The Secret Life of Kris

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

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Bay Run & City2Surf Race Reports

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A tale of two very different races.. Apologies for the delay on these. Life is crazy busy as is the norm. The Bay Run – 1st August 2010 The Bay Run is a picturesque 7km run around Iron Cove Bay in Rozelle, NSW. It’s a gorgeous area, mostly flat, and right on the water’s edge [...]

Refrigerated Plantains!

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On Wednesday I put out a call to all my readers (all two of you!) for advice on how long my final long run should be (Thanks Other Kris & JayDub!) and eventually decided on doing a time-based run of two and a half hours instead of a distance-based run. And I did end up [...]

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.. [...]