Trudi Thomson

Trudi Thomson is a British former distance runner and ultramarathon runner, born in Middlesex in 1959 and living in Dunfermline, Fife, who took up running in her early thirties to get fit after the birth of her third daughter. She won the 36 mile Two Bridges race in Scotland in 1992, 1993 and 1994, setting a course record of 4:06:45 in 1994, and ran a Scottish track record of 8:36:53 in her first 100 kilometre race. For Great Britain she was ninth and part of the silver medal team at the 1993 IAU 100 km World Championships and finished second in 1994 in 7:42:17, a British record. She also ran the 1995 World Championships marathon, was Scottish marathon champion twice, and was part of the bronze medal Scotland team at the 1999 World Mountain Running Trophy.