This weeks club run was the longest distance on the syllabus, the Charlie Jones 16km handicap. Was I nervous? Absolutely. The furthest I have run is currently 13km, doing 5:1 run-walk intervals. While I was nervous, I wanted to still give it a go, but just go at a nice easy steady pace of 6:30
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If one year ago you told me I would be a runner, I would have rolled my eyes at you. How things can change. “Wow, I wish I could run”, is what I use to say to myself whenever I saw I runner. Yet every time I tried it I hated it. Every time I
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It’s easy to complain about time. It’s either I don’t have enough, or it simply goes by too quickly. There are 1440 minutes every day, so make those moments count. Notice how busy people always tend to get things done. There is a reason why the saying is: Want something done? Give it to a
This is a SAAC club article and the original can be found here. The flying femme phenomenon rolled on at the Concongella Vineyards last Saturday when Matilda Iglesias waltzed to her maiden win – the seventh by a female in nine races this season. Having only her fourth run with the club Matilda nipped round
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Do you ever look at past events, and you can clearly see where you went wrong? If we only knew then what we know now. Making mistakes is a part of what makes us humans. As humans, we have the ability to change, to make a better version of ourselves. It means we can take
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Early in the year, I set a goal for myself to run a half marathon. After the success of Run for the kids in April, with the 5.2km dash, and then the success of running 11km at Run the Gap in Halls Gap, it feels like a given, then next step in my running journey
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Have you ever played dominoes? Then you know that when you stack dominoes, it only takes one domino to fall, to create a change of events. If it weren’t for a friend mentioning Turbofire in a post on a forum, I would have never found out about it. I would still be unhappy, miserable, and
My dad has always called me cebollita, which means little onion in Spanish. I’ve done blogging before but I figured I would give it another go. Why? Well for a lot of reasons. One of those reasons is my life is very different now than it was 1 year ago. If I can help just
Back in Horsham with the entire family to run the SAAC event. This week, saw the seniors (ok me), run 6.5km on a flat track (unheard of here in Stawell), while the sub-juniors ran 1km. Miles, at 3 decided he wanted to have a go. The sub-juniors got a lift out in the back of
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On the same day that I signed up for Run For the kids (back in February), I signed up for a local event Run The Gap, in Halls Gap. Initially, I signed up for the 6km event but decided to change it to the 11km distance, in preparation for running my first Half Marathon at
