GNW Training – The day train to Patonga
This run used to be our staple ‘final long run’ before the big dance three weeks out. Now, it’s just another regular training weekend run as the stakes for places gets higher each year. From Yarramalong through to Patonga is known as the ‘back-half’ of the course and roughly 70kms in length. Technically it’s not … Read more
GNW Training – 11 weeks to go
It’s getting serious now. GNW is but nine or so ‘proper’ training weeks away and it’s fair to say that the meat and drink of the training is being fully consumed. The gentler warm-up runs have been done, we’re now head-first into business and that means out and back from Cedar Brush track head to … Read more
GNW Training Week One – The Somersby to Yarramalong Pain Train
You know that trail running is popular when 13 people turn up for a training run ahead of this year’s biggest trail ultra, the Great North Walk 100 miler. What’s even more staggering about this is that it three times the amount of people who actually finished the race in its first year of operation … Read more
The Magnificent Malverns and more GNW thoughts/predictions
If you’re ever in the UK, I think this is one place you should come and visit if you’re keen on a 20-30km trail run. I headed up there today for what was to be my very first proper trail run in the UK. I only took up running seriously when I moved to Australia, … Read more
Good hurtin’ at the Glasshouse 50
Dan B Race Report In years gone by, the Glasshouse 50km event otherwise known as the Flinders Tour which incorporates a 10km and 30km run has in the main stayed within the confines of local Queensland runners as it’s much bigger cousin, the Glasshouse 100′s tend to be the drawcard for us people south of the border. … Read more
The 6ft track pain train and training thoughts for GNW – Dan B
A week before the Glasshouse 50km race, I decided to head back up to the Blue Mountains after a number of weeks on the Great North Walk. There were a few reasons for this, namely to have a change of scenery, but to also run on more runnable terrain and open fire trail. The Glasshouse … Read more
The Brooklyn to Berowra Quad-Basher
To mix things up a little this week, Darrel, Gordi and I headed up to Brooklyn for an out and back to Berowra over a lower part of the GNW course, and what is also the start and first two sections of the Sydney Trailwalker course. I haven’t done this part of the course for … Read more
Dan B Training Update
It’s a bugger when you get a cold that straddles two training weeks as such, which was what happened to me the other week, which meant two relatively ‘low’ weeks of training with just 80kms in each. Having not done anything until Wednesday of last week, I decided the best way to get back into … Read more
