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…
Somehow we had completely missed that the May Day long weekend was coming and there was an extra day available on the weekend – a great find to make! A…
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…
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…
If you have never been for a drive at Sunflower time it is absolutely worth it, the fields are beautiful.
Recently there has been a viral post making it’s way around FaceBook, a sort of 7 day photography challenge. Eventually someone nominated me - the challenge is to come up…
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…
First day back in the Japanese Alps, it was a pretty serious day with a lot of up in a short time; tomorrow will be far, far worse. My goal is Yarigatake, at 3384m the fifth highest mountain in Japan; often considered one of the best climbs in the Hida Mountains.
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A last minute decision last night and it was off for a paddle first thing this morning with a local meet up group to Garden Island, near Macleay Island just…
Fraser Island is a stunning sand island just off Hervey Bay in Queensland, about 4 hours North of Brisbane. It is the world largest sand island and has no bitumen…
Coochiemudlow (Coochie) is a small island off Victoria Point just South of Brisbane, Queensland. It’s often called the Jewel of Morton Bay, it’s very close to the mainland and has…