Tom's Blog

The Thursday crowd goes from strength to strength. Today was Serg, Ray, Tim, Richard P, Darren Q, David Clark, Chris and myself. Met at Op...

14km around Balls Head with three marathon pace stretches - from the Commodore to Balls Head, along the Luna Park Foreshore and over the Har...

4km warm up + 6km Pain + 1km warmdown = 11km. Prepared myself for a tough session today (despite a broken night's sleep rushing to the h...

Took Saturday and Sunday off - partly because of being away at the Gold Coast but mostly because I was knackered after a tough week followin...

Up on the Gold Coast for the Partners Retreat. Had some time to kill this morning so ran 28km. Set off from the Sheraton Mirage and ran al...

Hill reps in the Botanical Gardens with Ray, Durante, Anthony, Chris from HSBC, Darren Q, his mate Simon, and Pete W. 3 x 5 x 180m hill wit...

Easy 8km run pushing on every now and then either side of an Easy Tiger massage. Which was bloody painful. About 35mins.

4km warm up + 6km Pain + 1km warm down = 11km. Took Pain easy today, suffering from a stiff back after my Razor stack and sore calves. Well...

Very easy 14km recovery run around Balls Head with Mike and Ray. Spent all the time chatting about yesterday's race. 60:11.

This race is fast becoming one of my favourites. All the usual suspects try to turn out, most will be aiming for a good time by tapering whi...

Very easy reverse Manly 8km route. 33:05. Still trying to fight off the onset of a cold. Very lethargic today - either nervous and saving...

Friday 12km amble around Manly. 51:37. Took the day off work after a couple of late nights and deals closing. Felt fantastic after yester...

8km Manly route run early in the morning. Too busy at work and heading up to Brisbane this afternoon so had to run at 6.30am. Made it a qu...

3km warm up + 6km Pain + 2 km warm down for 11km all up. Really good crowd out today with Ray, Serg, Tim, Mike, Tucks, Phil Woods and Anthon...

Intention was to run to work this morning. Woke up feeling knackered, so quickly changed plans for a lunchtime run. Started walking to work ...

Sunday Very easy 18/19 km over lunchtime in about 80:30. North Steyne, North Head (stone arch turn off in 47:00) Fairlight Pool (63 mins) b...

Very easy 14km recovery run home from work. Legs pretty tired and sore after yesterday's massage and interval session. 32:30 at Toyota ...

Just for old times' sake. Thought it appropriate in having to run it 3 times next week for the SMH Half. 5 x 1.2km with 2 minute recov...

14km run home from work with some marathon pace stretches over the bridge, along Military Road and along Sydney Road. Faster pace not as qu...

14km run into work with the usual 3 marathon pace sessions. Tough up Parriwi Road (Spit Junction in 26:12?) meaning the second and third st...