Category: Training
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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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One year to the next
Every time I sit down to write one of these blogs I quickly read the last blog. What did I finish with last time? How would it read sequentially? Last time I finished with an outlook to two weeks of training and school work and an anecdote from Western States. Why not begin with another…
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Pichi Richi 10.5km Race Report
Pre-Race: ‘Yeah yeah, that’s the way to do it, a combo of nice aesthetics, not too hard a warm-up, drop in when they’re not expecting it, then smack the race, run back to the car for an extended cool down and then choose your own adventure’.*** This is where my brain got to after some…
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Back in the Kitchen with the Central Governor
New theory off the bat to kick-start regular programming. It’s somewhat of an extension of the Central Governor theory by Tim Noakes which proposes that your brain has a little person inside pulling the strings on what your heart and muscles can output given what the little person knows about how far you’ve been running…
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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…
Fraser Darcy 