Hey mate, Let me take you to New York. It's 2016, a few weeks after I’ve competed in the Ironman World Championships. My Ironman journey had been included in an NBC documentary and I’d flown over to…
Turia PittJuly 16, 2021
When I was at uni, I decided to enter a Miss Earth beauty pageant. We wore bikinis when we were talking about the particular environmental issue we were passionate about (very serious 😂). I’d probably…
Turia PittMay 14, 2021
Hello my friend! A few months ago, Samuel Johnson invited me to write a letter to my Mum, for his new book Dear Mum. I leapt at the chance, because: a) you know I like writing…
Turia PittMay 9, 2021
One day last week, I looked up and saw an eagle hovering over our backyard. It circled Rahiti, and my motherly instinct went into overdrive. I envisaged one of those YouTube videos where a giant…
Turia PittApril 1, 2021
It was my second ever Mother’s Day. I’d come home from a surf to find Michael and Hakavai in the driveway, in the car, with the engine revving. “C’mon darl, jump in, we’re going camping!”…
Turia PittMarch 21, 2021
It was a rigmarole getting my hospital records in the first place. “Yes, I know, but I need the records relating to my nose operations” I politely spoke down the line. “Yes, I’ve had heaps…
Turia PittMarch 14, 2021
“C’mon kids, let’s go on an adventure!” Dad roared down the hallway. I groaned inwardly. Dad’s adventures were … unusual. There was the time he made us collect a dead fish from the beach so…
Turia PittMarch 3, 2021
In 2019, when Hakavai was a year old, I signed up for the Mountain Run at the Kathmandu Coast to Coast. A 30 kilometre course forging through rivers, over boulders, and up a mountain range.…
Turia PittJanuary 14, 2021
On the 1st of January last year, I wrote a list. Not a list of goals and resolutions for the year ahead….. I wrote a doomsday list. Here’s a screenshot ('scuse the typos!): …
Turia PittJanuary 11, 2021
