Category Archives: sport

Blessed Saturday

Great weather, good fun run, awesome friends. Contented.

Boston brewin’

Two weeks to go before I leave for the Boston Marathon. Getting very excited…
Still keeping up the swims cos I find they are great for tuning my aerobic/anaerobic system while saving my legs (I am a lazy kicker).
Today’s workout:
400 warm up
10x 100 on 1.45 (av 1.30-1.35)
100 easy
10x 100 on 2.00 (climbin out of pool [...]

FitFish Wednesday

I didn’t have high hopes for today’s swim, given Saturday’s massive effort. I had done a 30min recovery run on Monday and another 13k yesterday, but both at a very leisurely pace. I didn’t think my body was ready to be pushed.
FitFish Wednesdays are meant to be the hardest sessions of the week, but I [...]

Organic Hobo

OH Episode 1 (Pilot): “A Difference A Day Makes” from Organic Hobo on Vimeo.

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Lantau50

Wow that hurt. I mean, relatively speaking, it was only 51k. That distance on road I could prolly run in about 4.5 hours. The Lantau50 took me 7h 29min and a whole new world of pain, no thanks to the 2,934m elevation gain over technical trail.
But we were indeed blessed with great weather. The [...]