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Catch up

By 6000 | 6000 | April 12, 2012

A few things to document here today: 1. Last night I did my first run since the Two Oceans Half on Saturday. I’ve never had someone repeatedly beating my calf muscles with a scaffolding pole, but I would imagine that what I felt going up the hill between 3-4 kilometres last night would be pretty [...]

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Meanwhile, in Newcastle…

By 6000 | 6000 | April 11, 2012

Yikes. This is turning into a beer ad blog. OK, not really, but as some of you will know, I spent some of my student years at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Coming from Northern England, I was delighted to find that Newcastle was just like a concentrated version of… well… Northern England. The Geordie people [...]

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Turtley important

By 6000 | 6000 | April 10, 2012

The 2 Oceans Aquarium today reissued its annual warning about what to do with stranded baby turtles you may find on local beaches. Not only does this give me a great excuse for a 2 Oceans Aquarium themed quota photo: Bigger on black here. It also reminds me that I did my own take on [...]

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Just Did It

By 6000 | 6000 | April 7, 2012

I couldn’t have wished for a better race this morning. Aside from the weather, which hit hard as I headed up the infamous Southern Cross Drive, making everyone look like they had literally been dumped in a swimming pool, everything went according to my plan, such as it was. I finished my first (and last) [...]

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Run

By 6000 | 6000 | April 6, 2012

Hmm. Yes. In one of the worst kept secrets ever, it seems that I have inadvertently signed up for the Two Oceans Half Marathon this weekend. By that, I don’t mean that I signed up this weekend. No, I signed up ages ago, when this weekend didn’t actually exist and I thought that there were [...]

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