Tom’s Next Step

I tried another 1500 metre time trial this morning, but only managed to go one second faster than on Monday – 5:34. I feel quite ‘body tired’. I think I might need a bit of a rest. I’ve been doing …Continue reading →

Ran a comfortable 1500 metres in 5:35 this morning.  More of a training run than a time trial. I’m a bit mindful of over doing it. For some reason, I often end up with a heel injury around September of …Continue reading →

Running still presents surprises from time to time, even after all these years. Having run my 10 km time trial on Monday, I thought I’d reintroduce myself to the pace of a fast 1 km today. I didn’t expect too …Continue reading →

It’s 8 years today since I finished my run around the world at the Sydney Opera House. So I “celebrated” the occasion with a 10 km time trial, managing 42:24. I negative split the distance, with 5 km times of …Continue reading →

As I mentioned in the last post, it’s my intention to run a 10 km time trial on Monday (if the weather is decent). For that reason, I didn’t want a hard session today, so instead I just did a …Continue reading →

When I turned 60 earlier this year, I wasn’t entirely certain if I would ever be able to run 5 km again in under 20 minutes. My all-time PB is 16:34 from the mid 80s, but I hadn’t run 5 …Continue reading →

Today’s time trial was a ‘lap of Centennial Park’ – the exact same distance around a track. The real Centennial Park is too crowded these days with people exercising during lockdown. I’d have been continuously dodging bodies. Anyhow, the last …Continue reading →

I had a crack at 3 km today, managing a time of 11:36 (3:56, 3:58, 3:42). That qualifies now as my over 60 PB for that distance (my all time PB is 9:22 from a track race in 1990). I …Continue reading →

I was only going to do a few sprints this morning, but changed my mind and ran another 2 km time trial. I’m usually tired on a Friday, having done the bulk of my weekly running in the previous few …Continue reading →

Today’s time trial was over 2 km, which I covered in 7:40 (3:53, and 3:47). I intend to do a few longer time trials over the coming weeks to increase my stamina and set some benchmarks that I can improve …Continue reading →