Phoenix Runs

Noosa Half Marathon

2007-08-21T10:35:00.001+10:00

Noosa half mara. Arhh, it was a fun morning.We got to the race village at around 5am'ish. It was a overcast morning, but still dry. Around 17 degree. I did a K or so warm up with Salli from around the start line, off over the first bridge and back. Help to pass that pre-event time well. Lining up at the start there weren't that many people there yet, so I ended up pretty close to the front.

It's Oh So Quiet

2007-08-17T08:35:00.000+10:00

Tap tap tap. Is there anyone in there? I think there's no one home. It's oh so quiet.Hmmm. Cough, cough. Arrr, I'm still here. Just been a bit quiet on the blogging front. So what been going on? Well lets see.A few weeks after doing the Canberra marathon I was feeling great and looking forward to going on to do Gold Coast. The some niggles started. First it was a spasm in the left hami.

Canberra Marathon

2007-04-18T11:14:00.000+10:00

Wow, what a weekend. It was all very fun. First marathon, wow. It was a big experience. Well I finished it. I ran all the way (i.e. didn't give up and walk) and I survived. That was goal number one. I got 3:57! Cool, sub 4hrs. That was goal number two. Apart from that, I didn't really firmly set any goal higher than that. I figured that 3:45 to 3:50 would be nice and achievable. And I was running

Taper Town

2007-04-06T16:26:00.000+10:00

The time has come, only a couple of days to go. I'm not nervous (yet), but it is getting exciting. At the moment my attitude is very fatalistic. I've done all the training that was humanly possible for me in the time frame that I had, and now its upon us. Yeehaa!I've been making list, and checking them twice. Picking a playlist for the iPod takes a while. I've got 4 1/2 hours of music, so

Get ready, test everything...

2007-04-02T09:57:00.000+10:00

I know, I know. Very slack in blogland. Excuses can be rendered as follows... busy, busted laptop, dislike of sitting still at a desktop PC to write more than 3 lines at a time, etc.Time to test all the race gear. Check out anything new. This is my new earphones for the iPod. What do you think? Should be OK, unless it rains and gets windy :-(.I did my last loooong run on Saturday week ago.

Head down, bottom up...

2007-03-23T15:28:00.000+10:00

A big awrite tae every body it thaur.Everything’s been very hectic, with training hard its all time consuming, and the laptop blew up. Hell, I’ve just been tired and couldn’t be stuff blogging anything for the last couple of weeks. Here’s the last couple of weeks in a nutshell… ***Sat 10th. Did a 3Hr+ Brisbane river loop run with the Running Buddies Lindsay and Joseph. It was hot, but not

I have a cunning plan m'lord

2007-02-27T11:37:00.000+10:00

Firstly I'd like to say best of luck to all those who are running in this weekends 6 Foot Marathon. 2P, R2B, CJ, Geoff, Superflake, etc, etc. I wish you all have a great run :-). Over the previous few weeks there have been some questions about what my Canberra marathon plan were. I have very much appreciated all the support and advice that has been offered by everyone. It has helped

One more long run...done

2007-02-26T18:32:00.000+10:00

On Saturday I got one more 30+ long run done. Should be getting easier now.......right?Following Pat's program, I had a 3 hour run to do. Which should work out to about 32'ish km. I'm still keeping this longer stuff pretty slow as sure am still getting used to this length of run. I wanted to keep it between about 5:30 to 5:50 pace most of the time. Because of the need to keep control of the

Speed Hills and Speed

2007-02-22T19:23:00.000+10:00

This is the week's efforts so far...View from underneth the Story Bridge:Tues at Pat's.I felt slightly weary during the warmup run from the Ship Inn to New Farm. Today we'd train on the path underneth the Story Bridge, with 8 x 1 min efforts, with 30 sec standing recovery. I love this one too (even though there is stopping involved). The weariness went way as soon as we started to do strides.

3km TT and The Long Run

2007-02-18T20:51:00.000+10:00

Fridays Night - Brisbane Running Groups 3km ChallengeNothing too special to say here. I was pretty tired from running everyday this week, so I wasn't expecting much. The start of the time trial was very slow, with people everywhere and the path in the botanicals fully choked. Still, times weren't important here in this race, it was you position that mattered. I did the first two and a half

Tuesday Speed at Pat's - Yeeha

2007-02-15T20:01:00.000+10:00

Brisbane Botanical Gardens(nice arn't they)Tuesday Speed at Pat'sYeeha! One of my favourites today. It was 30sec efforts with 30 jog recoveries. After a few k's warmup, we got to the city botanical gardens for this one. In a large loop around a few paths and grassy bits we run around and around. Not sure why I like this one. Maybe because its pretty easy to gauge how hard to push it. You can up

Yuk yuk yuk

2007-02-15T14:35:00.000+10:00

Just in case you've not smiled or laughed today :-)*Warning* You'll never get these nine minutes of your life back again.

