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 [...]
After a few weeks of regular walking you should be feeling a little fitter and you should be starting to get used to the routine of wearing the pedometer and aiming for your target daily step count. So far we have been walking a regular 12,000 steps per day. Now, with two months to go [...]
Hats off to everyone who have managed to keep their step count over 10,000 a day in the conditions of the last two weeks. Most of the people I know of who are following the New Beginning City2Surf training program are averaging 13,000 to 14,000 steps a day, which is excellent considering many of you [...]
Nine Weeks to Go With nine weeks until the City2Surf, you still have plenty of time to get into condition for the event (but don’t wait a moment longer). In the first week we set ourselves a target of 10,000 steps per day. This is the minimum the experts tell us we should all be [...]
Yesterday I met with 2009 Sydney City2Surf winner Michael Shelley and held the winner’s trophy for the first time. Not something I ever imagined I’d be doing! In 2009, as I was just reaching the halfway point at the top of ‘Heartbreak Hill’, Michael was crossing the line in a time of 41’02”. It staggers [...]