The Secret Life of Kris

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

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Starting again, again?

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Are you one of those people who is always starting over? I am. Sort of. I don’t feel like I’m starting over so much as picking up where I left off. Basically, after my last “yee-ha here we go” post, everything fell apart again and I didn’t get any other exercise done at all. Until [...]

So, I’ve been meaning to update for a few days but everything’s been so busy. There’s just so much going on right now, and I’m honestly struggling to keep up. But there’s been some good stuff as well. Last Friday evening I managed my first decent run since the half marathon (almost three weeks earlier [...]

Weight, strength and fun!

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I’ve just been listening to two of my favourite podcasts, GeekGirlRunner by the other Kris and Hear Zen Run by Zenrunner this morning (Thanks so much for the shoutout on Runner’s Round Table by the way!) Both of them happened to touch on an interesting point: running for fun and enjoyment, instead of purely for [...]

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 [...]

I have never been dependant on caffeine like so many of the people in his modern world are, and I have always been proud of that fact. Ok, there have been a few times in my life when I chose to take a no-doze tablet at work every day for a week because I was [...]