Tom's Blog

Easy 14km around Balls Head with Kanser, Richard P, Ray and Mike Conway(?) who might be joining our Thursday group soon.

28km over Spit Junction, North Head long route. Just churned the legs over after yesterday's race and a couple of bottles of decent red ...

Fantastic event. Forgotten how much I enjoy cross-country - must be 14 years since I've done one. Especially nice fast one's with no...

Easy 14km jog to work early in the morning. 28:40 at Spit Junction, 61:30 all up after meeting a Strider, Steve Urwin, in Neutral Bay and ru...

Hills in the Domain. 3 x 5 x 185m hill. Jog downhill between each one and 1km jog between each set. About 33-34 seconds each. Good crowd...

Wednesday 12km in the late afternoon. North Head via North Steyne cutting out Shelley Beach and Fairfax track and back the same way. About...

Monday 10km along the cycle paths of Dubbo with a couple of marathon pace stretches. Sunday Rest. Saturday Brisk 9km along the cycle paths o...

Met up earlier than usual with Richard P, Kanser, Durante, Chris and one of Durante's workmates for a 2 x 3km lactic threshold session a...

14km run into work. Marathon pace stretches up Parriwi Road (always a killer), along Military Road (managed to reach Neutral Bay this time) ...

The usual 3.5km jog, 6km Pain then 1km warmdown for 10km all up. I led Pain today as Scott had gone AWOL which I think was a relief for ever...

15km around Balls Head. Longer start and finish than normal due to meeting up with Richard P, Kanser and Kanser's mate, Anthony. Nice ...

Added some today after missing yesterday's run. Basically ran the normal long Sunday run in reverse but instead of turning off at Tania...

13km Balls Head Reserve loop as a tempo run. Attacked it right from the start, putting particular effort into the hills. 23:10 at Balls He...

The usual 5x1.2km reps with 2 minute rests although the rests were quite generous. Just the select crowd of Ray, Kanser, Richard Palmer and ...

13km Balls Head Reserve loop at lunchtime in glorious weather. Took it very easy but with two "marathon pace" stretches - one fro...

3km jog plus Pain plus 1km warmdown. 10km all up. Pain in 24:45. Long rep in 2:00. Felt pretty tired after yesterday's long run. Sti...

Long Manly route: 23km in 1:37:44. 46:45 at the Stone Arch and 1:02:30 at Fairlight Pool. Very heavy legged in the second half. Met the ...

Very easy 8km Manly Route late afternoon. 32:29.

5th in 34:11. Very cool and wet with a blustery southerly wind. Very narrow start for a Striders race so a mad dash in the first 100m befor...

Hill Reps with Ray and Peter. We've decided to start alternating Hickson Road reps with hill reps for a bit of variety. 15 x 200m up ...