Chris Pavey

With an impressive list of races completed, including five marathons, and four half marathons, Chris Pavey knows running, and knows racing. In addition, he has raised money to great success, always smashing his fundraising targets. He knows fundraising, and how to combine his passion for distance running and fundraising in a way that inspires and motivates.

With a Masters Degree in Creative Writing, Chris has had a number of smaller pieces of work published in online Ezines, and an essay, "Capitalism: The Opium of the Masses", published in Dissent Magazine (Issue 23 Autumn / Winter 2007). This essay, was in fact, his first foray into combining his passion of running with his literary pursuits, and achieved much acclaim.

Following "Capitalism: The Opium of the Masses", a significant gap ensued in Chris' writing, where he went and became the athlete he dreamed he could be, finding himself the story he knew he needed to write. Running Against Time is the novel Chris had to live, before he could write it, which is exactly what he did. It follows on from the Run 4 Your Life magazine article, "Chris Pavey: Project Fuji", which was published in Issue 37 (August-September 2011), and provides a riveting insight into how the ordinary person can go about doing the extraordinary.

Living in Brisbane, Australia, Chris works as a technical writer for the a health insurance company, Bupa. When not working, he spends all his time, when not running of course, writing, with his two cockatiels on either shoulder, a double strength latte in his left hand, and images of his extensive travels surrounding him for inspiration. Japan is his home away from home, and the mountains are where his soul continually roams.