Tag: trail running
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Charing up the hyperdrive
Here we go then, the last blog before this race that I’m focusing on at the moment. These last blogs can be the most annoying to write because the little voice in your head looks into every potential thought bubble as a ‘ooooh say that and you’re putting pressure on yourself‘ or ‘c’mon that sounds…
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You’ve been Thunderstruck
A bit of housekeeping first. Last week’s plug of the blog on my Instagram story garnered several new subscribers (we cracked the 50 mark!). Welcome to those new people but now know that just because I invited you here does not mean I will be pandering to your requests and taming it down on the…
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Weekly Update #6
Another week of the school term goes by and another solid week of running to match it. Getting very much stuck into the monotony that full-time life expects. Gee it’d be nice to have a day off in a Monday-Friday block. using one of my seven sick days is tempting but against the internal values…
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Warburton Trail Festival – 22km Donna Double Race Report
Well well well, things stepped up a notch in the racing department over the weekend. Literally and figuratively. I was encouraged to enter a race in Warburton (Victoria) that might give me a better run for my money than the Adelaide races I’ve entered as of late. The race itself was 22km consisting of about…
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Bringing the heat
Final week of summer and things are looking hot here in The Flinders. It’s now into my eighth week of training in this block and just as the temperature is heating up, so is the intensity of training and racing. Stacking weeks of good solid back-to-back workouts has improved my running ‘form’ (posture), my ability…
