Category: Training
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Marathon debrief thoughts
It’s Sunday. One week on from the Adelaide Marathon. I’m outside at Huia Park because it’s not 10 degrees for once. I put down some rough thoughts on my marathon straight after the race, on the drive home, during the week at school and up until Thursday really when my body started to come good.…
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Adelaide Marathon Round 2
It’s beginning to look a lot like Spring. Cold temps have ended, the sun is up before 7am and it’s MARATHON TIME. Twelve months ago, I entered and raced the Adelaide Marathon. It was a race I only entered because of my good result at the Pichi Richi Marathon a few months earlier and the…
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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…
Fraser Darcy 