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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
2016 goals smashed – just. Kind of.
In 2016 I again tried to make continual progress over 12 months in a couple of personal areas I find important: Running 1200kms, and Reading 12 books. Both of these numbers neatly ensure each and every month I keep running and reading. Or, so I hoped. In reality, it’s never that simple for me. My 2015 goals became a […]
2016 Australian Holidays – from the archives
Quite a surprise to find I had blogged while on holidays back in 2016, but hadn’t published at the time. Actually uploaded two years later on 24/08/2018. Better late than never. 30/06/2016 – Let the holiday begin This was the day we were to fly to Brisbane to begin our “Summer Holiday” in Australia’s Winter. […]
Dubai Marathon 2015 – Ouch
My new employer is big into health & wellness. I was caught up in the emotion and nominated with the team to run the full marathon, my third Dubai marathon in four years. This is a blog about a marathon I ran. So I should start with all the excuses from the outset. I hadn’t […]
Runner knits his way into record book
via Runner in KC Marathon knits his way into record book – KansasCity.com. I heard about this strange but true story on the morning radio. A guy has run a complete 42.2km marathon, while knitting a 12 foot scarf. When I came home I just had to see if there was an accompanying photo that […]
Marathon PB at Dubai Marathon, 27 January 2012
Yesterday at the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon I crushed my running goal of 3:30. I crossed the line in a net result of 3:23.32 – which I’m very happy with. The time’s 15 minutes faster than my former best, in 2007; and 35 mins better than my last marathon just over 2 years ago. I’m […]
These shoes are made for running
In my 33 years on this planet I’ve run two marathons. My first was at Gold Coast in 2007, my second was in Berlin, Germany last year. This has led some of my colleagues to be misinformed into thinking I’m a marathon-er. A marathon-er runs constantly through the year, running marathons whenever it takes their fancy. […]