School of Running

This is post #1500. Not £1500. Why did I get "£1500"? Because in desperation I have changed to a British keyboard definition. Why?...

speedygeese at last night's track meet. 800m M45 Rod Lynch 2:24.62 79.0% M60 Kevin Chamberlain 2:30.33 85.3 M50 Gary Bowen 2:31.34 77...

On November 02, 2007 , I fore-shadowed that I would be awarding a book prize to the 50,000th visitor to this blog. And that is what I have ...

Spring Series 2 - Black Mountain Peninsula 5k 34. Mick Horan 21:30 62. Neil Boden 24:54 63. David Baussmann 24:59 78. Caroline Campbell ...

Monday night speedygeese training : Alan, Amanda, Bronwyn, Christopher, Gary, me, Helen, Jodie D, Joel, Katie, Ken, Mick C, Miranda, Neil, R...

Another week begins , and once again velocitous avians (a.k.a. speedy geese) will be seen flying around Parliament House on Monday, tip-toei...

NO NO! this post is NOT about a suspect American pop group of yore. Today my grandson Jackson Moore turns five ! The musical connection is c...

All the speedygeese track results from Thursday night. 1500m M45 Rod Lynch 4:57.82 79.4% M50 Gary Bowen 5:22.14 75.5 W40 Katie Forestier ...

The prize for the 50,000th visitor has gone to .... Sonia Veldhoven ! Congratulations! The prize is in the mail. I won't reveal what th...

....not yet known. This is a bit like a draw prize at the races where you have to be present to win. Either I must be able to identify you, ...

Sometimes, with all this exercise, I'm so hungry I could beat a dead horse . Curious that my Garmin played up on the Weston Park run. It...

Spring Series #1- Weston Park 5k Tuesday 4 November 22. Geoff Moore M60 20:33 35. Thea Zimpel 22:16 46. Roger Pilkington M45 23:37 51. Da...

song of the week : " Unwinding Cable Car " from Anberlin ’s 2007 album, “ Cities ”. Although never making the charts here, this so...

Why did the chicken cross the road? It thought it was poultry in motion. My training progress last week’s target: 90k achieved: 63k year ...

They were running hand in hand, and the Queen went so fast that it was all she could do to keep up with her: and still the Queen kept crying...

Today at the track , Athletics ACT has its "number two" program, which includes 3.45pm 3000m 4.10pm 1500m There are also steeplech...

Last night there were four of us in the M60 age group who set out to break the ACT record for 4x800m. The ACT M60 record was 11:26.1. And I ...

The ACT election results have just been finalised. A summary for non-ACT readers: the first mob campaigned on how bad the second mob were. T...

“A gentleman will walk but never run” – Sting, from the song "An Englishman in New York"! Photo by flashduck! I have been hearing...

song of the week ABC television's "Rage" showed three brilliant videos on the weekend; the live version of "Lost" by...