Caboolture Dusk to Dawn 2007

2007-02-12T18:56:00.000+10:00

Caboolture Dusk to Dawn 2007Here's some photo's of the Caboolture D2D. The camera was doing some odd things, so numerous photos didn't turn out too well. But many of them did. See for yourself...Click on the photo bar on the right to view different photos.~

Loooong runs (again)

2007-02-11T21:09:00.000+10:00

Saturday - I got up a bit before 4:00 am.I wanted to do around 31k's (which would be about 10% more than last week), and to stick to easy pace of around 5:45. This is similar to last week's 28k run. I did have to opportunity to run in Sat evenings Caboolture Dusk Till Dawn race, sharing a 6hr run with PCRG star Cassie, but turned it down. I thought that I might be better off doing my own thing

Rest.....mmmmm

2007-02-08T15:06:00.000+10:00

Breath in & hold it ....Exhale

Running Menu....

2007-02-07T07:32:00.000+10:00

Wednesday 5:30am. 6km + 10% @ 5:30 = 8km @ 5:10 huh?On the menu today, slow run... somewhere. Still slowly adding to this new midweek run. Easy does it, as I try to add another 10%. For a change I thought I'd not run in the local suburb (The Gap), but instead head down to the Regatta where the Running Buddies tend to meet on Wednesdays. I was still going to run off and do my own thing (as my

Monday Rest, Tuesday Hills

2007-02-06T15:56:00.000+10:00

Monday Rest :-)Exhale...Tuesday: Speed at Pat'sToday we did hill rep's in the park. I've not done hill rep's at Pat's before. This is now my new favourite Pat speed session. Previously it was the 30 sec sprint 30 sec jog recover reps. Maybe its something to do with that the session is continuous, with none of this standing recovery stuff.After the warmup, but before we began I was feeling a

Bean Running

2007-02-05T09:04:00.000+10:00

Wednesday - 6km slowish run (5:30 pace). Wednesday hasn't been a running day for me, but I'd like it to be. So I keep trying to add it in here. I figured if I went easy, it would be like a "recovery run", right? Whenever I do a little run from home, I tend to go the same way each time. The route takes me from home, across The Gap and up the other side onto Mt Nebo Rd. I was only crawling

3km Time Trial PB and Bling :-)

2007-01-30T09:54:00.000+10:00

Here's proof that you can never have to much bling!Tad EvermoreToday was the February 3km Time Trial at the Pat Carroll speed session. I know I know, its not February yet. The last 3km TT for January was one week late (on the 9th) so I guess this one was early to make up for it. ARRH! Not ready! See, I was keen to do good this time around as a PB would mean three consecutive PB's and that

Little Buddies 18.5km

2007-01-27T15:36:00.001+10:00

Saturday 5:30 am start.Sunrise was 5:16 am. BOM the temp was 24.1 and 83% humidity, so it felt muggy (but that's nothing new).I turned up pretty much right on 5:30, so was rushing along just to get to the Ship Inn on time. As I arrived, the only other person there was Midori. Then Tim and one other new lady Tina arrived. That was it. Small group today! Green bridge loop it was.The Green bridge

Speed II & III

2007-01-25T20:26:00.001+10:00

Not the terrible sequel, the one without Canoe Reeves (Keanu), but just more speed work.Western Wednesday:Because I've been on holidays and haven't done much speed work for weeks, and next week is a 3km TT (arhh), I thought I'd jam another little bit of speed in this week. So this morning I traveled to near work and did this...3 x 1km efforts with JR. The splits were ... 4:07, 4:06, 4:04. Very

Frappé 5 - There can be only one

2007-01-25T09:12:00.000+10:00

The gauntlet has been cast, and the challenge have been extended. I refer to the Frappé Five. After some encouragement, I've been convinced to put in my five picks for this prestigious .... thing.The challenge is to pick 5 songs from the Triple J Hottest 100 song voting list, that you think will be in final top 10 songs played on Fridays Australia day Triple J Hottest 100 countdown. I won't

Hot Speed 500's

2007-01-23T09:30:00.000+10:00

Speed at Pat's today. Jeez it felt hot! The BOM indicated it was 24.2 degrees and 88% humidity at 5:30 am! The BOM stated 'apparent temperature' was 28.6 degree (over 30 by 7am).By the end of the warm up I was dripping in sweat (not perspiration). Today we had 6 to 8 500 metre efforts with 45 second standing recovery.I didn't have my normal watch on, so I didn't get accurate splits. I do

