Tom’s Next Step

I reached an interesting, though somewhat esoteric, milestone today. Actually, the only way I know about it is because my running log spreadsheet provides all sorts of trivial information, and this is one of them – today I reached 13,000 …Continue reading →

I’m in Darwin this weekend for the annual Pewter Mug Day. You may recall we celebrated the same day in 2013 in Streaky Bay in South Australia, during my world run. I was a bit worried that the heat and …Continue reading →

Today marks a big anniversary. It’s five years today since I finished my run around the world at the Sydney Opera House. It had been 622 days since I started from the same location. It’s certainly a bit eerie leaving …Continue reading →

I churned out another 3:30 km during my run this morning. I felt that was pretty decent given the 130 km I ran last week. That was the biggest week I’ve had since the Big Red Run in June last …Continue reading →

I ran a kilometre in 3:29 this morning, a new recent personal best (my all time best 1 km is 2:37, from back in 1983 when I was 22). And the most pleasing thing about today was that I was …Continue reading →