Anna Troup

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Anna Troup (born 1970) [1] is a British ultramarathon runner who, in 2021, achieved the fastest known time for a female completion of the Pennine Way. She is a qualified lawyer and works in financial management.

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Early life, education, and rowing

Troup has an MA in PPE from the University of Oxford and is a qualified lawyer, having trained at Slaughter and May. [2] While at Oxford she rowed as stroke in the winning boat in the 1991 Women's Boat Race. [3] [4] She has been chair of the Oxford University Women's Boat Club and a member of the board of The Boat Race Company, which runs The Boat Race, and is on the board of the Leander Club. [5]

Running career

On 17 August 2021, Troup completed the 268-mile (431 km) Pennine Way in 72 h 46 min, [6] [7] breaking the fastest known time previously held by Sabrina Verjee who had completed in 74 h 28 min 19 s in 2020. [8]

Troup is the female record holder of the Summer Spine Race along the route of the Pennine Way, having completed the 2021 race in a time of 80 h 28 min 35 s. [9] In the 2022 Spine Race, run in January, she dropped out at Torside; [10] the fastest female completed in 104h 08min 22s. [11]

Troup was the fastest female in the 2021 Lakeland 100 race, in which her partner, Richard Staite, was the fastest veteran; one of her daughters was the youngest finisher in the associated Lakeland 50 race, and her other daughter supported the family runners at the aid stations. [12] [13] She has also been fastest female in the 2020 Arc of Attrition 100, [14] the Wendover Woods 100, and the Exodus 100, and has been placed in several other races. [6]

As of January 2022, Troup plans to take part in the 2022 Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc, which starts on August 28. [15] [16]

Personal life and employment

Troup's partner is ultrarunner Richard Staite, and she has two daughters who also compete in ultramarathons. [3] [12] She lives in Henley. [3]

She works in financial management [2] and, among other roles, is a non-executive director of the Charles Stanley Group [17] and of T. Bailey Financial Services. [18] She is a trustee of the Triathlon Trust. [19]

In a 2019 interview, she said that her favourite book was Steve Peters's The Chimp Paradox; her favourite app, Strava; and her favourite quote, Henry Ford's words: "If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Athlete Profile: Anna Troup". World Triathlon. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  2. 1 2 "Anna Troup". www.ppf.co.uk. Pension Protection Fund. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 "Couple who love a challenge". Henley Standard. 18 March 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  4. ↑ "Meet New Committee Member: Anna Troup" (PDF). Leander News. Autumn 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  5. 1 2 Tobin, Lucy (2 August 2019). "Asset Management Specialist Anna Troup shares her insights on how a hobby can spawn a NED career". Nurole. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  6. 1 2 "Runner Anna Troup sets new women's record on 268-mile Pennine Way". FionaOutdoors. 21 August 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  7. ↑ Smith, Bob (17 August 2021). "Runner Anna Troup completes Pennine Way in new record female time". www.grough.co.uk. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  8. ↑ "Sabrina Verjee sets new female record on the Pennine Way". FionaOutdoors. 23 September 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  9. ↑ "Summer Spine Race". Spine Race. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  10. ↑ "Updates from the 2022 Montane Spine Races". Canadian Running Magazine. 9 January 2022. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  11. ↑ "Spine Race Results". Spine Race. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  12. 1 2 Duckers, Joe (6 January 2022). "Pennine Way record holder Troup heads to the Spine Race". Run247. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  13. ↑ "Lakeland 100 2021 Results". results.opentracking.co.uk. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  14. ↑ "The Arc Of Attrition 2020 Results". results.opentracking.co.uk. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  15. ↑ Hambleton, Brittany (27 January 2022). "Jim Walmsley is taking another stab at UTMB". Canadian Running Magazine. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  16. ↑ "UTMB - 2022 elite runners". utmbmontblanc.com. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  17. ↑ "Our people & locations: Anna Troup". Charles Stanley. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  18. ↑ "Anna Troup, Non Executive Director". T. Bailey Fund Services Limited. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  19. ↑ "Trustees". www.triathlontrust.org. Triathlon Trust. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
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