Month: June 2023
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Pichi Richi 10.5km Race Report
Pre-Race: ‘Yeah yeah, that’s the way to do it, a combo of nice aesthetics, not too hard a warm-up, drop in when they’re not expecting it, then smack the race, run back to the car for an extended cool down and then choose your own adventure’.*** This is where my brain got to after some…
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Back in the Kitchen with the Central Governor
New theory off the bat to kick-start regular programming. It’s somewhat of an extension of the Central Governor theory by Tim Noakes which proposes that your brain has a little person inside pulling the strings on what your heart and muscles can output given what the little person knows about how far you’ve been running…
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The Austrian Diaries: Overall Reflections
It’s Saturday morning back at Quorn. Not even one whole week back in Oz from Aus. I slept 10 hours last night and am still tired. Today will be an easy day hopefully and I’ll feel fresher from here. Being an easy day it also allows me to put down my final reflective thoughts on…
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The Austrian Diaries: #9
I may have finished my race but the show does not stop there. I had no real plans for after my race. I had organised it that way so I could keep myself open to anything that popped up and just embrace the championships in a bit of a ‘free-spirited’ way. No expectations. Kind of…
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The Austrian Diaries: #88
The sequence of events leading up the World Champs in the previous editions of The Austrian Diaries were chronicled daily. To fully engage in the experience that was the ‘2023 Innsbruck-Stubai World Mountain and Trail Running Championships’ I let the daily diary slide and went full Raoul Duke/Hunter.S.Thompson. Yes. This is Fear and Loathing in…
Fraser Darcy 