Tom's Blog

Session was 14 x 3mins off 60s but I pulled out after 6. Not sure what the matter was - completely bereft of energy and was puffing and whe...

Yesterday I showed up at Centennial Park at 6.45am to find our usual meeting place roped off by police due to the murder of a 37yr old. htt...

Caught up with Sean's squad for 8km hard followed by 10 hills. Lots of wind today which, given we run a figure of 8 circuit, helped in ...

Just an easy 6km today but ran it quite quick going through 5km in 20:09 before easing down to jog up the hill.

She's a big lass! And a bonny lass! And she loves her beer! And they call her Cushy Butterfield, and I wish she was here! Another run ho...

Adductor was feeling better and had a massage with the Tiger so tested a run by running home. Where the adductor previously was sore was fi...

Very easy 6km run around the Botanical Gardens. Feeling strong again but the adductor/groin problem was bad. I number of other muscles in th...

First hill session in almost a year. Wasn't worried about the achilles but more about the adductor. Was fine during the session though. ...

Rotten cold yesterday. I was the world's grumpiest man. Better today but still coughing up a load of bad stuff (which almost hurts my ...

Yesterday's run buggered my legs up. Felt like someone took a hammer to them overnight. Not helped by general stiffness due to the strea...

If I'm being honest, I haven't enjoyed the long Sunday run for about a year. Injury worries seem to be exacerbated when running slo...

Saturday Joined up with Sean's squad for what I thought was 6km hard. Turned out it was 8km hard followed by 10 100m hills. Watched ever...

Easy 10km with Clyde and Sam (44:20). Had intended to run 14km but adductor was starting to get a bit sore. Stretched it out thoroughly an...

Blogger seems to know it's my birthday - there was a cake with a candle on it integrated into the Blogger symbol when I logged in. Big B...

Cut short my long run after 5km yesterday with a very sore adductor longis. It's been plaguing me all week but I'd started to run w...

Headed over to Centennial Park for 4 x 2km off a rolling 9 minutes. Plenty of guys there I knew including CT, Big Mikey H, Dimitry, Ben, Jim...

Scheduled run was 6km easy with the 90% strides so turned up for Mona Fartlek with the HuRT Squad and hung around the back until the final f...

Haven't even been aware of the achilles over the past two days so plucked up the confidence to run the hilly route home today. The deci...

Today (Tuesday) was 6.5km hard on a route starting at the stone gates opposite St Mary's, down to the Opera House, around and back. We h...

Very easy 5km around the Bot Gardens and Opera House. Bumped into Gerry along the way then Andy and ran with them. Achilles was sore to st...