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 [...]
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 [...]
The only thing worse than no-one reading the shit you write, is finally writing something quite a few people read, and then having to write something after that, knowing it’s gonna be a steaming pile of shit by comparison. Although you’ll have to wait way too many words to see the actual steaming pile of [...]
So the day before I head over to Kangaroo Island for the Marathon, I managed to drop my wallet in the supermarket, double back, and by some miracle of human nature, someone’s handed it in. I don’t take this as a sign not to go or that the marathon is going to go tits up. [...]
I can be a bit dramatic at times, so if you're wondering why I can be sooking about having a fucked up ankle one minute, then running a marathon the next, it'd be a fair question. The 100% honest truth is I DO have a fucked up ankle - ligament damage, joint damage, fracture etc. [...]
A few days ago one of my Insta buddies asked me how they could get into trail running and I thought, well that’d make a good topic for a blog. So here we are. My best advice on how to get into trail running. Tip one: Go find a trail. Run on it. Hey presto, [...]
Every year for the last however many years I decide running a half marathon at 6am on Christmas morning is a good idea and every year when I get up at 4am to get ready I think what. the actual. fuck? I promise myself I won't be so stupid to do it again the following [...]
After my last few races I've done little race reports to keep you mildly entertained and give you some insights into the wonderful world of running, and when I decided to do the 6hr Uni Loop event yesterday I figured it would be another good opportunity to do that, but as usual, I was pretty [...]
