Stawell Toyota 8km Race Review I was itching to hit the pavement. A forced hiatus thanks to a family visit to Melbourne and a bout of COVID had left my running shoes gathering dust. Skipping last week’s 5K was a bitter pill to swallow, but my body needed the extra recovery time. So, this week
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Back in December 2021, we demolished our house in preparation for building a new one. Three months into the build and a lot have happened. After clearing all the debris we used an alternative to concrete stumps, Mega Anchors. People have asked us why we haven’t gone concrete. Simply put, concrete is not a sustainable
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Starting Point: Tunnel Rd, PomonalEnd Point: Middle Gap, Mt WilliamHighlights: The Flume, Seven Dials, Redman’s BluffDistance: 21.2kmTotal Elevation: 1374mTime: 5 hours When you have 3 hours to do on the training plan, you decide to run from Tunnel Rd, Pomonal, to Middle Gap, Mt William along the Grampians/Gariwerd Peaks trail (aka GPT). Except for the
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You are never sure you are capable of something until you actually give it a go. My last long run before my Run to Paradise (non) event had all that. After speaking to my coach we decided on 5 hours if it was going to be more running than walking. A run like this takes
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When I started this project, it was the intention to capture our everyday family life. I grew up doing a lot of “posed” photos. Needless to say, I have a huge dislike for posed images. They have their time and place, but they don’t depict true life. Life isn’t always sunshine and roses. You can
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The RSL is just around the corner from last week’s image of the morticians. However, having the 85mm lens I felt restricted and knew to give this building its full glory I would have to come back with the wide-angle. With the late evening sunlight, I think I captured the magic and history of such
We are up to week 50! Say wha! Isn’t it typical, that we come to the end of the project and we get all these ideas for locations for photos? Maybe the “run my hometown” challenge has me inspired. This week I set myself the challenge to use the 85mm lens. Now this lens is
My intention during week 46 of this project was to take an image of the weighbridge. I just wasn’t happy with it. The lighting was wrong, and I just couldn’t get the angle right. Fast forward to now, I’m still not 100% happy with it, but I captured it. No doubt I will be back
I run past a lot of houses. Some I take notice of some I ignore. Every house has a story, so when I ran past this house on Margaret St, I knew I would have to come back and visit it for my photography project. I have no idea how long it has been abandoned,
One thing I have enjoyed about this project is finding the little hidden gems of our hometown. It’s easy to go past something every day and not notice it. Recently I started a running project, to run every street in my home town. I wish I started it in line with this project, as I
