Made the local Perth news webpage. It’s a start….

First time in ages I set the alarm for pre 6am and ran a pre-work,  pre-dawn 10k. Sometimes it’s a struggle to get out of a warm bed to run on a cold morning (well cold in Perth anyway). What makes me make the leap of faith is I’ve never finished a run and regretted it, I’ve always been happy I actually made the effort and got out of bed. No change this morning, so close to resetting the alarm but got up and ran a nice steady 10k while watching the sunrise over star swamp. It really doesn’t get any better….

You know the email ‘call to arms’. 10K easy, recovering from <insert race> or <big week last week> etc.. With my lunchtime running buddies I receive these emails all the time, promising nice relaxing runs all about recovery and the ambience of like minded individual doing what they enjoy. Don’t be fooled, somewhere in the group there will be someone who has not read the email and then it’s on.. Today our 10k easy ended up with a 4:16min/k average, just under 43 minutes. Easy for Mo Farrah maybe,  not me.! It was a glorious day and we had a tail wind before the hills but seriously…

I run with a group called the “St. Georges Terrace Running Club” as we are all based on, you guessed it, St. Georges Terrace in Perth. We’ve even had some tops made, pretty serious.

Attached is a shot of the usual suspects on one of our many pre-marathon ‘pb runs’ as we call them…

It must have been the pressure of now being a ‘running blogger’ but in-between blogging and getting to grips with wordpress, themes, widgets, categories and all things blogging, I managed to run 14 times and clock up 166.6k.

All tracked on Strava. Remember one of my golden rules. Track everything, time distance, pace, heart rate, elevation, cadence. It’s all valuable ammunition which you can draw upon as you improve. Stave is life, the rest is details.

Not rocket science really but always nice to have your ideas confirmed, if only by the Sunday Times in Perth. May inspire me to go for a run once in a while……

Hello and welcome to the ‘ramblings of a runner’. I hope to install in you my passion for all things running and also encourage a healthier lifestyle and general wellness. Exciting times. It has taken me the best part of 4 hours to work out how to buy a domain, link it to software built for blogging and type this first post. So lets publish this and then I’m off to bed to recover.