Finished my 43rd City2Surf

Finished my 43rd City2Surf

Aug 15, 2013 | City2Surf, Doing Now

Only Seven More to Go It was another perfect sunny City2Surf day in Sydney. I was pleased with my preparation and expected to run the 14k fairly comfortably in under 80 minutes, but things started to go wrong on the Wednesday before the event. I went for a slow...
Back In My Day… A Different Perspective

Back In My Day… A Different Perspective

Jul 24, 2013 | City2Surf, Reminiscing

It has been a busy few weeks for me, peppered with media interviews about the City2Surf and my upcoming book, Begin With The End In Mind: The Untold Story Of The City2Surf. I’ve been interviewed by The Canberra Times and The Sun Herald and chatted with Dicko and Sarah...

City2Surf 2010 – The World’s Biggest Fun Run

Aug 11, 2010 | City2Surf

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...

Cut minutes off your City2Surf time in only 24 hrs

Aug 6, 2010 | City2Surf

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...

One week to go – Relax

Aug 4, 2010 | City2Surf

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...

City to Surf training plan – Stage Two

Jun 12, 2010 | City2Surf

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...