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898 days ago
Yes, its time to pick up stakes and move on to greener pastures... My new blog can be found at http://talicca.blogspot.com If you're odd enough to have me bookmarked, it might be a good time to update them. See you there!934 days ago
... Some race photos that don't have me looking like a complete moron! Check out the photos section for a couple from the Brisbane Marathon Festival 10k. How I had the energy to alter my face from its original expression of pain and tormen to such a bright, sunny smile I have no idea. Desperation perhaps. Either way, I shan't complain. The other photo was from the very beginning of the race. Not that I recognised any landmarks or anything, goodness no. The fact that my mouth is closed is a dead giveaway. Within the first 2km my mouth started hanging open in an attempt to get in as much oxygen as possible. Hell, if I could be sucking air in through my ears I would have! In other news, I did a distance PR yesterday... 17km. A very slow, plodding 17km, but 17km nonetheless. With my half-marathon only about 8 weeks away, I've been really trying to ramp up my mileage and get some good long runs in. My legs were definitely unhappy with the situation, especially for the ...
948 days ago
Race Report - Brisbane Marathon Festival 10k race - 22 April 2007 On a message board elsewhere in cyberspace, someone had written "It was a perfect day for the beach...", and they were right. Bright, hot sunshine, no wind to blow sand in your face, not a cloud in the sky. It was not, however, a perfect day to run 10k! When the race started at 9am, it was already nearly 25degrees, and climbing. But even the heat couldn't dampen my excitement, and my dread, of racing 10k for the first time this year. Not wanting to fight my way through with parking, I walked the couple of kilometers from home to Southbank nice and early, leaving myself plenty of time to grab my morning wake-up long black coffee and drop my bag off in the baggage tent before meeting up with some friends for a quick hello before the race. After taking care of pre-race business, we went our separate ways to prepare for the start. With a little squeezing, I managed to position myself in the edge of ...
953 days ago
With only four sleeps to go until my 10km race at the Brisbane Marathon Festival, I'm currently alternating between frenzied excitement, and abject terror. No, there's no in-between or moderation here whatsoever (somewhat like my chocolate consumption over Easter, but that again is a whole 'nother kettle of fish). Have I run a 10km race before? Sure have! In fact, my race report from that one can probably still be found in the July archives from last year. And heck, I even did the Bridge to Brisbane last year, a whole extra 2km, so what am I worrying about? The same thing I always worry about of course! My own freakishly high standards. Last year, I struggled over the finish line with a time of 1:03:03, which was really quite respectable for a short-legged former-fatty that had only been running consistently for about 4-6 months. This year my goal is obviously to beat last year, but not just that... I'm hanging out for a sub 1hr 10km. Can I do it? My recent 5k race ...
997 days ago
Race Report - Adidas International Women's Day 5k, 4th March 2007 Well, in my last entry, I did say that I would try to run another minor race on top of the major ones I had planned for the year. Somewhat on the spur of the moment, at the suggestion of my housemate Kylie, that race became the Adidas International Women's Day 5k. "What a great way to kick off the racing season!" said I, thinking it would be a really good tune-up and give me an indication of how my training was progressing and what times I could expect to run in my later races. Plus, I hadn't run a 5k race since 2003, so I was really interested to see what sort of time I could whip out of myself now that I've got some serious training behind me. And so, after my obligatory cup of morning coffee, Kylie and I laced up our shoes and walked along the river to Southbank for a 7am race start. Or so we thought! There was some major confusion at the start and we didn't end up getting underway ...
