Tag: fitness
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Ballarat Marathon
When something big in your life is on the event horizon for so long it builds up in your head and your mind. A bit like the first light before sunrise. Starts out pretty mellow and exciting, oooh boy I hope it has nice colours, then there are the nice colours, then the sun comes…
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Keeping it sensible
It’s two o’clock on a Saturday and the regular blog crowd shuffles in. There’s no one sittin’ next to me… and that’s where the comparisons to Piano Man end. I’ve made a good habit of sitting down on a Saturday afternoon to put together a recap of my week which makes it easy for me…
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Clare Half Marathon
Coming off last week’s 210km’s worth of training I was worried Monday morning’s run was going to be painful. My ankle was still sore even though I had been icing it regularly throughout the day and I was also a little tired, understandably I hope, I mean I did run 210km the week before including…
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In the trenches
Not a good headline to start with but don’t worry, I’m not actually in the trenches in a war. It just feels a bit like the marathon training equivalent of that. Coming off a 218km week where I had hamstring tightness every day it’s probably to be expected. I took a bit longer to get…
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Time to take a breath
The fortnight of racing and cooking myself was over. Time to take a breath and change focus from track and trails to the forty two kilometres of a marathon. On Monday, I woke up feeling not too bad energy wise but my legs were very sore. I deliberated about running along the Sturt River to…
Fraser Darcy 