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, the Hong Kong Daily, New Zealand Herald, Seattle Post-Intelligencer and De Tijd.
In 2005 she received a Diploma with Distinction in Book Editing & Publishing from Macleay College in Sydney. Margreet's articles on running and triathlon have appeared in endurance sports magazines in Australia and Canada since 2006.
She 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, and a book of poetry, Sunshine on a wooden floor. Her books are in public library collections in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and the U.S.
One of her poems from Sunshine on a wooden floor was selected for an anthology of verse, titled Island Mists, published by the Poetry Institute of Canada in January 2011.
From my Mother is her first novel.
Margreet has worked with other authors on publishing their books: Graham E. Fuller's Three Truths and a Lie (September 2012), Timothy Moore's Sub Nine: History's Fastest Ironwomen (April 2011) and Teresa Rider's Reconnect With Food: Eat Your Way to Triathlon Success (May 2011).
Graham E. Fuller's Three Truths and a Lie, a memoir about his son Luke, a Korean adoptee who comes to an American family at age one and who gradually loses his life’s way—to die from crack cocaine at age 21. The author is a former vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council at the CIA, a former senior political scientist at RAND, and a current adjunct professor of history at Simon Fraser University.
Timothy Moore's Sub Nine: History's Fastest Ironwomen (publication April 2011). This 134-page paperback profiles the only 22 professional women triathletes who have finished an Ironman in less than nine hours in the sport's history. The author is a longtime journalist. He is a contributor to Triathlon Magazine Canada, Triathlete magazine, and Ironman.com.
Teresa Rider's Reconnect With Food: Eat Your Way to Triathlon Success. Teresa Rider is an age group world champion at the Ironman and Olympic distances. She holds an Advanced Certificate of Nutritional Sciences and is studying for a Bachelor of Science in Holistic Nutrition. With husband Scott Jones, Teresa owns Boulder-based IMJ Coaching.
Margreet, a five-time Ironman finisher with a personal best of 11:12, has been focused on running since 2005. Still aiming to improve her marathon PB of 3:00:29, she ventured into ultrarunning. She finished her first 50-mile trail race in August 2010 and her first 100km road race in November 2010, winning the 40-49 division in both.
She is the 2011 & 2012 BMO Vancouver Marathon and the 2011 Goodlife Fitness Victoria Marathon women's masters champion, and the 2011 Bellingham Bay Marathon women's champion. In 2009, she won the women's division in the North Olympic Discovery Marathon.
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