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Margreet Dietz
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http://www.goodreads.com/margreetdietz
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female |
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http://margreetdietz.com/ |
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Nonfiction, Sports, Literature & Fiction
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about this author
Margreet Dietz is the author of four non-fiction books, A Hundred Reasons to Run 100km, Running Shoes Are a Girl’s Best Friend, Powered From Within: Stories About Running & Triathlon and A Work in Progress: Exercises in Writing.
She also wrote a book of poetry, Sunshine on a wooden floor.
Her latest book is From my Mother, a novel.
Margreet is the editor of Timothy Moore's Sub Nine: History's Fastest Ironwomen and Teresa Rider's Reconnect With Food: Eat Your Way to Triathlon Success.
Born in the Netherlands in 1970, Margreet has been a professional (anglophone) journalist since 1996. Margreet reported for Bloomberg News from Brussels, Toronto and Sydney, and worked as a copy-editor at The Australian Financial Review in Sydney.
The stories she wrote for Bloomberg News have been published in newspapers worldwide, including in the International Herald Tribune, Globe and Mail, The Vancouver Sun, National Post, The Australian Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, New Zealand Herald, Seattle Post-Intelligencer and De Tijd.
Margreet's articles on running and triathlon have appeared in endurance sports magazines in Australia and Canada since 2006.
In 2005 she received a Diploma with Distinction in Book Editing & Publishing from Macleay College in Sydney.
Margreet also holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a master’s degree in International and Comparative Law.
A five-time Ironman finisher, she is aiming to improve her marathon PB of 3:06 and has ventured into ultra-running.
Margreet was the female Top Master at the 2011 BMO Vancouver Marathon and the 2011 Goodlife Fitness Victoria Marathon, and overal women's champion at the 2011 Bellingham Bay Marathon and 2009 North Olympic Discovery Marathon.
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