Category: Trip Reports
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Things are coming along nicely
The plan from last week’s blog was to continue another 180+km’s for the week and run a 10km race. Tick and tick. Things are coming along nicely. The end. What else do you want to know? What else do you expect? Wait, you can’t answer these questions, this is a one-way conversation so I guess…
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5000m on the track
Before we get into the race and reflection on the previous six weeks of training I’m going to tell you a little story about a climb called Fingernickin so excuse the waffle if you just want the good stuff and skip to here instead. Up at Moonarie, the almighty cathedral of climbing in SA in…
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What I learnt at PASS
At schools teachers do the teaching and students do the learning. So you think. That’s a narrow minded view. In a well functioning society the baker buys the flour, makes the bread, sells it and pays for a holiday to Europe with the money. They don’t just bake the bread. There’s give and take essentially.…
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Kosci50 – Report
Where to start, where to start… big week last week. Culmination of 8 or so weeks on the grind looking towards the Kosci50. I’m happy to report that it was a successful trip. The end. ‘Oi, quit wasting my time trying to be funny and tell me how it really went‘. Fine, fine, but if…
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Redemption on the SSSFFF
Rusted on blog readers will be aware of the Self-Supported-Southern-Flinders-Fastpacking-Frenzy (SSSFFF) from around this time last year (a month earlier than this time last year to be exact). If you don’t have fraserdarcy.com running through your veins, short story is Chad and I went on a big walk from the northern end of the Heysen…
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