The Secret Life of Kris

Life and training updates, and random thoughts, from a Sydney runner.

Browsing Posts published in April, 2010

Disclaimer: Obviously I’m no expert at running or at devising training plans, or sticking to them for that matter. I’ve been running for a bit shy of 2 years. To: Anyone who happens to read this post. Ok, here’s the deal. My initial training for my first ever half marathon (the SMH Half-Marathon on May [...]

The Importance of Being Warm

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Only 3 weeks til the SMH Half Marathon. Scary! This week went pretty well -I’m happy, anyway. I got my planned 4km in on Sunday. On Tuesday I was running late so I did my hill training but only 6 repeats instead of 10. Same story Wednesday -got my run in but only a bit [...]

Another week, and another long run.. but unfortunately, not much else! After last Sunday’s run, I missed both Tuesday’s hill training and Wednesday’s regular run. I also didn’t use the evil foam roller in the first half of the week. I used it Thursday night but knew I would probably pay for being so lax.. [...]

The Year of the Dinner Party

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I have always enjoyed baking and cooking, but I also an essentially lazy person and won’t cook unless there’s a reason to. A month or two before the end of last year I was pondering this and wishing there were more opportunities for dinner parties and things -I mean, I guess I could just have [...]

14.5km Long Run Report

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Yesterday’s long run went really well. Couldn’t be happier. The plan was 14.5km. I intended to do two laps of my regular Blackwattle Bay route, which I thought would probably cover about 13km, and then I could just do one or two laps of Wentworth Park, about 1.6km round, til I hit the 14.5km mark. [...]