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In a wide expansive landscape, running into a headwind! The field got strung out early because of this. I basically ran the entire 85km solo, exchanging a few words with people as they passed me, or as I then passed them. A strange day but happy with the outcome. 3rd Male in 8:31

Loving all the Dune chat on my feed this weekend! Dune part three can’t come soon enough

Happy Halloween

15km of trails this morning. Legs have lost a lot of conditioning on the hills. A good hit out. Happy Halloween 🎃 👻 🫈

A bittersweet end to the weekend. Went live on a huge data platform migration, months of planning etc.. but then had my lead data scientist resign. Poached by another company. Time for a celebration and commiserations drink 🥃

Steps 3, 5 and 8 can’t be stressed enough!

For my male running friends. Wearing tights, what’s your rule? With shorts or without?

Are South Africa going to declare before lunch. Aussies under the pump after what looks like a really bad decision at the toss. #AUSVSSA

Found this banger in the office library today. Loved some of the other x files novels. @XFilesAesthetic

14km of trails yesterday and 12km tonight back on the roads. First 50km week in a little while, trying to get back into consistent running. The temperature was ok tonight but the humidity 🥵 straight into the pool when I got home to cool off.

Change of running plans this morning. Little dude woke up and vomited everywhere. Clean up and looked after him. Finally got out and boy it was sticky 🥵 First trail run in a few weeks, moderate 14km of single track.

Sometimes it’s the little things which make a difference. Working in one of our remote offices and just noticed all the meeting rooms are named after Qld mountains. As a trail runner and someone who likes to explore I love it.

Managing some back pain and have found the heat patches work really well. The irony of buying these at the shops, they are on the lowest shelf. Making me bend over… Feels like a cruel joke from the supermarket

Today I was inducted to the 25 year club at @IAGAust Sharing a lunch with some incredible human beings with such vast experience in the insurance industry. A highlight was the yearbook which includes some lovely comments from colleagues past and present

I once had a kookaburra drop a keelback onto my back deck. Landed right near the kids. Thankfully it was already dead. Birds are cheeky

The curse of the ageing runner. Tweaked my back somehow on the weekend and now struggling. Just as I was planning a new training block… Chiro tonight has helped a little, hopefully back jogging in a few days.

Maddinson and Head, this could be the first opening pair for Australia both sporting a moustache in a long time 😄

Almost had a code brown on my easy run last night, thank god for public toilets being open after hours. Spot the km’s where I had to walk clenching 😄 The Japanese curry dinner choice is now being reconsidered as a pre run meal

10km on trail single track this morning. Post my 100 mile DNF I’ve been slack with training, trying to get back into a routine. First goal, sub 20 5k. Hope to knock that over by summer. Looking at 2027 races and have a 50km and two 100km races penciled in. Let’s go!