HuRTS Squad

t was an inauspicious start to the day, groggily opening my eyes at 4.30am<x-apple-data-detectors://0> to see Birchy’s hairy back on the twin bed next to mine.  But I was determined that things were going to improve from here.  Jumped out of bed to see Barts and Jeet starting the pre-race routine.  For Jeet this involves intense concentration and ignoring everyone around him.  For Barts it involves bagging everyone out and generally being a pain in the ass.  We were all…

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2019 plan My main ‘A’ race in the first half of the year was the 87km Comrades ultramarathon. Having completed the down run in 2010 I was keen to return one year to take on the up run, you aren’t a true Comrades runner until you have done both !  Training had gone well from January  through March and April using Sixfoot track and the Canberra 50km to build and I was feeling strong and set my sights on a…

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Most runners know of the Comrades Marathon, the oldest and largest ultramarathon in the world, a bucket list item for many.  However, this unique event really needs to be experienced to see why it holds such a strong place in South African culture, and is loved by so many runners across the world. The race started in 1921 to commemorate the efforts of South African World War I veterans.  It was run from Pietermaritzburg to Durban, a distance of approximately…

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In several respects, this was a unique build up to the June edition of the North Head 10km: no racing (excluding parkrun) since Boston, in contrast to most others in Hurts who did the Sydney 10 or SMH or both; managed to twinge my right ITB 4 days pre-race during a self-imposed 1km rep session which forced me to back off completely for a couple of days prior to the race. Indeed I wasn’t 100% confident I would make the…

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Family Affair – Sydney 10 – 4.05.2019 A grand day on the Sydney Racing Calendar: Sydney 10 Lots at stake for me this year: · Always seeking to get a PB on that course no matter what the preparation · I had dragged my Mother in Law, visiting from Ireland, along to spectate at her very first large scale road race. Surely a visit to Olympic Park is on the Sydney tourist list · Even more importantly, it was the…

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Well, May rolls around and suddenly all the big races come thick and fast.  And few are bigger than the Sydney10.  I was short on the bets on this race but the one I had was a fairly big one; $50 head to head with young Jack Maxwell.  Now Jack is a bit of a cheeky lad and has been talking for while about how the HuRT Squad is ripe for a changing of the guard to allow the talented…

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