Month: May 2024
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Barossa Half Marathon: Doing It With Style
Pre-Race: If I mentioned climbing and running on this blog it would not be the first time. You’d even be forgiven for rolling your eyes, not another f****** climbing reference. But dear reader, this week’s revelation is a new climbing metaphor. Often I think about having to try hard, like really hard, in climbing to…
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The running(/climbing) trip to Adelaide
Excerpt from last week’s blog: I could see myself potentially hot footing it to Adelaide for the weekend for more training companions but we’ll see how that plays out. If I do, it’ll potentially mean I’m on that schedule of Thursday night – Tuesday day in Adelaide, Tuesday day – Thursday night in Quorn for the next…
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Road to Nowhere
This week’s revelation on my Sunday long run was that I am beginning to believe further in the concept that I will never be satisfied with my running and perfection is impossible, hence, treating races as if they are the end of a single training block and culmination of my efforts is a fallacy. Even…
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Back in Business… I think
This blog comes to you the day two days after I raced the Salisbury Run Half Marathon. I entered the race sometime last week after I finished off my Tuesday session of 6*1km with paces that encouraged me to think I was back in business. The fact I was able to run a few sub…
