Tag Archives: long distance running

September 19

Omega 3’s, 6’s & 9’s, 1099’s, 1 million and 2.85’s… and a Dog that eats Asparagus

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Following on from an epic metabolic conditioning session involving butt gusting double unders, one arm dumbbell snatches, handstand push ups, sit ups, 600m sprints, decline ab sit ups and bicep curls it was no surprise I was absolutely starving by the time I got home from the gym last night! And in the words of […]

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September 10

Once upon a time…

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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 […]

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March 21

A night at Lark Hill – Part 2

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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 […]

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March 13

A night at Lark Hill – Part 1

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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 […]

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January 14

Stay Puft – The tale of a ghostbusting adventure and neverending sand!

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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 […]

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Respect The Distance

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There’s a little bug that has been niggling at me lately, and everywhere I go at the moment I seem to be finding it. Glorified stories of people running marathons, half marathons and the 12km City to Surf after having undertaken absolutely zero training. No don’t get me wrong, kudos to those who have done it and survived […]

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