Category: Training
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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…
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The Austrian Diaries: #5
Okay now, things are winding down. No more hustle in the morning to get out for a run, got all day for it. Celebratory start to the day with the best sleep stats I’ve had in a while. The European daylight hours still had me up at 5:30am with the sun. It’s good to stay…
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The Austrian Diaries:#4
Easy day today, well, that was the intention at least. Not easy resting sometimes though. Getting out of bed, easy, breakfast, easy, read the paper, easy, run 10km along the course, easy (and felt great knowing where I was going),holding myself back, not easy, strides, fast and easy, immersing myself in Innsbruck via bus’s and…
Fraser Darcy 