Tom’s Next Step

I’m off to a good start to the year, logging 80 km in the first four days of 2022. That’s more than I’ll average for the year, but I prefer to start well than to be playing catch up. I …Continue reading →

Happy New Year to everyone. Hopefully you’ll have a good experience this evening, although NYE is a lot less of a big deal the older you get. All the same, it’s something a bit different to the other nights of …Continue reading →

I’ve decided to try a different running shoe for a change. For more than ten years I’ve been running in mainly Nike with a bit of recent Hoka thrown in, although I had spent 25 years prior to that in …Continue reading →

I look like totalling in excess of 5,900 km this year. But the main thing is, for the first time ever, I will have run at least 100 km every single week of the year. I didn’t even manage that …Continue reading →

As is usual at this time of year, I’m taking it relatively easy in terms of my own running. December is traditionally sort of a month of rest, although I still cover a fair bit of ground. But the intensity …Continue reading →

As mentioned in the last post, I had concluded my South American transit by this time in 2012, and returned to Australia for a break. However, I was intermittently posting blogs, like the one below. The images below show the …Continue reading →

On this day nine years ago we were preparing to leave Buenos Aires after I’d completed my run across South America. The final parts of that run are documented below, including a photo of my leg after it was bitten …Continue reading →

By this date in 2012, I was nearing the end of my first two continents of the world run, being only 100 km or so from Buenos Aires. I had covered more than 15,000 km for the year to that …Continue reading →

More running through Argentina to read about and see today, including a video of a close encounter with a South American rattle snake.   Nov 27, 2012   Distance today = 50.00 km; Total distance = 15,019.03 km; Location = …Continue reading →

Hope you enjoy today’s world run memories. I was right in the middle of Argentina at this time in 2012. It was the flattest section of the whole journey, even flatter than the Nullarbor (which is not really all that …Continue reading →