Tom's Blog

Should have done speedwork which is what I'm lacking, but when your eldest daughter is running her zone Cross Country then priorities li...

Usual route, usual jog. Feeling very tired today (particularly after a tough session with Carl this morning) and was solo until Centennial ...

Sneaked out for this with heavy legs. Not good with our intrepid leader Conway upping stumps with the hammie problems again and threatening...

Made up for Slovenly Sunday with Masochistic Monday. 19km around Manly and then picked up the rucksack and ran to work. 32km all up in 2:2...

10km jog in the darkness in the early evening. Rolled my ankle but its ok. Nice moonrise.

Just the same old route. Always ahead today, although the Garmin measured it longer than normal so I can't really compare km splits. G...

Well, all hell broke loose this morning when one of my key clients sends an email explaining that a member of his team was very upset at bei...

Given it was teeming with rain, I made the call to shift to Farm Cove knowing it would be deserted (and having G-Mapped the distance from th...

Strength with Carl this morning. New regime, lots on the hammies. Was walking like Elvis afterwards. 19km at lunch just avoiding the rai...

Monday Rest Tuesday HuRTS Fartlek with the plan just to take it easy. Everyone else (Fats, Andy, Ray, Smolly, Muz(!) etc.) had the sa...

Went into this race feeling pretty confident after some recent consistent training and generally being a bit more healthy than my usual deba...

6km jog with a few strides. Great result by Benny last night - 13:18 for 5000m in the States finishing 3rd behind Mo and Dathan Ritzenheim...

13km very easy with Ray. Wandered over to the SMH route in Pyrmont. Still can't tell what extra fiddly bit they are making us do aroun...

Small but merry band not shying away from a bit of speedwork. Ray, Andy, French dude, Durante, John Doe and a couple of others. Left hammi...

Strength this morning with Carl. Busy all day so couldn't get out. Ran home untimed nice and easy with a few strides. Ooh, nearly fo...

Something old and something new. Joined today by Muz for the first time in years now he's resettled back in Oz. Durante was also out....

Usual route but Opera House was blocked off so only 14.3km. Very easy, but did some fast strides (3 x 80m) to finish off. Feel fine durin...

Same as last week with Macca and Justin. 33km in 2:28:31 (4:30's). We were at exactly the same pace as last week until Cromer when J...

Felt rotten this morning but well enough to get out this afternoon so decided to punish myself with the hilly tempo. Plan was not to race i...

13km easy in about 57mins (4:26's). Then on to drink too much at the Striders dinners and ask Lisa Weightman inappropriate questions (...