Trail Running Technique (and what not to do)
When you start running on trails you quickly learn that it’s nothing like running on the road, in my case the majority of...
Category: Running
Trail Running Solo
A few weeks back I was following a thread on Facebook asking women how comfortable they felt running trails alone and I was...
Trail running and how to deal with the Zombie Holes
Last weekend I put James “in charge” of where we would do our Saturday morning run and (without much knowledge) he chose to...
Beating the sun
I watched this amazing documentary today about a relay race where teams circumnavigate the 150km around Mont Blac on the longest day each...
When is a half marathon not a half marathon?
I came across the Marathon Investigation blog a few months back, I’m guessing via a Facebook link posted in one of the numerous...
Trail Running – Getting Started
How do you become a trail runner? Find a trail and run along it .. How do you find trails? The simplest way...
Facebook made me do it
The other day as I was bemoaning climbing a big arse hill out on the trail I thought about how random it was that...
Decisions, decisions
The other day I told you how I went over to Rangitoto to run the Dual Half Marathon course. We’ll I’m not sure...
What’s my name?
Today I headed over on the early bird ferry to Rangitoto – not only is it cheap ($20.00 return for an adult) but...
Stranger Danger
Whenever I turn up to a trail head at the same time as another person/group I tend to take some extra time to...