Author: Fraser Darcy
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The Art of the Weekend Warrior
Last year I lived with a man named Guangyi. For a few months, Guangyi worked on the solar farm at nearby Port Augusta in order to satisfy his Visa conditions and apply for permanent residency. Up at 6:00am, out the door by 6:30am, back in the door at 6pm and then into bed by 9pm.…
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When does life get easier?
I started out this week thinking ‘when does life get easier?’. I won a race on Sunday, I had two weeks of ‘holidays’ where I ran almost 300km’s and completed three races plus some good training sessions. Then, to finish these ‘holidays’ I jumped straight in the car, drove 4 hours home to Quorn and…
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Nothing Special
The past week has been the second week/part two of my school holidays. Like in a movie series, part two hasn’t been as high and exciting as part one. Still good, has an OK storyline and some cool locations, but the plot wasn’t as exciting as part one. These ‘Nothing Special’ weeks are the page…
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Tourist Season
Theme of this week was holidays. Holiday from teaching. Holiday from Quorn and of course the holiday from normal daily routine that comes with actually being on ‘holiday’. Each day of this week I ran either somewhere slightly different or with other runners for company. Makes the km’s tick by a lot quicker when there’s…
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Box Ticking in Brisbane
In a great example of foreshadowing I told you to ‘watch this space‘ last time I was here. If you were watching closely on my Strava over the weekend you would have seen it. If you blinked you wouldn’t have. Yes, ladies and gentleman I was up to my old tricks of slicing and dicing…
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