Category: Trip Reports
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The Australian Athletics Championships
To reflect on it in the usual manner of a blog recap, stepping through my training for the week and other activities I think would involve a lot of unnecessary faff and effort for what most people who read this blog want. One of the main reasons I write the blog is so that in…
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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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Still not there yet
It’s over three weeks since I first reported my ankle concerns to a medical practitioner. Last week I hoped that I would be back to normal-ish running loads and would be able to race on the Thursday and Friday. I did that. Woo hoo. But now I’m back to where I was a week ago.…
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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…
Fraser Darcy 