Tom's Blog

Not the best of preparations for this. Eventually set off in the car with Dad at 6.40pm and realised that if I wanted to jog 3km to start wi...

Very easy 8km around the city - through Hyde Park, past 3 Wise Monkeys and through Darling Harbour and Hickson Road. 32:25. Lovely run in...

Wednesday What a difference a rest day makes. 14km run to work. Felt sore around both achilles to start with but gradually eased my way in...

14km run to work. Extremely tired after yesterday's run - it was a real slog the whole way. 29 minutes at Spit Junction and 61:03 all ...

Long Sunday route - 23km. Amazing what a difference the cooler temperatures makes. Headed out at around 2pm when the temperature was about 1...

Headed out at around 4pm in between dropping off and picking Bec up from a party. Still just under 30c, but with low humidity not half as ba...

Rested Wednesday and Thursday due to too much work and too little sleep. Ran into work this morning. Still suffering from fatigue but a bea...

3km warm up jog + 6km Pain + 1km warm down. 10km all up. Pushed Pain hard today. 24:11 all up but a 1:56 on the 709m rep chasing down a ne...

12km lunchtime run with Beaky. Very steady recovery run in about 52:30. Talking pace all the way. Woke up very tired after a disrupted ni...

Long Manly Sunday run route. 23km in 1:37:28, at the stone arch in 47:15. Nice and cool conditions, felt comfortable the whole way.

Left it until the humidity broke and the heavens opened to go for today's run. Felt good at the start so turned it into a tempo run over...

14km run home from work. 30:35 at the Toyota Garage and 57:29 all up. Hot and humid, struggled on the hills again. Toyed with the idea of...

Back to Hickson Road - 5 x 1.17km (now measured on G-Map Pedometer) with 2 minute rest. Good crowd today with a first appearance of Kanser g...

14km run to work. 27:15 at Spit Junction and 57:19 all up. Started out feeling quite fresh which explains the quicker than normal time. S...

3km jog + 6km Pain + 1km jog = 10km. Didn't push it at Pain today - hung off the back of group 1 (led by Scott again in 24 minutes) with...

I was still queueing for the toilets when the first wave gun fired, so had a very nervous 5 minutes before our wave was to go. Just managed...

Plan was to run home but spoke to Beaky in the afternoon and planned a session he described as "2kms at marathon pace, jog, another 2km...

4km jog then 6km Pain then 1km warmdown: 11km. We let Scott and one other go ahead for Pain and ran it ourselves more sensibly. Didn't...

23km North Head and Balgowlah Heights route. Ran in the midday sun on a very hot (31C) and humid day. Legs were rolling over fine to start...

9th place in 34:31. Not sure why the time was so slow - no wind but it was very humid. My vest and shorts were drenched in sweat at the end....