Spies and spooks selling secrets?

Posted by on Jun 24, 2009 in Pondering | 0 comments It stands to reason that if you are selling secrets, you must be a spy.. right! And spies that sell secrets are at great risk of being gaoled, fined or even killed. So why is it that every day I get at least an email or a tweet, or I come across a website that is offering to sell me a quantity of secrets. Most secret vendors sell them in bundles of seven, although sometimes you can purchase 17 or...
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Training week 7 Step it up a notch

Posted by on Jun 23, 2009 in City2Surf, Lifting Your Game | 0 comments We are starting to get into the serious part of the program and it is time to begin putting some more effort into our training. You don’t want to get too comfortable with jogging day in and day out, or your performance will suffer. There are a lot of things you can do to improve your running, but without actually watching you train, I couldn’t guess at what is the most critical thing...
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City to Surf training plan – Stage Two

Posted by on Jun 23, 2009 in City2Surf, Lifting Your Game | 0 comments With seven weeks to go, you should be feeling a bit fitter and by now you should also be getting comfortably into a regular jogging routine. So, now we want to maintain the routine but it is time to get uncomfortable again: In the next three weeks we will focus on increasing our speed and conditioning by introducing the fartlek into the program, along with three important techniques for...
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No time to run yesterday but I did it

Posted by on Jun 19, 2009 in City2Surf, Lifting Your Game | 0 comments Yesterday I had planned to run a 10km before breakfast but circumstances meant that I didn’t have enough time available. The temptation is to run a 5km, do nothing or reschedule a 10km run for another day; but I did none of these. A few years ago I had a friend who was a very good half marathon runner. He had been quite sick for around six weeks leading up to the Sydney Half Marathon and...
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My first City to Surf in 1971

Posted by on Jun 18, 2009 in City2Surf, Lifting Your Game | 0 comments I remember when we drove down to Sydney to run the first City to Surf in 1971 (now called City2Surf). It was a very early start for us, as we lived in the Blue Mountains at the time, and my father always wanted to get to an event with time to spare, so we left at about 6am for the drive to Sydney. No freeway in those days, so it was a long drive along a single lane highway that meandered through...
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