Marathon a go go.

With the official results for the Barossa Half marathon about to be released I can tell you that my official time was 1hr54min20sec, or 8 minutes faster than last year and 173rd out of 266 runners. I suppose one day I would like to be in the top half of finishers, but at the moment [...]

Race Report – Barossa Half Marathon 2009

I wasn’t filled with much confidence of a good time in the lead up to my second Barossa Half Marathon. For some reason I had an overwhelming feeling of failure, or was it lardiness?
Never the less I lined up at the start line at the more civil time of 9am, half heartedly ready to give [...]

Pioneer Women’s Trail Run

  Set on Mother’s Day of all days, the Pioneer Women’s Trail is the trail the Pioneer Women of Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills used to carry their fresh produce to market in Adelaide before any roads were built.
The trail we ran today was not the same as the original trail, but rather [...]

Race Report – Greenbelt HM 2009, 21.1km

The Greenbelt and I have history. It was the first half marathon I ever ran, in 2006, and I have completed it every year since. That first year I struggled through the hail and walked quite a large portion of that last 2k to finish in 2hr11mins. The last two years I have run the [...]

Victor Harbour Trail Run

Saturday morning didn’t start very well as I woke up with a cramp in my left calf. Never a good start. I have a feeling it was rather self induced following a hard run up The Goat Track on Friday morning and two too many amber ales on Friday night. This combination almost inevitably leads [...]