R16 Blog: It’s Crunch Time
It’s less than 50 days to go till race day. And, keeping in mind that it takes about 21 days for our bodies to properly adapt to new training, we only have […]
Tag Archives: marathon pacing
How NOT to Die in the Queenstown Marathon
By Hayden Shearman // Compared to the mountains that surround it, the Queenstown Marathon course looks decidedly flat. Its meandering riverside trails, long straight country roads, and million dollar lakefront […]
How to Run a PB at the Auckland Marathon
By Hayden Shearman // Despite its hills and infamous bridge, the Auckland Marathon (and half) are actually great courses for nailing a personal best time. But you do need to have […]
Race Review: Jackie’s big PR at Sydney Marathon
Jaclyn Lee has run a whopping 15 marathons. She’s originally from America but is currently living and working in NZ, which is allowing her to sample some of the race […]
The Mistress and the Villain: Queenstown Marathon Review
By Hayden Shearman // Sitting in the back of a St. John’s ambulance at the 35.5k mark is not how I envisaged finishing my fifth marathon. Five minutes earlier I […]
The Battle of the Bridge: An Open Letter to TempoFit Runners
By Hayden Shearman // Ahead of the Auckland Marathon I wanted to write a little motivation piece for the runners I coach and for the 80-odd TempoFit-ers who joined us for our Spring […]
The Battle of the Bridge: Hills of the Auckland Marathon
By Hayden Shearman // One of the many frustrating things about running is the incredibly vague and contradicting uses of the terms “hilly”, “undulating”, “rolling”, and “flat”. Every runner has a […]
The Battle of the Bridge: One Week Out
By Hayden Shearman // Wow it’s hard to believe that we’re inside two weeks to go till the great dance. The time when Aucklanders don their running shoes by the […]
2012 Auckland Marathon Results Analysed
The time differences between the two halves of runners’ marathons tells us a lot about how they performed at last year’s Auckland Marathon. I say to the runners I coach […]
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