On the weekend I ran the half marathon at the Flying Brick (Cider) Bellarine Sunset Run. It was my 21st half marathon. I think there were almost 900 people at this event in all. 369 runners and walkers for the half alone. I spotted Australian cycling royalty Cadel Evans collecting his runner’s bib which got […]
Category: Sporting
The Achilles Heel of growing old
At my social old guys basketball game this evening, unfortunately a guy looks to have torn his Achilles Heel. Thinking about the unnatural contour of the tendon I saw up close still makes me a little squeamish. It was particularly disappointing as the guy joined tonight for the first time. He had hesitated to join, […]
Parkrun fun
I ran another Parkrun this morning, my 40th. It’s not quite a notifiable milestone, but finally getting close. Being part of the local Parkrun community has been more fun than I imagined. I’ve quite enjoyed seeing the same faces, and experiencing the camaraderie and often some banter. There are always a couple of funny moments. […]
Surf Coast Trail Marathon 2022
In terms of number of marathons I’ve run, this was to be my “Unlucky for some” race. So I left nothing to chance. I completed a pretty diligent 16 weeks of training, running 705.4kms in total. An added bonus was most of my training was on the Surf Coast Trail Marathon course, known as the […]
My Melbourne Marathon, 2019
Repatriating to Australia at the end of 2018, and into a new state for us in Victoria, it opened up a wonderful opportunity to run new marathons. I set my sights first on my capital city’s major road race, the Nike Melbourne Marathon. (For anyone counting, this would be number 11) This race had been […]
Far more than running 10 marathons
I’ve always run. When I was young, my Mum and I used to do laps of the local rugby league field – dropping pebbles to count our laps. Through high school and university I ran a few times each week to keep fit. I continued even in the workforce. And this is when my running […]
State Of Origin competition now Coke vs Pepsi
Another RAK half marathon – 2017
Yesterday the RAK half marathon impressively lived up to being the world’s fastest half marathon. Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya set a new world record for the women’s half marathon, in 65:06. I heard she was hunched over after the finish looking like she was about to vomit. No history books will mention that. The weather conditions […]
2017 Dubai Marathon
Yesterday morning I lined up to participate (not compete) in yet another Dubai Marathon .. This year’s event had extra interest with a confident Kenenisa Bekele declaring he was going to break the world record. On top of the glory of owning the world record, there was a nice $250,000 reward on offer for bettering the mark […]
Yet another Striders half – 09 Dec 2016
Yesterday I ran my seventh straight Johnson Arabia Dubai Creek Striders Half Marathon. It’s clearly a race I don’t want to miss. Every year the event gets bigger and better. As I began running with the large community of Dubai runners I wondered, what colour would you need to wear these days to stand out? Fluororescent […]