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Posted on Friday, 5 April 2013 3:49 PM
This was a good race, even though I only managed to get 2 hours sleep due to the 2am start time! Neil was once again my support and the race had 7 10.5km loops around the Glasshouse Mountain trails.
There were about 20-30 runners doing the 70km race (about 300 runners in total for all races). Our race started at 2am in nice temperatures with a perfect sky full of stars! I also got to really try out my Petzl Nao headlamp (properly) which was pretty damn cool, I suggest that any night runner should get one! |
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Posted on Monday, 4 March 2013 2:35 PM
On the 23rd of last month (February) I took part in the Taupo Length of lake race. When I say took part thats what I mean, I wasn't there to race, to beat any personal best or to try for a top 10 or top 5 position. The reason is because I was very, very unprepared and under trained for this race. I have never dreaded a race so much however it was on my list of goals for this year and I knew I was going to have to give it my best shot (to finish)!
The race started at 7am and even though it was Summer it felt like a winter morning, having not been to New Zealand in over two years I was very much used to my warm and humid Queensland weather. |
Andrew Hedgman, Marathon, Running, Training, Ultramarathon, Ultramarathon Running, Race, Grace, Grace Miller, Length of Lake, New Zealand, Taupo
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Posted on Tuesday, 15 January 2013 2:32 PM
 The Hares and Hounds 55km trail race was my first race for 2013. I have 11 more races for the year so about one Ultra every month. This race was always just to see where I was with my training, I had completed all of my training runs on very flat pathways around where I live, however I did manage to get my mileage up a great deal with my longest training runs being 40 and 50 km only a couple of weeks before the race. Trail runs, however, are always a whole lot different than running on flat, smooth concrete paths so I knew I was in for a little bit of pain! |
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Posted on Thursday, 13 December 2012 4:55 PM
2012 has been one of the best years of my life, I ran 1000 km from Brisbane to Sydney, trained in Athens, Greece and raced in the grueling Lycian Way ultramarathon over in Turkey!
As amazing as this year has been I have decided to have a less chaotic and more structured 2013. In saying that though I do plan to race in one ultramarathon for every month of the year, including one 100 mile (160 km) race! Some people may think this is a bit extreme (they are probably right) but for me it feels comfortable. |
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Posted on Tuesday, 9 October 2012 9:44 AM
What an amazing adventure I had on the other side of the world! As much as I would love to go into detail about it all I just don't have the energy to sit and write so I will give you a brief overview :)
Neil and I arrived in Istanbul after landing and got to spend the entire day there looking around and exploring, we visited some great sites including the underground columns and the Museums which were amazing! We also went to the markets, that was an experience on its own.
The next day we flew to Athens where we spend nine days and had the most fantastic time. |
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Posted on Wednesday, 19 September 2012 11:04 PM
A very late blog update, I have had no time to do one as we have been super busy here in Greece. Tomorrow will be our final day here before flying back to Istanbul in Turkey. We will spend two nights in Istanbul and then Neil will be flying back home to Brisbane and I will fly out to the start of the race. Exciting times!
We have had the most amazing time here, visiting all sorts of ancient ruins around Athens and in nearby towns including Delphi, one of the most amazing places, it was also once considered the center of the Earth! |
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Posted on Monday, 27 August 2012 10:29 AM
Last week was a good training week. I managed to pump out three big training runs with a 40km run on both Monday and Friday and a longer 50km run on Wednesday. Both 40km runs were nice and easy however on the 50 km run I did seem to struggle a bit in the last 10km. That was probably due to pushing myself a bit too hard at the start, I still managed to do it in under 5 hours with a time of 4 hours 46 mins which is alright I guess!
 (A sunset I captured while walking home) |
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Posted on Friday, 27 July 2012 6:43 PM
Well this week was less productive than I planned out to be, work seemed to get in the way a bit but I did manage to do a pretty good core workout which I am still hurting from and also two 45km bike rides, both on the same day so 90 km in total, I felt pretty good the whole way even after pushing myself pretty hard so my endurance is still up there :D I plan to do a 50km run this week with a couple of smaller runs and another bike ride or two, oh and lets not forget the core training! |
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Posted on Tuesday, 17 July 2012 12:53 PM
So I'm only four days late with my new blog entry, but that should be of no surprise to anyone that reads these haha! Right now the Badwater Ultramarathon is happening over in Arazona in Death Valley. This particular Ultra is known as the toughest foot race in the world, not just because of the distance but also because of the exteme heat, I think it's around 50 degress celcius at the moment, crazy but it has been a dream of mine to do it for a while now! Dean Karnazes is back for his 10th time, I met Dean back in 2009 and have kept in contact since, a really nice guy! |
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Posted on Tuesday, 10 July 2012 10:04 PM
I can't believe it has been ten day's since I reached Sydney after fifteen day's of running! I still can't get over how great the whole thing went, it was fantastic! I received word today that I was on the front page of the Hauraki Herald in New Zealand, that paper covers the town that I grew up in. I was happy to hear that as I still have family and a lot of friends back there so they will be able to see what crazy things I have been up to. The article is on my 'Brisbane to Sydney Run' page. |
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