Price began to run when a friend convinced her to sign up for the Medoc Marathon. She was not unfit as she had been living in Colorado, cycling and skiing, but she was not a runner.

“I still don’t consider myself a runner, I am a mountain goat,” said Price, who is originally from the UK. “I go up quite fast and down quite fast but on the flats I just survive.”

From the marathon she moved to the trails and found her base strength earned from cycling and skiing allowed her to climb quickly. She was invited by friend James Pearson to join his Trailwalker team and the rest is history.

“When I realised I was doing well it was a surprise,” she said.

Price never took her training particularly seriously, not bothering to monitor her weekly mileage or heart rate, but just ran for the fun of it, which added to her shock when she started racking up prizes.

One such prize was coming first in the Moontrekker 30km overall. “It’s always fun when you do well and when you are ‘chicking’ a load of guys who are good runners as well,” she said. “It doesn’t really mean anything, but it is fun and I look back on it with a chuckle.”

She is also particularly proud of her 2007 Trailwalker team that set the women’s record, and of reaching the overall Trailwalker podium with a mixed team in 2016.

The race two years ago was the last time Price raced competitively, and she has since moved her focus elsewhere.

Price needed a rest and perhaps if she had been more scientific about her training an increased efficiency might have resulted in more longevity, but the sport of ultra running is rarely kind to the body.

Even at Price’s peak, 100 milers (161km) were too much for her. She did finish Western States and Ultra Trail Mount Fuji, but also dropped out of UTMB a number of times.

“I’d say 120km is probably my maximum, 100 miles is too much for me,” she said. “I would have loved to have finished UTMB but at the same time I’m clear on what my strength is and it’s too much for my body.”

The closest she came to finishing the famous French race was in the early 2000s, when the event was in its infancy. She entered it as training for Trailwalker and once she passed 100km, she decided to call it quits.

But the move to Portugal is likely to give her a second wind, so we might see her tearing up the trails once again, albeit in Europe.

“I’ll have time and it is beautiful,” Price said. “I guess what motivated me in trail running from the start was being able to travel through a beautiful landscape.”

What’s more, a fellow former Hongkonger who lives in Portugal, Clive Saffery, is in his 60s and still running ultras. He was running 100 milers like Badwater “before some of us were born”, Price said, so is likely to drag her back out on the trails.

But first, she will push herself at Moontrekker, a Hong Kong swansong for a runner who has achieved so much. When she started, it was a sport for a few mad people but she will finish with a few thousand other competitors.

“What has surprised me is the number of races,” she said. “I’m not surprised the sport has developed and so many people do it as it is so accessible in Hong Kong.”

But for Price, even as the sport has grown and become more professional, she kept a relaxed approach.

“It was quite organic,” she said. “It’s taken me on a journey where I’ve been surprised and said ‘Wow, I’ve done all right’.”