Sydney Half Marathon – sweet 72 after a 14 year wait ! After Comrades back in June the Sydney Half was my next planned ‘A’ race, I figured the 10 week gap was enough to recover and then sharpen up again. I first broke 74 mins for a half in 2004 and ever since have been trying to break 73 mins. I came agonisingly close in 2005 and 2006 running 73:05 and 73:05 in Milton Keynes and Reading before…
Another cracking day and very pleased with a new PB, if only by a few seconds. Once again in early 2019 when I planned out my priority races for the year, City2Surf wasn’t high on the list. With Comrades in June I wasn’t expecting to have the speed to nail a good C2S. However, as with previous years I couldn’t help but enter and be part of one of the best social run days of the year. City2Surf is slowly…
As the first morning rays creep over the looming bulk of the infamous Kings Cross Coke sign, the nerves immediately begin to tingle. It suddenly starts to feel real. History dictates that it simply will not rain on us. Nor should it. Because we are assembling at the start of Australia’s most iconic running event – The City to Surf. On a global scale, this event is well known. In running circles perhaps it’s up there with how the Melbourne…
Selection for NSW team: After Sydney 10 in May, Jack Maxwell (he gets mentioned a lot in these reports) had the bright idea of submitting our names for the NSW team for the Australian Half Marathon champs to be held on the Sunshine Coast in August. I thought there was no harm in putting my name in for consideration but expected that I would be lucky to make the team of 6. I then forgot about it until I received…