Less than 8 weeks to go and I’ve just done my Tuesday morning 8km jog that is on my City2Surf training plan (which you can download as a Google Calendar here). This is the last week of the warm up period of my training plan. If you have been following along with my routine, you should be starting to feel pretty conditioned to getting out and doing your regular morning activity. of the things you’ll notice about my training plan is...

After two weeks of sticking to your routine, you should be starting to get used to it and you should start to notice a number of small changes in yourself; in your weight, your level of fitness and your general state of being. Sure, the runs get faster, longer and harder, but the hardest part is getting up and regularly donning your gear and getting out there and doing your exercise. I’ve always found that the winter is the easiest time...

I love the health tip I got this morning from the Sun-Herald. This article is attributed to Shannan Ponton and Michelle Bridges, trainers from The Biggest Loser. They say that a medium serve of fries will take 35 minutes to run off or 1.5 hours to walk off. (And that is just to get you back to where you were before you ate the fries.) Plus, if you had a hamburger instead of a home made chicken and salad sandwich, you’d also put on an...

The City 2 Surf has formed a part of my life for the last 39 years. That sounds like a long time doesn’t it! When I ran the City to Surf (now referred to as the City2Surf) in Sydney in 1971, it was promoted as a ‘family fun run’. The City2Surf has been held as an annual event in Sydney since the first run on September 5, 1971. It was conceived by the staff of The Sun (now The Sun-Herald) and inspired by the Bay to Breakers...

My mum emailed me these two old photos of me running as a kid. She is getting stuck into scanning old slides and finding all sorts of interesting old pics. One thing I immediately noticed in these two pics is that I used to stick my little pinkie out on my right hand when I was running… I never knew I did that! Now I’ll have to stop ribbing our young Alex who has a tendency to have his tongue out in every photo we have of him...