Two weeks before the start of the 2010 Sydney City2Surf, the organisers had to close entries when numbers reached 80,000. To manage a crowd of 80,000 on foot 14km through city streets and then get them back home is no mean achievement — congratulations to the Sun Herald and all of the organisers, sponsors and [...]
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Well, here we are Saturday morning on the day before the 39th City2Surf and it is time for my Number 1 tip to strip minutes from your City2Surf time. How to avoid the Vindaloo Line I just made that up… (I had a particularly hot vindaloo last night, and I know you don’t want to [...]
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The City2surf is only a week away. If you have been able to stick to the training plan, you are now about as ready as you are going to be, so this last week is a relaxing one. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, it just means you do a light workout every second day. [...]
If you intend to run the City2Surf, then with seven weeks to go, you’d be getting into the serious part of the training where we start to look at improving your running technique. See ‘Lifting your Game — Week 7’. If you are just starting out on a fitness routine and planning to either walk [...]
With seven weeks to go, you should be feeling a starting to feel a sense of achievement and hopefully you’ll also be getting comfortable with a the idea of monitoring the how far you walk. So, in stage two, we need maintain the routine but it is time to get a little further out of [...]
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