Month: March 2025
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In the trenches
Not a good headline to start with but don’t worry, I’m not actually in the trenches in a war. It just feels a bit like the marathon training equivalent of that. Coming off a 218km week where I had hamstring tightness every day it’s probably to be expected. I took a bit longer to get…
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Time to take a breath
The fortnight of racing and cooking myself was over. Time to take a breath and change focus from track and trails to the forty two kilometres of a marathon. On Monday, I woke up feeling not too bad energy wise but my legs were very sore. I deliberated about running along the Sturt River to…
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National Mountain Championships
I’m sorry to be doing this to my devout loyal blog subscribers but some people are not as wise as you and do not follow every blog I post. Thus, they may not be aware that this is my third blog in a row of a BIG race report following on from the State 5000m…
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State 1500m
It’s 3:43am in the morning and I can’t sleep. Obviously, why else would I be up at 3:43am? I’ve been lying awake in bed for almost 2hrs pondering whether to get up, have something to eat and use the time productively. Or instead, continue staring at the ceiling and replaying the events of the last…
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State 5km
Time goes by so slowly, time goes by so slowly… That’s how this week has felt at times. Like the opening lyrics to Madonna’s ‘Hung Up’ which I never thought I’d be quoting in a blog but here we are! I also never thought I’d be writing a blog about a week preparing for two…
Fraser Darcy 