Anna Heather Frost (born 1 November 1981) is a

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and

ultra runner adopted by British military intelligence in June 1941 for wartime signals intelligence obtained by breaking high-level encrypted enemy radio and teleprinter communications at the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park. '' ...

Running career

Frost turned professional in 2004 and later began running for Team Salomon. In 2012, she won the

Transvulcania Transvulcania is a long distance race that is held annually on La Palma, one of the western Canary Islands. It is considered one of the hardest mountain-ultramarathons in the world and one of the most important in Spain. The total route has a leng ...

ultramarathon in the

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in a record time of 8:11:31., but did not return to defend her title the next year. She finished first at the

Speedgoat 50K Speedgoat 50k is an international skyrunning competition held for the first time in 2008. It is run every year in Little Cottonwood Canyon (Utah, United States) in July and consists of four races, a 50K, 28K, 11K, and a 2-day challenge. In 2012, 2 ...

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in 2012, second at the Ultra Cavalls del Vent in the

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mountains of

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, and first at the Maxi-Race in

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. In June 2013, she won the Trail du Colorado race in

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. In 2010, Frost won the overall title in the

Skyrunner World Series The Skyrunner World Series is an annual international championship of skyrunning (high altitude endurance races) and the official International Skyrunning Federation (ISF) race circuit for mountain running. Each year the Skyrunner World Series pr ...

. The series included wins at the Table Mountain Challenge and the

Three Peaks Race The Three Peaks Race is a fell race held annually on the last weekend in April, starting and finishing in Horton in Ribblesdale. The course traverses the Yorkshire Three Peaks. The present distance is about 23 miles (37 km). The first kn ...

, among others. In 2014, Frost won the

Bear 100 Mile Endurance Run The Bear 100 Mile Endurance Run is an ultramarathon that traverses the Wasatch and Bear River Ranges west of Bear Lake, from Logan, Utah to Fish Haven, Idaho. With of climb and an average elevation of , it is one of the more difficult ultra ...

in her first attempt at the 100 mile distance. Having used the race as a qualifier for the

Hardrock 100 The Hardrock Hundred Mile Endurance Run is an ultramarathon in length, with of climb at an average elevation of over . The race is held on a loop course on 4WD roads, dirt trails, and cross country in Southern Colorado's San Juan Range, US. T ...

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, she won Hardrock the following year. Frost is sponsored by Merrell and

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, among others.

Personal life

Frost is from

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. She and her husband, Ron Braselton, had their first child in March 2019. In 2015, the SisuGirls project began releasing a series of middle-grade books covering true stories of women in action and adventure sports. The first book in the series, ''Fearless Frosty'', was written by Chloe Chick and focuses on Anna Frost.

Results

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Frost, Anna New Zealand female long-distance runners Living people 1981 births Female ultramarathon runners New Zealand ultramarathon runners New Zealand sky runners