So, here I stand at the end of a big year..having completed it by running an absolute disaster of a race. Yes my last Ultra for the year saw me finish in my worst time ever and I have to say, it’s left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth. Just last Sunday I was […]
Category Archives: Events
October
08
The 3am Strip Show
posted by Fitmidget
So it was 3:30am and we were all awake bustling around in the tent getting our running gear together. It was only when Karen made the cheeky comment, “Look Jamie’s putting on a show for us” that I realised my amazingly bright camping lantern was casting a full body silhouette on the tent internal walls for all […]
October
04
Dwellingup Drop Bears and Drop Bags
posted by Fitmidget
The good news is I survived the 81km WTF race The bad news is I went off course for around 9km. The best news is that I learnt something amazing about myself, finished what I had intended, and am a stronger person for the experience. So as Julie Andrews would sing “lets start at the very beginning, a […]
September
17
The Electro Stimulation Experiment!
posted by Fitmidget
And so the countdown to the big day has begun! My 50 miler event is in little over a week and the nerves have already started. This weeks training consists of a 10km, 12km and 20km run. And thank god tapering has begun as I feel like I couldn’t be in greater need of the […]
September
10
Once upon a time…
posted by Fitmidget
This a story about a happy ending. Like all good happy endings, it begins with a fairy tale. Except it wasn’t a very pretty fairy tale. It had no magic carpets, genies or fairy dust.,but it did have dirt… lots of it.. and also a little bit of special magic. This is no ordinary magic. It is the type of magic that […]
March
21
A night at Lark Hill – Part 2
posted by Fitmidget
Karen was only allowed a few minutes to stop and sit before she dragged herself back up and out on the trail again. Holy cow I admired her. It took a tremendous amount of guts to sit in that seat and be able to get back up again with functional legs and even partly functional brain. Mentally […]
March
13
A night at Lark Hill – Part 1
posted by Fitmidget
It all started on a road trip out to Cunderdin. My then new running friend Karen had invited me to tag along to participate in an event over the Christmas break and it was then during the car ride that we had got on to talking about our running goals. I had explained that I was determined that 2013 […]
February
24
Bugs = extra protein
posted by Fitmidget
So I am writing post race right now, in fact post the 4th race of the Summer Perth Trail series. (Can’t believe it’s been that long!) This year I have been competing in the long courses rather than with last year where I mixed it up with both short course runs and a long course runs. […]
January
14
Stay Puft – The tale of a ghostbusting adventure and neverending sand!
posted by Fitmidget
Sunday the 13th of January, unlucky number for the superstitious for exciting for me as this was to be the first race of the Perth Trail Summer Series! The Perth Trail series is a collection of 5 short but challenging trail races in the hills surrounding Perth with both Short and Long course options. The short usually range […]
November
29
A Weekend Of Many First’s – Part 4….A race against the clock and the winner is…The Tastiest Milo ever.
posted by Fitmidget
I wanted to be able to say I had finished 12 hours all on my own accord, and by giving her my pack felt like my statement of ‘I Did it!’ would lack credibility. ‘Give it back please, I just can’t let you do it.’ I said. Bernadette, being a psychologist, later pointed out that […]
November
27
A Weekend of Many Firsts – Part 3 – Dung, Disorientation & Dirty Dancing.
posted by Fitmidget
Ahead of us was the thickest nastiest bush we had been through yet. The land was uneven and the bushes seemed to be taller and for me – all-consuming. It was at this point that the stinging of the scratches on my legs became intolerable and the temperature was dropping so I decided to get changed into […]
A Weekend of Many Firsts – Part 2 – Spurs, sandwiches and hallucinations.
posted by Fitmidget
After not initially knowing anything about rogaining, I had consulted the oracle (google) and learnt that rogaining was done in teams of 2-5 and involved navigating your way through a mapped area, cross-country and bushland to collect as many ‘controls’ as possible. I was soon to also learn that these controls would be worth different point values […]
November
07
A Weekend of many firsts – Part 1
posted by Fitmidget
So it was to be my last event for the year, and I’d chosen to go on a 12 hour Rogaine with a world class ultra runner, and a world class rogainer. What on earth had I gotten myself into! I left home at 2:30pm and my teammate Bernadette and I arrived in Nannup around three hours later and […]
The most fear I’ve ever had about frolicking in lavender fields
posted by Fitmidget
Somewhere between then and now, I asked myself how it happened exactly. Perhaps caught up in a wave of desperation and enthusiasm to search for a event to take part in this weekend to replace my cancelled trail running weekend I now find myself excited and anxious to be participating in a 12 hour rogaining event in Nannup. Being […]
Down & Dirty – Part 1
posted by Fitmidget
11am Sunday the 19th of August and here I was bunching everyone together for the classic ’before’ photo. “Dammit I forgot to brush my teeth” I said to Dean who was next to me. “Don’t worry, they’ll be covered in mud soon” he re-assured me. The event in question was the […]
Down & Dirty – Part 2
posted by Fitmidget
I gulped as we stood waiting as the breadth of what we were about to do sunk in. The whole team stood watching other participants holding onto a short rope, propping one leg up and leaning their whole bodyweight backwards to climb up a flat slippery wall angled at what looked like 45 degrees […]
Bananas, Bikinis, and 6 inch high heels – INBA Natural Physique Titles 13th Oct 2007 PT 1
posted by Fitmidget
PT 1. Morning Preparation It was a 5am start with 3 herbal diuretics, a breakfast of dry oats mixed with a thick protein paste, and a tar like syrup made of 2 teaspoons of dry black coffee and only 100ml of water. Yum Yum! Next was stage makeup and hair. Using hemorrhoids cream under my eyes […]
Bananas, Bikinis, and 6 inch high heels – INBA Natural Physique Titles 13th Oct 2007 PT 2
posted by Fitmidget
PT 2. The Big Finale We left the comp with a bit of a scrape as my car pulled off the lawn and unavoidably down the curb. Nevertheless, we tootled off glad to make it home in time for lunch. The contentment soon turned to worry when above the radio came a loud, hollow sort […]
Sunnies, Skins and Skirts @ The City To Surf Expo – 25th Aug 2012
posted by Fitmidget
After a busy day fighting my way through the supermarket buying my goodies for the evenings cooking adventure (please see post on Roasted pumpkin chicken and spinach risotto) I also managed a stop in at the City to Surf Expo held at the Perth Convention Centre on Saturday. Arriving at the expo I was surprised […]
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