Category: Trip Reports
-
Barossa Half Marathon: Doing It With Style
Pre-Race: If I mentioned climbing and running on this blog it would not be the first time. You’d even be forgiven for rolling your eyes, not another f****** climbing reference. But dear reader, this week’s revelation is a new climbing metaphor. Often I think about having to try hard, like really hard, in climbing to…
-
Back in Business… I think
This blog comes to you the day two days after I raced the Salisbury Run Half Marathon. I entered the race sometime last week after I finished off my Tuesday session of 6*1km with paces that encouraged me to think I was back in business. The fact I was able to run a few sub…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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.…
Fraser Darcy 