you’ve been following me for a while you’ll know I love words. Intentional, audacious…I love the way words make me feel, a good word also seems to feel good to say and I think when a word resonates it...
by tanyabottomley | Jun 14, 2022 | Blog, Inspiration
So compassion might be a weird topic to write about as an athlete…but you know me, always talking about the ‘feeling things’ and the lessons learnt on the trail. So it was somewhere along the Goerge Sound Route, deep In Fiordland, February 2022, when he had an...
by tanyabottomley | May 7, 2022 | Blog, Inspiration
In my head, it went something like this….Like something out of transformers the truck rose up like the worst Decepticon, ‘there’s only room for one of us on this road, Tanya, and I’m a hell of a lot bigger than you are!’ (cue, maniacal laugh). So I made a plan to...
by tanyabottomley | Mar 29, 2022 | Blog, Inspiration
As the heli flew towards the coast it was clear we weren’t going to have the bluebird day of our last recce. Dark clouds hung low in the sky ahead of us, and as we drew closer my heart beat faster. It’s amazing how other people’s perceptions can colour your own. On...
by tanyabottomley | Jan 24, 2022 | Blog, Inspiration
It was about 18 months ago that I wrote out a plan of all the mountains I wanted to climb. At the time I had no climbing or mountaineering experience, I had just been looking at these peaks and felt a strong desire to summit them. I’m excited to have ticked off the...
