City2Surf 2010 – The World’s Biggest Fun Run
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 volunteers. This was a personal milestone for me – my 40th City2Surf – and it just gets bigger and better every year without loosing any of it’s character. The City2Surf is an ‘all in group fitness...
read moreCity2Surf 2010 is nearly upon us
Sunday August 8th will be the 40th running of Australia’s premier fun run, the Sun Herald City2Surf. It’s hard to believe that a year has gone by since I started blogging about my City2Surf training plan in 2009. Anyway, I had some great feedback from people last year via Facebook, Twitter and email, so I figure I might as well do it again this year. The training program I set last year is still online and I recommend this as a great start if you are just starting off and you are injury free and want to stay that way! I have a few...
read moreHave the City2Surf joggers been sucked into a vacuum?
In the weeks leading up to the Sydney City2Surf I noticed that there were more and more people out walking or jogging around the lake in the early morning. But since the event a week and a half ago, I’ve hardly seen anyone out and about. I did my jog around the lake this morning and I saw only one other person jogging and an old couple walking their dog. The post event vacuum and how to avoid it When you train with a very specific goal in mind ‘“ in this case, to run the City2Surf, we tend to become highly focused on that one...
read moreRunning up hills in training
When you are in training, don’t get disheartened if you have difficulty running up hills. I find that it doesn’t matter if you walk and jog up the hills; the most important thing is to do the distance. And when training, try to run up at least 50% of the hills ‘with effort’, but you can walk the rest. I find that it makes a big difference to my performance if I train with hills as opposed to training without them, but it doesn’t necessarily make a big difference whether I run all the way up or walk and jog up the...
read moreMy first City to Surf in 1971
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 Penrith, StMarys and Parramatta. We parked in College Street and then walked to Sydney Town Hall to get our registration sorted out. Everyone had to...
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