Author: Fraser Darcy
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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…
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The Austrian Diaries: #7
Part 1: I said I mightn’t get one done but here I am in the mid-afternoon with time up my sleeve. The shifting of the base from Gotzens to semi-downtown Innsbruck went smoothly. Washing all dried, easy jog ticked off, even a bit of school work attended to before a nice bus ride into town.…
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The Austrian Diaries: #6
Good start to the day by reading this one from Marcus Aurelius. Better get out and get my work done for the day by checking out the Kreuzjoch section again. I picked up my official accreditation yesterday arvo which meant I now had free access to public transport and the cable car up to the…