Weekend Runs

2007-01-22T09:36:00.000+10:00

Finally holidays are done! The family and I return from the Gold Coast last Friday. Now to get back to normal life.Saturday 5:30 am. Sunrise was 5:11 am. In less that four weeks it will be later that 5:30 (15th Feb)! The weather at the start was 19.8 degrees and 84% humidity! Oh, running, yeah. The run was with the Brisbane Running Buddies, from the Ship Inn South Brisbane, over the Victoria

Relative running

2007-01-18T20:12:00.000+10:00

I did that run with my newly found tri cousin and his tri buddies. We did the same run I've done a few times in the last week or so. That run was to go from Main beach down to Kurrawa and back.We started off around 5:30am. Nice and early so it was cool and a little breezy. During running it was a bit humid, but that wasn't really a bother.The run down to Kurrawa and the run back was great.

Back to Norm

2007-01-16T21:00:00.000+10:00

I've had a couple of days off (rest) and just ate normally. Normal eating for me just means eating a lot :-).Today I had a good run from Main beach to Mermaid beach and back. Its about 12.4km. I wasn't particularly trying to do a tempo run, but its probably worked out that way.The middle couple of k's were a little slower probably because I found a few hills down in Mermaid beach that I ran

Boom

2007-01-13T21:35:00.001+10:00

The plan today was to do a 18k'ish run with the Running Buddies. Some of the 'Buddies' were going to do 28km, but I was just going to stick with the 18km. This was the same run we did last Saturday. I had a great run last week and was looking forward to doing the same again this week.The run would go from the Ship Inn, over the Goodwill Bridge, out via Coronation Drive, through St Lucia, over

Solo running GC Style

2007-01-12T19:37:00.000+10:00

This weeks efforts so far.Wednesday: Sleep. I did think that maybe I'd getup and do just a little 5km. This goes with the idea of slowly added a couple more running days into the schedule, but doing it gradually. Anyway, I was tired after yesterdays early start (3:45am) and the 3km TT, so I just slept. Shot me.Thursday: I was missing out on Pat's today. Over there I knew that they would be

3km Time Trial PB :-)

2007-01-09T23:00:00.000+10:00

Today was the monthly 3km time trial at Pats. This would be my third 3km TT at Pats. I got up around 3:45am, got ready and drove from the holiday unit down the Gold Coast back to Southbank. The drive back is only an hour or so, but I'd allowed at least 1 1/2Hr. The drive up was full of thoughts like "why am I doing this?" and "normal people don't do this... normal people are still asleep!".The

Running here and there

2007-01-09T22:03:00.000+10:00

Thursday at Pat's.2 x 1.5km with 45sec SRDecided to take it a little bit slow to go easier on the hami. So this worked out to be around 4:26 pace. Short SR :-). then...2 x 500m with 45sec SRThe 1st 500 was a bit slack. The SR was short. The last good (<2min).Friday a couple of k's. Did around 5km alone at Geebung. Getting back into thing slowly.Saturday Green Bridge Loop 18.5kmRan with the

Happy New Year 2007

2007-01-01T09:18:00.000+10:00

Friday - Bribie Run. The plan was to do a small 7.5km run from the holiday house in Banksia Beach (Bribie Island) to the start of the national park (at the end of an area called White Patch). The run out to the national park was a little further than I thought at around 5-6km.So, instead of the planned 7.5km, this was going to turn into 10-11km. Oh well. I was running the return trip much

Festive Runs

2006-12-28T21:45:00.000+10:00

Sat-The Ship Inn Running Buddies style at 5:30am. The plan was to christen the new Green Bridge that goes between St Lucia and Dutton Park. The run would go from Southbank, around through West End, Highgate Hill (Dornoch Tce), Dutton Park, over the new bridge, then through St Lucia, and back around to Southbank. This would work out to be around 18.5 km.I was planning to get to the bridge then

Timely prize

2006-12-21T21:51:00.000+10:00

I still went to Pat's this morning, even though there would be no running from my side (dang again). I wanted to see this festive session for myself. I figured that I could probably help setting up or help marshal, seeing as there would be numerous kids there to look after. I also had the secret Santa gift already wrapped and ready.Click the photo to see all the PCRG Christmas Photos (Warning!

Dang, grounded

2006-12-20T20:32:00.000+10:00

For several weeks I've occasionally had a bit of a pain in the right hami, right heal, sometimes right foot on the top. Not enough to slow me down, just niggly little pain. It was only really a bother in the last 5km of the Kurrawa to Duranbah a week or so back.I figured it was probably really due to the need for more stretching and needing new shoes. I fixed the latter a week or so back. I

Easy runs, speed runs, hill runs.

