2017 Australia Day Ultra Marathon Ultra #6 Saturday, 21 January 2017 It’s been about ten months since this event and I’m just writing the run report now. Why? Because I have just signed up for the 2018 edition and realise that I never wrote about the first time I ever ran 100km. Time has dulled […]
Tag: marathon
Only quitters quit
2016 Six Inch Trail Marathon Marathon #17 Sunday, 18 December 2016 I don’t know exactly what it was about this year’s event but there seemed to be less intensity or excitement in the build up to the day. In previous years, runners have been training hard for this event, it’s the culmination of a running-year. […]
Master of none
2016 World Masters Athletics Championships Marathon Marathon #16 Sunday 06 November 2016 I never intended to run this event, but Tracy convinced me to sign up by asking, “When will you ever get the opportunity to represent your country by running in your home city?” This made too much sense at the time, so I […]
Just a walk in the park
Perth City2Surf Marathon 2016 Marathon #15 Sunday 28 August 2016 At this event last year, I ran with Richard Back and scored a massive PB (which was bettered a couple of months ago at the 2016 WAMC Perth Marathon) so this year I decided to pace others and see if I could someone else achieve […]
Closer to Catastrophe
WAMC Perth Marathon 2016 Marathon #14 Sunday 12 June 2016 I looked back through some personal history to remember this event in 2013 was my first ever marathon, and that I’ve done it two more times since that first effort. I was shitting myself then, but running a marathon now has become a bit more […]
Pounding the pavement
WAMC Perth Marathon 2015 Marathon #10 Sunday 14 June 2015 A few weeks ago, I ran the HBF Run for a Reason Half Marathon and despite not feeling well I ran a PB! I finished in less than 100 minutes, I’m finally into double digits. That run didn’t feel like it took too much out […]
The last gasp.
Endurancelife CTS Exmoor Marathon #9 Saturday 11 April 2015 This will probably be my last Endurancelife CTS event… for now. We’re heading back to Australia on Monday 04 May and there just isn’t time to squeeze in CTS Pembrokeshire on the Saturday before departing. The CTS events have been a real eye-opener for me; they’re […]
Play another day…
Endurancelife CTS South Devon Marathon #9 (DNF #1) Saturday 07 February 2015 Time had flown by since the shoe-destroying trail marathon in Anglesey. The Altras were only a couple of months old and had only completed 440km so I sent emails to the company in the US and their distributor in the UK. They said […]
What’s in a name?
“An ultramarathon, also called ultra distance, is any sporting event involving running and walking longer than the traditional marathon length of 42.195 kilometres (26.219 mi).”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarathon In theory, if I ran just a millimetre further than 42.195km then I would have run an ultra. This idea doesn’t sit well with me, nor a lot of “true” […]
WTF is sleet?
Endurancelife CTS Anglesey Marathon #8 Saturday 17 January 2015 I’ve had a pretty good recovery in the nearly four weeks since the last marathon; plenty of time to warm up and get over my Portsmouth hypothermia. Xmas and New Year were quiet but I haven’t done a lot of training as Tracy has been having […]