I thought today would be a really slow run, given I’d literally just stepped off a 4 hour flight, it was 8 pm, I’d run a half marathon yesterday and have a wheezing cough from the seeds of the horrible sycamore trees in Melbourne. How wrong was I? I ended up running my best distance […]
So today was the surprise half marathon. My wife told me about it 3 days ago. So the only preparation I’ve done for it is this run challenge. Time to see whether the training has paid off. It did. Brilliantly. My first km was my slowest & the only km I did over 8 minutes.
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Really wasn’t feeling it today. Was tough to run. I feel like I’m coming down sick, so we’ll see. Hope not, because tomorrow is the half marathon. Ran 3.91 km in the 30 minutes at an average heart rate of 149 bpm, average pace of 7:39 mins/km. Think I figured out why my Melbourne runs
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So. I’m in Melbourne. Other side of the country, 2,700 km away from home as the crow flies. It was the major surprise organised for my birthday by Cat and contributed to by all my family. I’m also signed up for the Melbourne Half Marathon (which I found out yesterday) and tomorrow I’ll be driving
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Great way to start my 30th year. Today is my birthday and I’m the fittest I’ve ever been. It feels amazing. In the last year I’ve lost 20kg, ran over 700 km, ran my first race as an adult (14 km HBF Run For A Reason) and completed a marathon. Oh and I also got