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 [...]
Continue reading about City2Surf 2010 – The World’s Biggest Fun Run
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 [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading about Have the City2Surf joggers been sucked into a vacuum?
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 [...]
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 [...]