Queenstown Marathon – How I trained
This article is more of a diary reminder for myself on my training for the Queenstown Marathon, hopefully, someone else will also find it useful. While the Marathon isn’t easy,…
Queenstown Marathon – Flat Out Beautiful
Relatively early on November 11th saw me sitting on the veranda of the lovely historic Laurel Bank House just outside Queenstown, drinking coffee, eating my fruit and granola, and contemplating…
One of my favourite races, Griffith Uni Trail Run
Now that we are finally post-Covid events are beginning to fill the calendar again, I had done the Griffith Uni Trail Run a few years ago and loved it. Like…
The start line
First Trail Run Race
I love hiking in beautiful places and running so I decided to try combining them to see if is the perfect mix? Spoiler - it is!
Half Marathon along the foreshore
My favourite Half Marathon – the Wynnum Twilight Bay Run
Half Marathon along the foreshore Last weekend was my favourite Half Marathon, the Twilight Wynnum Bay Run. Why my favourite? It starts in the late afternoon and goes into the…
I made it!
Noosa Marathon is done! My time was 4:17:56 It was definitely hard, but I have done hikes that were much harder on my body. I ran out of sugar during…
Getting ready for Noosa Marathon
Only 5 days until my first Marathon, the Noosa Runaway Marathon. I have done lots of training, enough that everything hurts and I can’t imagine running the distance as I…
Toowoomba 3/4 Marathon
This is the longest run I have done yet, it felt OK - at least until around 30.5 km when the pain seriously begun. 3:08 is not so bad. The…
Perhaps sitting on the couch IS healthier!
The result of running through a carpark after a 17km trail run in the dark... Should have stuck to the bush!
Sydney Half Marathon
Today was the day for the Sydney Half Marathon, even though this was by far my best training I had a lousy race….
The weather was absolutely perfect, could not be better, around 16 degrees and clear. The start was more crowded than I remember and I really couldn’t get my rhythm. The same kept happening for most of the next hour, I always have a dead patch between around 55 and 65 minutes, today was no different. I had to have my first gel at only around 40 minutes!
(more…)