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Travelling Fit partners with Run Nation Running Film Festival Running is an active, doing word. Watching implies a more passive past-time, so getting runners to sit and watch films on running that aren’t focused on technique or improvement, is a bit like pairing ice-cream with peanut butter. It works! Keith Hong gave this unique pairing […]

Travelling Fit are delighted to announce that we are the official travel company for the Great Ocean Road Running Festival. Victoria’s iconic Great Ocean Road, a beautiful and unique area of Victoria, Australia on the Southern Ocean, is home to one of the world’s most visually spectacular running events, the Great Ocean Road Running Festival […]

2 magical running weekends   Walt Disney World Marathon PLUS Star Wars Half Marathon – The Light Side = Coast to Coast Challenge Mari-Mar Walton, founder and director of Travelling Fit, entered runDisney events both in Florida and California in January this year. She travelled with her family (Husband Michael, and children: Emma aged 10 […]

Last weekend’s Marathon Des Sables training camp, set up by Travelling Fit, was certainly an eye opener and a valuable experience for those running in this year’s event which is just over 12 weeks away. On Saturday we hit the beach sand for 32kms from Stockton Beach to Anna Bay, NSW. The highest tide was […]

Congratulations Clive! Congratulations to one of our clients Clive Choate on his outstanding achievement. Here is a link to the featured article from The Western Australian that ran on Friday, 30 December, it is a great read and a nice little video clip also shows what an amazing achievement this is. Well done Clive and […]

LIFE-CHANGING DESERT EXPERIENCE The unique Australian Outback Marathon has carved itself into marathon history after only six years of running. Created by Travelling Fit owners and managers, Mari-Mar Walton and Michael Walton, when they saw an unfilled need in Australian experiences while visiting Uluru in 2004, the marathon took another six years to get off […]

CONQUERING THE SAHARA ON FOOT People do marathons for many reasons, but some marathons pin you to your goal and push you past any boundaries you thought might exist, to spit you out the other end a different person. Marathon Des Sables, 250km of pure personal challenge across the Sahara over seven days, is one […]

I’LL HAVE ICE WITH MINE THANKS Marathons, they’re everywhere – even in Antarctica, providing people such as Queenslander Sharon Ryder with ‘crazy challenges’ that just have to be met. She describes her recent Travelling Fit-organised run in the frozen northern landscape as incredible. “It was a crazy challenge due to the environment, weather and elements.” […]

The Story of Travelling Fit Running marathons takes guts and tenacity and a strong belief in yourself – or the encouragement of someone who has done it, and knows that you can too. Mari-Mar Walton, founder and managing director of Travelling Fit, is one of those people but at 19 she wasn’t ‘travelling fit’ and […]

INDIGENOUS RUNNING PROGRAM A MARATHON EFFORT When Australian running legend Rob de Castella has an idea, people listen. His idea in 2009 to find Australian indigenous runners to beat the pants off the athletic-world-dominating African runners, took off as the Indigenous Marathon Project in 2010 when a squad of four indigenous men ran the New […]