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Wednesday, 22 October 2014
Run #5. 2kms Monday 20/10/14
Back at it with average pace of 8:33/km on tired legs from Sunday's long of 3km.
Sunday, 19 October 2014
VISIT TO DUNGOG for the DUNGOG DASH AND DAWDLE- where we got our team name
So the first weekend in August was quite special. 7 of us made our way to country NSW for the Dungog Dash and Dawdle. Home of our team name. Home of our Team King and Queen.
What a fabulous place.
I got to spend one of the most wonderful weekends with some of the people who have truly enriched my life.
The course was tough and uphill and I ended up walking most if it with Maria who came back to find me.
We all got a medal.
It was a great morning.
Followed by the SackRace which I won.
We were treated to the most amazing hospitality from Jane and Stephen, with a celebratory dinner on Saturday night at the farm with Golden Syrup Dumplings cooked by Danny Norris (CEO of Dungog Sack Racing committee).
Photo #1 Main Creek: Me, Anthea, Jane and Maria
Photo #2 The Dashers
Photo #3 Me post run, middle of the main street of Dungog
What a fabulous place.
I got to spend one of the most wonderful weekends with some of the people who have truly enriched my life.
The course was tough and uphill and I ended up walking most if it with Maria who came back to find me.
We all got a medal.
It was a great morning.
Followed by the SackRace which I won.
We were treated to the most amazing hospitality from Jane and Stephen, with a celebratory dinner on Saturday night at the farm with Golden Syrup Dumplings cooked by Danny Norris (CEO of Dungog Sack Racing committee).
Photo #1 Main Creek: Me, Anthea, Jane and Maria
Photo #2 The Dashers
Photo #3 Me post run, middle of the main street of Dungog
Photo #4 Anthea and I with the winning sack
Photo #5 Outside Stephen's gallery, with our NY medals.
Photo #6 The sack racing track
Photo #5 Outside Stephen's gallery, with our NY medals.
Photo #6 The sack racing track
Run #4 Sunday Long Run- 3km - 19 October
You know you are right back at the beginning when your long run is only 3 kms is at 8:24 pace and almost knocks you off your perch. Add 2kms that and I've got Dash to the Finish distance.
Sunday Long run done
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Sunday Long run done
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Run #3 1.5 kms - 14 October
A whole minute faster over the same distance done 2 days ago.
Lungs totally burning.
But happy with that.
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Lungs totally burning.
But happy with that.
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Run #2 1.5km 12 October
And here we are with Run #2 up to a massive 1.5km
Still a Respectable time and pace.
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Still a Respectable time and pace.
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Comeback #3 Run #1- 1 km 8 October
And here we go again, starting at the bottom with a 1 km time trial.
Respectable time, just add 4 km to that and we have a Dash to the Finish distance :)
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Respectable time, just add 4 km to that and we have a Dash to the Finish distance :)
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2014- The year that wasn't
So nearly a year on, I am preparing to head back to NYC for marathon weekend. Not to run, but to volunteer.
I have had injury and illness that has allowed me 3 comebacks. Currently in the throws of the 3rd and getting some kms under the belt just to be able to do Dash to the Finish on Marathon Eve without passing out.
Since the Barossa, I have run some respectable training runs as well as the Adelaide Running Festival 10k which if it wasn't for an extra km, added on I would have finished in a respectable time despite crippling cramps a few hundred metres from the end due to lack of mid race fuel.
I did miss my beloved City to Bay this year due to illness. Nearly 8 weeks of chest infection knocked me ou. I still got away with 2 weeks of running in the middle and getting up to 11 kms which was the longest I had done since NYC last Nov.
So now, we begin again. With a goal in sight, the NYC Half in March 2015, the training begins again.
But before it begins in earnest, it is back to The Big Apple for what is billed to be the biggest reunion of the Dungog Dashers.
Looking forward to seeing all the usual suspects, of which there are too many to mention.
There is a second picnic, a trip to Philly, to run the Rocky Steps with Walt and Zrinka, Motley Crue, Dr Oz and Dinner with Linda's Running Club, the NY Flyers with none other than K Switzer as the Guest speaker.
The big day, Marathon Sunday, will be spent at Mile 18, volunteering in the morning and cheering in the afternoon with my beloved Dashers.
As I write this, it is 7 sleeps to go.
I've got 4 days of work and a Rolling Stones show to go before I get on the big jet plane.
I'm horrendously unfit. I've lost my marathon fitness now twice and I know that pain it is going to take to even get half marathon fit.
Goals are set now, bib is paid for. Here we go.
I have had injury and illness that has allowed me 3 comebacks. Currently in the throws of the 3rd and getting some kms under the belt just to be able to do Dash to the Finish on Marathon Eve without passing out.
Since the Barossa, I have run some respectable training runs as well as the Adelaide Running Festival 10k which if it wasn't for an extra km, added on I would have finished in a respectable time despite crippling cramps a few hundred metres from the end due to lack of mid race fuel.
I did miss my beloved City to Bay this year due to illness. Nearly 8 weeks of chest infection knocked me ou. I still got away with 2 weeks of running in the middle and getting up to 11 kms which was the longest I had done since NYC last Nov.
So now, we begin again. With a goal in sight, the NYC Half in March 2015, the training begins again.
But before it begins in earnest, it is back to The Big Apple for what is billed to be the biggest reunion of the Dungog Dashers.
Looking forward to seeing all the usual suspects, of which there are too many to mention.
There is a second picnic, a trip to Philly, to run the Rocky Steps with Walt and Zrinka, Motley Crue, Dr Oz and Dinner with Linda's Running Club, the NY Flyers with none other than K Switzer as the Guest speaker.
The big day, Marathon Sunday, will be spent at Mile 18, volunteering in the morning and cheering in the afternoon with my beloved Dashers.
As I write this, it is 7 sleeps to go.
I've got 4 days of work and a Rolling Stones show to go before I get on the big jet plane.
I'm horrendously unfit. I've lost my marathon fitness now twice and I know that pain it is going to take to even get half marathon fit.
Goals are set now, bib is paid for. Here we go.
Sunday, 25 May 2014
Barossa Marathon Festival 5km
No running for 3 weeks due to being in Tassie. Crap excuse but back to run the 5 in the Barossa. Back to the out and back course this year.
A big tough but finished- and not much worse than Greenbelt.
Sunday, 4 May 2014
Bruising from Ruptured Plantar Fascia.
First pic is taken 1-2 days before second. 
This was about 5 days after I did this.
Knife Hands Sprints #3- where it all went wrong
Once again- writing retrospectively.
Headed for boot camp and my new found love of barefoot sprint intervals in the park.
Hotties all around training. Came around the bend for my second last sprint. Half way down felt my something go horribly wrong on bottom of foot. Knew that next step something would happen. And it did- you could have heard it on the moon. Snapped my plantar fascia.
End of session and end of barefoot running in the park. I had just gotten quite fit. This was going to reverse all my work.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/461890947
Knife Hand Sprints #2
Retrospectively written again.
Sprint session #2.
Lovely morning at the park.
Fastest mile.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/455830418
Knife Hands Sprints #1
I write this retrospectively. I decided to try running in bare feet on the grass before boot camp. It felt amazing and I really got some speed.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/454475906
Sunday, 5 January 2014
05/01 - Morning Beach Walk
Quick 4 Kms before cricket starts today.
Not fast but just some Kms to go towards Run Down Under.
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