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Not a runner myself and the media might have it wrong but i read she runs 20km a day? like wtf? So many hills in the area that seems way to much .
 

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Not a runner myself and the media might have it wrong but i read she runs 20km a day? like wtf? So many hills in the area that seems way to much .

Your first 4 words? She's known within her friendship group as a regular runner, there are people older than her that regularly pound the pavement/roads/tracks in the hilly Mt Helen area. Not sure media said 20km every day, but definitely that her Sunday morning run was a planned 20km one.
 
They never caught Tracey Howard's killer.

And there was this...

“Investigators believe the killer was from the local area and remains in the local area,” Acting Det-Insp Buick told the Herald Sun.

Long time ago and not saying they are connected but Brown Hill is only a short drive from Canadian.
 
Not a runner myself and the media might have it wrong but i read she runs 20km a day? like wtf? So many hills in the area that seems way to much .
Definitely a big run, in the order of two hours. Very few people do 20km every day (who has the time?), but quite a lot do regular 20km runs.
 
I wonder if she has a Strava or an equivalent? Anyone running 20km+ at 7am is a fairly serious runner and would most likely be tracking their runs.

Looks like she was wearing a smart watch in that photo. If so surely there is a digital history of her movements.

Did she have her phone with her on the run though?

If not, then any digital history will still be on the watch and not yet available on the cloud.
 

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They never caught Tracey Howard's killer.

And there was this...

“Investigators believe the killer was from the local area and remains in the local area,” Acting Det-Insp Buick told the Herald Sun.

Long time ago and not saying they are connected but Brown Hill is only a short drive from Canadian.
I moved from Canadian to Brown Hill last October, right near Russell Square now. I now drive down Eureka St daily takin my girls to work in Sebas.
 
If you were training for a marathon doing a long run like that once a week would be the minimum, on top of shorter runs during the week
For sure. She's older - not sure we're allowed to describe people as elderly any more! - I have no idea of her work life, kids have probably moved out, maybe she has plenty of free time, maybe most days she can do 20km. I find it hard to set aside an hour a day for exercise but I'm pretty busy.
 
For sure. She's older - not sure we're allowed to describe people as elderly any more! - I have no idea of her work life, kids have probably moved out, maybe she has plenty of free time, maybe most days she can do 20km. I find it hard to set aside an hour a day for exercise but I'm pretty busy.

She's 51, kids still at home, and she runs the family business with her husband, running the office of a fair-sized and busy panel repair business.

Btw 51 is middle-aged, not elderly. 😉
 
Could easily be that she has fallen down an abandoned mine shaft, there are heaps in that area.

A few of us who know the area quite well have pointed out that is probably the least likely scenario.

Mine shafts are not on or adjacent to major tracks, you'd need to move away from the track.

IF she's moved (or been moved) away from a track due to assault or medical episode, mine shafts MAY come into play.
 

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