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. [...]
Decided to sneak in a bit of a bird nerd yesterday in between work stuff. So did a meeting in the morning then headed out north. There'd been a reported sighting of a White Bellied Sea Eagle so went chasing wild gooses. Went to a part of the International Bird Sanctuary, and if ever you [...]
So we all know how completely messed up the Aussie bushfires are. Lives and property lost, environment decimated, animals and potentially entire species gone forever. We're all doing what we can in our own way, at whatever level we can. I know we're all being bombarded with fundraisers left, right and centre and there's only [...]
It's spring and we all know what that means... ducklings! And fuck yeah! I live right near a river, so I get to see the ducks most days, and right now, there are baby ducklings everywhere. So if you're looking for something to do, find your local river or pond or lake or stream where [...]
