Tag: Training
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Changing of the seasons
Mid-April isn’t a season change by most people’s definitions but in the world of fraserdarcy.com it is. Pool season ended for me a week ago, I took a ‘holiday’ down to Adelaide last week starting with the Clare 10k and then wrapped it up with the Australian Athletics Championships. The holiday in Adelaide is over…
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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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Two steps forward, one step back
I finished off last week’s post hoping to report on more running than rest days in my subsequent update. Well, to not leave you hanging, I can confirm that I did that. I ran on Friday, Saturday (twice!), Sunday (twice again!), Monday (twice again again!). But it’s now Wednesday. What happened to Tuesday? Oh wait…
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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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