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Hello, Well things have been a little on the quiet side here as I recover from my ankle injury. 9 weeks later. Today was my first run post minor surgery, and all feeling good. Just in time. I have a 50km trail Ultra to run in Saturday (3 days away..yikes!) then a steady 20km … Continue reading
Well on my last blog I advised just how many hills I had been doing.. The above are some of my regular battles. All in training for this: All 87.3 km of it… Thank goodness this last weeks training was a “pull back week”: So thank fully went from well over 100kms the previous week … Continue reading
Real barefoot trail running. Yes. Amazed? Yep, so am I. How? Read on. So if you are at my blog you know I do barefoot running as my preferred running style. Mostly on road/pavement/concrete/beach/grass. I have even run a full road marathon totally barefoot. Then you will also know I love trail running. BUT for … Continue reading
Comrades training has now commenced in earnest. Lots of long hill runs every weekend. Have a look at the profile for the course! Yes that is 42km going uphill..all the way! The next big thing is that the KEP ultra (50km, 75km and 100km) ballot entry has been awarded, run in our area on the … Continue reading
The 6 Inch 48km Trail Run. My taper week was spent on a family holiday in a beautiful resort allowing me to have daily massages – bliss. I did some taper running in the hotel gym on a TREADMILL. What an experience. I ran on the tready barefoot, which after about 5km becomes a bit … Continue reading
Wow! I have been off line for a bit. Apologies. I had network connection problems for 2 weeks, then went overseas on a family holiday, ran an ultra, bad flu, Christmas and chaos, and time has just flown! There is to much water under the bridge to catch up, so I will have a … Continue reading
And so another week of running was brought to close. No photos today, but a good read!! This week past was rather over the top for me..two huge assignments had to be re done due to corrupted files and memory stick – and they were my final ones too. Two huge new contracts at … Continue reading
Whilst in my search for a new pair of trail shoes..I am very specific.. I am failing to find the same pair that I have. Tomorrow I will be trialling a pair of Inov8’s…let see. However as one does when surfing the web, I got distracted and saw a post on “should you run in … Continue reading
Another week, another long run, another trail done! Am so lucky to be part of a very enthusiastic inclusive un-official “training group” for our 6 inch trail ultra marathon. Our group has a pretty diverse range of abilities and endurance/speed capacities. But in true trail spirit, this does not matter. Running as a group encourages … Continue reading
One of the main reasons for this blog is to answer questions people raise when they see me run barefoot. To be honest, half the time it takes me a few hours to consider the question before I can answer it holistically. I am a very pragmatic kind of individual, so when people ask me … Continue reading
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