BRIGHT woman Lucy Clark has smashed a running speed record - completing the 3000-kilometre Te Araroa trail in New Zealand in just 66 days and seven hours.

Clark finished her epic adventure on Thursday, covering the length of the North and South Islands, finishing with champagne in hand at Bluff, a town on the far south coast.

The run had been a dream of Clark’s for years, and she had spent the past year training insatiably for it.