School of Running

Today, day 124 of my streak, I will be just jogging 6k, then heading off to a funeral - the last remaining brother of five, my wife's un...

Tossing and turning An essential element of every training plan is recovery . Easy days, recovery runs, and rest must be factored into ever...

speedygeese in the Ginninderra parkrun #1 - 28/04/2012 - 5k. 14 Lucia Pietropaoli 23:02 64.25% 36 Jill Pearson 26:52 65.63% 91 runner...

Congratulations to Susan , who has been accepted into this year's New York marathon! Yesterday at Acton Ferry Terminal Justine, me...

taken by John Kennedy

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/the-evolution-of-the-runners-high/ I have never experienced runner's high , not in 50+ years ...

Train for the longest distance you are going to race. Now that the 50k is done, I will be training for everything up to the half marathon. ...

One cannot progress without a plan. I would like to get strong enough to be able to complete ten chin-ups in a row. But I do reverse chin-u...

Song of the week : Sherlock’s Daughter: "Reprise" . I am related to one of the group members... such energy! About Mondays : ...

On Friday I posted my pattern for the next six months, but I also have an 18 month plan leading up to the next Australian Masters Games in...

Here's my updated weight graph In a fit person, there is a clear relationship between weight and performance. Generally speaking, as ...

Another thing which may have helped recovery was the cold shower. Every shower time I start off with hot then (if I remember) switch to col...

More of a traditional training pattern for me for the next 6 months, helped by the fact that I'm coaching Tuesdays & Thursdays inste...

Coffee re-visited . I am not drinking coffee this year but have done so twice: immediately before the two long races where this was appropri...

Dickson training last night : Excellent conditions, great track, all the lights on, gentle breeze, and eight of us attending,  running 200s+...

Song of the week : Snow Patrol's Fallen Empires . Results from Customs 5k 13 April Jen Bright 21.23, Miranda Rawlinson 26.32. ...

Coming Events, week 16 of 2012: Tuesday 17 April 5:30pm *Dickson Oval speedygeese training Wednesday 18 April 12:15pm BBQ Stakes 6k Wo...

..."run a 50k ultra". Done. My splits: half marathon 1:40. Marathon 3:30. Final time something under 4:20. So the pacing went exa...

Joel; Jill; Yelena at three stages of the event. 5k result 50th Joel Pearson 20:50 127th Jill Pearson 26:00 136th Yelena Pe...

The countdown days are now reading "000". I remember when they read "180". Time does fly. The only competitiveness  I...