Ultramarathoner Scott Jurek during his Appalachian Trail world record-breaking run. Picture: Luis Escobar Today is like Christmas Eve for me. I’m at ‘five-year-old waiting for Santa’ level of excitement because tonight I get to meet my running hero. That’s right, I just compared Scott Jurek to Santa Claus. I’m slightly…
My running coach has a bit of a rule about not running anything that you haven’t trained for. It’s generally just not a good idea for your body and I’m guessing it doesn’t do much for your confidence either when you’re halfway through and want to quit. But when have…
It’s been a while. Granted I’ve been slightly busy. New job, new apartment, new furniture and countless trips to utility service centres with my passport to prove that I actually exist. Generally slashing and burning my savings like a kid who’s finally gotten control of their trust fund. It’s…
We’re not locking you in, we’re locking them out I’m a week older but it feels like I’ve gained about a thousand year’s worth of Living-in-the-US points just from the seemingly simple tasks of finding an apartment, buying new furniture and moving in. Yes, that’s right. After exactly 10 days…
I got there in the end. Worth it. When I woke up this morning I had a plan. It was a good one. Train in to the city, go on a bike tour out to the Golden Gate bridge, eat delicious things, come home. Simple. Stealthy. Effective. Foolproof even. You…
Who’s up for a chicken tikka naan open sandwich? I’ve taken a big fat scary leap. If I was the statistical type I’d say it was 7432 kilometres (as the crow flies) worth of big and fat. Jumping from Sydney, Australia to San Francisco shouldn’t be scary – we both…
