Category: Training
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Jason Bourne Goes to Orange, NSW
Role models are important in life. Everyone looks up at the clock to check the time like they look up to their role models to check for guidance on what to do and how to do it. Now, selecting Jason Bourne, a fictional action-hero, as the tone for this trip could be slightly left-field but…
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Warburton Trail Festival – 22km Donna Double Race Report
Well well well, things stepped up a notch in the racing department over the weekend. Literally and figuratively. I was encouraged to enter a race in Warburton (Victoria) that might give me a better run for my money than the Adelaide races I’ve entered as of late. The race itself was 22km consisting of about…
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Training Adaptations: Horses for Courses
Another week in the books for my training as summer comes to an end. This past week I was down in Adelaide following the frivolities of last weekend’s wedding and race. A change in training location was good and allowed me to fit a lot more elevation change in some of my easy afternoon or…
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ATR – Onkaparinga Race
I’ve been in the kitchen this week because I can handle the heat. Yes, don’t believe the hype of the BOM because last week’s heatwave through SA wasn’t actually that bad. The training I fit in around the sun was all tickety-boo, got a bit sweatier than usual but was able to hit my paces.…
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Bringing the heat
Final week of summer and things are looking hot here in The Flinders. It’s now into my eighth week of training in this block and just as the temperature is heating up, so is the intensity of training and racing. Stacking weeks of good solid back-to-back workouts has improved my running ‘form’ (posture), my ability…
Fraser Darcy 