So I’m not signed up to the Cleland Trail Championships after dying at the end of Mt Crawful a few weeks back and then having a bit of a shocker at the Murray Bridge Half last weekend. I figure some time off will be nice to try and recover properly when a well meaning friend, [...]
After ending up a bit fucked up after Mt Crawford last weekend, I was really looking forward to taking a break to rest and recover and, oh look, there’s an adventure race coming up. We have hardly any of these in South Australia and thankfully it wasn’t til Saturday which, by the time I saw [...]
Mt Crawford. Usually such a lovely event. Great course. Nothing too stupid. And I decide to be sensible again and do the medium 16km course even though usually I’d do the 23 or maybe even the 33 but nah, a 16km cruise through the forest seems way more civilised and in line with my current [...]
When I first fucked my ankle a bunch of years ago, I bought a mountain bike thinking that might be my new thing that only required one good leg. I entered a couple of events, but was completely shithouse at it. I entered Adventurethon in WA and when I hit a sand trap at 30km/hr [...]
I sign up for Cobblers Creek and decide to continue my tradition of putting stupid names on my race bib and enter as ‘Assnugget’ and it’s only after I’ve pressed ‘enter’ I think Cock Gobbler would have been more appropriate because… Cobblers Creek and all that. Or maybe I could have gone with Gock Cobbler [...]
After last week’s run up and down Mt Ramarkably Fucking Rocky, I was looking forward to a relatively flat, smooth and straight forward run out at the Fed Ultra. As fucking if. Also, to be clear, I was running the 25 which is most definitely not an ultra, but that’s what it’s called so I’m [...]
In the good old days when I was less fat I used to just sign up for every race I could, but these days I’m much more selective and criteria usually involve things like “where would I like to go to spend a few days?” and “what am I completely unprepared and under trained for?” [...]
Like most of my races lately, I have absolutely no intention of doing the Waite Teams Challenge thing or whatever it’s called because I don’t even know why, I just don’t. And then, about a week out from the event the Race Director, in a master stroke of marketing, announces he has literally zero entries [...]
Fuck. Me. If ever there was a time where I’d quite like to read some news that isn’t about you know fucking what, this is it. So let’s go. We might have some of the world’s most livable cities here in Australia, but around the world we’re apparently also famous for having some of the [...]
I have absolutely zero intention of doing the Tower Trail Run, because I’m pretty sure I fucking hated it last time I did it, so I stupidly sign up a few days before and plan my trip across and down to Mt Gambier. Instead of my trusty Santa Fe, this time I’m taking a brand [...]
