Tag: reflection
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The COLD of Winter
We pick up where we left off in blog-land. I’d just had a week ‘off’ where I ran 160km’s without the mental focus of training for anything in particular. This present week was about switching back ‘on’ and training for something in particular, albeit still very far off in the distance. That meant I could…
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Back to my roots?
It’s week three of North Brighton life but it feels like week five. That’s probably a good thing. I’m settled, Alice is settled and my running is going well. Essendon could be going better but they don’t live in North Brighton so that checks out. Something I realised this week about my new habitat is…
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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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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…
Fraser Darcy 