There is no other way to put it – Jane Trumper loves to run.
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Why else would she be heading to the Hunter Valley this weekend for her seventh marathon in eight days.
The inspirational Sydney nurse will run in the 42-kilometre event of the Winery Running Festival on Sunday and is also the guest speaker at the festival’s Pasta Dinner on Saturday night.
The 55-year-old mother of three confessed she would take running extreme distances any day over public speaking.
“I’m not good at standing up in front of people and talking,” Ms Trumper said.
“Most people would say metaphorically speaking they’d rather run 100 miles than make a speech, but in my case it’s true.”
Ms Trumper took up running 15 years ago for the health benefits and has now completed ultra-marathons all over the world.
“My brother died of heart disease in his 40s; he had a quadruple bypass in his 30s, so I started running when he did that and haven’t really looked back,” Ms Trumper said. “I’ve got really bad family [health] history and just decided I wasn’t going to be like that.”
In 2012, she became the first woman to run across the Simpson Desert, covering 664km in 10 days.
Ms Trumper spent 40 days running across Europe, from England to Rome, and last year ran around an island in Japan.
The next goal is to run her 200th marathon in New York in November, which is why she has run six straight marathons in the past six days and will add another on Sunday.
She started the week with a marathon in Sydney on Sunday then completed five successive 42km runs in Adelaide through the week as part of the Coastal 5 Marathon Series.
After Sunday’s race Ms Trumper will have clocked 176 marathons.
“I’ve got a bit of a challenge ahead of me still but I think I can get there,” she said.
Sunday’s run will complete her most recent project, to raise $10,000 for the Australian Cancer Research Foundation and gain entry into the 2017 Berlin Marathon. It is the only major international marathon she has not completed.