Sun, 09 Sep 2012 01:11:07 +0000 info@coolrunning.com.au (CoolRunning Forums) IP.Blog 60 As I re-grouped after my M7 Marathon, I started to contemplate doing another one. But first I needed to ask the question, why ....


Deep inside each of us, there is a small Olympian struggling to get out, perhaps...]]> Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:41:00 +0000
And marathoners, well.....................then I became one.

As for bush runners, scarpering up hill and dale........yep, that's now me.....!

After enrolling for Glenbrook Marathon, Six Foot Track Marathon and Mt Solitary Ultra, all cancelled a day or two prior due to heavy rains and course...]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 04:18:00 +0000
Identify the recurrent injury problem, and sort it out.
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Establish new and better running pattern to avoid injury relapse
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Work on strength
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Work on endurance
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Re-discover the joy of running injury free!
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Don't focus on racing until...]]> Mon, 07 May 2012 09:35:00 +0000
To quote Robbie Burns "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men /...]]> Tue, 02 Aug 2011 05:43:00 +0000
Flailing about trying to put the pieces back together, I hoped I might be able to rescure something and still front up next week. But there was...]]> Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:11:00 +0000
I got to the start line intact on Saturday allright.

For the first time since perhaps the same 10 km race last year, I was feeling to be back on...]]> Thu, 09 Jun 2011 02:52:00 +0000
But I was quietly more excited at breaking 40 on Saturday than i recall feeling when I first broke it at Lane Cove in 2009.

And that run was just before my very unevenly paced marathon PB of 3:14:12 in Canberra.

Finally I am also coming out of my races feeling clear of injury...]]> Mon, 30 May 2011 03:51:00 +0000
Three things:

Alans massage on Tuesday before followed by
Chiropractics session on Friday.
And the half marathon run.

All good.

The pacing was not perfect in the half but not bad, and i am learning. Good to have stuck with a plan with no heroic...]]> Tue, 24 May 2011 06:19:00 +0000 With a history of adopting aggressive targets, pushing the boundaries, then burning and crashing in a ball of flames, my recent spate of injuries finally gave me pause for thought.

Maybe my 47 year old body has something it is trying to tell me about my approach to races...?

So since my debacle at W2B last year, two months making the injury worse,...]]> Mon, 16 May 2011 05:26:00 +0000
The potential for ill effect particularly with my tempo running is still dominating my thinking, and tempering my confidence. I feel I still haven't got a proper handle on the...]]> Fri, 06 May 2011 02:05:00 +0000