Category: Training
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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…
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Building Consistency
A recurring idea I have mentioned once or twice in the last few weeks is the personal theory I hold that if I can string two 100+km’s weeks of training together I will feel fit. I have passed that mark and now feel fit. It’s almost three weeks of running if you start counting just…
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Changing of the seasons
Mid-April isn’t a season change by most people’s definitions but in the world of fraserdarcy.com it is. Pool season ended for me a week ago, I took a ‘holiday’ down to Adelaide last week starting with the Clare 10k and then wrapped it up with the Australian Athletics Championships. The holiday in Adelaide is over…
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The Clare 10k… the return of the dirtbag?
I didn’t know if I’d start, I didn’t know how I’d race and I didn’t know how I’d pull-up. That’s a lot of unknowns for a Sunday morning as I drove down to Clare for the 10k I’d entered. Listening to a podcast while I drove at 5:15am, I was not trying to distract myself…
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