Tom's Blog

There's something about Hickson Road. 5 x 1.2km off 2 minute rest sounds fairly straightforward, but it's run at a constantly uncomf...

Normal flat route at work. It was supposed to be easy but the combination of yesterday's session in my legs and the heat and humidity r...

45 minutes Fartlek - 1 min fast, 30 seconds slow. Sounds a lot easier than 30 x 1min off a 30 second active recovery. You tend to hit a low ...

Just a 1km swim in the Manly Boy Charlton pool. 23:48. Felt pretty tired today, probably due to the lack of swimming as a result of the incr...

26.3km. 2 loops of the 10km route plus to Shelly and back. Took it much easier than last week knowing I was running further. Felt fine until...

Standard flat Manly route. Struggling not to push these steady runs. Probably something to do with feeling as though I need to test myself...

The boys were meeting to do 400s/800s today at Rushcutters Oval and I knew my achilles wouldn't appreciate it so hooked up with Springer...

Achilles more sore than recently this morning, no doubt due to yesterday's efforts. Eased up during day but sensitive again this evenin...

6 x 5mins with 90 seconds rest. Good crowd today with Tucks, Charlie, MC, Michael Harrison, Serg, Anthony, English Andy, Tim C, Durante, Au...

Went out for an easy 10km at lunchtime with Kanser, chatting about all things running, marathon preparations and the meteoric rise of Mike. ...

Got out for my first early morning run since starting training again and aimed to run either 16km or 20km on the flat. Plotted this almost e...

Another 1km in the Manly Boy Charlton pool. 22:33. Proof today that my crawl is now a lot quicker than my breastroke - I was losing about ...

Woke up with the achilles more sore than recently so spent a while stretching it out. Headed out for 10.1km (route shown here on the G-Spot...

Popped out in the late afternoon to the Cook & Phillip for the usual 1km swim. Felt really strong on the crawls today and clocked 23:06 ...

14km run home from work. 30:48 at the Toyota Garage and 58:38 all up. Felt very easy. Was aware of the achilles as usual, particularly on...

Saw Caleb this morning. Suggested some new exercises and a certain pair of shoes. Doesn't think pronation is the problem though, just ov...

Woke up for the first time in 2 months able to walk to the bathroom without hobbling. The ice and increased exercises (added another Yellow...

Saturday 12th Drove to the car park next to the bridge at the end of Queenscliff lagoon and ran to shelly and back. 6.3km in 26:23. 13:25 ...

1km swim in Boy Charlton Botanical Gardens. Achilles feeling good today.

5km route again very easy. 22:04. Achilles the same as Tuesday - felt it in first 2km and then gradually eased throughout run, although ma...