2006-12-20T12:28:00.000+10:00

This has been the training week so far...Saturday: Ran from the Ship Inn, Running Buddies style :-). It was a small crowd of only 5-6 of us. We ran from the Ship Inn to New Farm and back (~10 or 11km maybe). We didn't go quite all the way to New Farm park. It was not too hot, but it was very humid (:-p. Everyone seem quite content to take it quite easy. This suited me well. I was quite glad chose

Now a rushed running retrospective

2006-12-15T11:14:00.000+10:00

This weeks training log....Monday:Rest. Sleep. Bliss.Tues:Skipped Pat's this morning. A number of the more experienced runners at last Sundays K2D suggested that rest would be a much better idea, instead of jumping back into a speed session today.By the evening I was getting restless, so I did a nice easy 5km. It's nice running in the late evening. I'd forgotten that. I'm just getting so used

Kurrawa to Duranhah Race

2006-12-11T20:00:00.000+10:00

The Kurrawa to Duranbah race is an annual event held on the Gold Coast (Qld, Australia). Kurrawa is in Broadbeach, and Duranbah is just over the boarder in NSW. Info on the race can be found here. This was my first go at this event. Before hand I was quite nervous, not knowing what to expect. Not a great sleep.It was all very exciting. Great atmosphere. It was a real treat seeing everyone

Easy run = Pancakes, Wet Keys & Scambled Eggs

2006-12-07T19:45:00.000+10:00

Easy 50min run at Pats today. It's meant to be an easy one after the 3km time trials last Tuesday. So we did a run from the Ship Inn out to New Farm and back. I spent much of the time running with Tess, Clarie, & Diana (Vic Tri/Marathon ring-in). Then I spent the last part of the run with Emily, so I could talk to her about her PB on Tuesday. Then we had the No Watch 1KM. I thought taking it

PCRG December 3km Time Trial

2006-12-05T21:07:00.000+10:00

Time for December's Pat Carroll 3km time trial. I had a great time, and it was wonderful to see so many people excelling. Lots of great PB's. Cassie shaving around 1min25s off last month! Tess sliced another 8 sec of her best this years! Ian, Emily, Sue, Jean & Wayne just to mention a few more PB getters. Its easy to commit and improve when surrounded by greatness.Today there were two

More Speed

2006-12-03T16:37:00.000+10:00

I'm going to log the weeks training efforts, hummn, because I can.Tues 28th was a 5:40am Pat Carroll speed session at New Farm (well, the path under the story bridge anyway). This time around it was 6 x 500m efforts. As usual, I messed up with the lapping/pausing of my watch. So I'm not 100% sure on the splits. Still, I can work out that the overall average time for each split was 2:04. Not

New Running Toys - Nike and iPod Nano and OK GO

2006-12-01T19:54:00.000+10:00

OK, I confess... I like new running toys. This is something new from Nike and Apple (iPod Nano). Hummn, I wonder if you can set it to metric, cause I don't run miles, only kilometres.Ooh that reminds me, I should put the OK Go song Here It Goes Again onto the mp3 player. I do like that song.~

Which way to Duranbah?

2006-11-30T19:37:00.000+10:00

~I was curious as to the route the upcoming Kurrawa to Duranbah race on 10th Dec 2006 will take. The K2D event is a 50km solo race, or a 25km relay race. Kurrawa is in Broadbeach. Duranbah is in Tweed Head, NSW. I couldn't find a route map on the K2D website here.So I took the description on the K2D site and pegged it out on the Gmaps Pedometer web site. And here it is, the whole map (click

Mt Coot-tha x 2 or Twin Peaks

2006-11-26T16:18:00.000+10:00

Time for a long run. Mt Coot-tha squared. Today, either 15km or 25km.I drove to the Regatta nice and early. From here I ran off to Mt Coot-tha (about 2.5km to get to the base). I was unsure how I was going to feel on the big 2 1/2 km hill today. Yesterday I was still feeling shabby from Fridays efforts.Off up the hill at a nice slow pace. This time I got all the way to the top without

Gotta be nuts to run in this heat

2006-11-25T20:13:00.000+10:00

Fri 24th.Lunch time run. I used to run at lunchtime often. I've not done it for a while. I took along the water bottle and headed off from Geebung. The plan was to go for around one hour. That's how long lunch should be, right?. I got to Nundah around the half way point. I've never gotten this far away from work during a lunch run. I end returning via Toombul.It was hot, and there were

Testing, testing... is this thing on?

2006-11-10T21:50:00.000+10:00

This is just a quick post to see if this blog thing is working.Tap, tap, hello.