Spud On The Run
Blog URL http://spudontherun.wordpress.com
Located Sydney, New South Wales Australia
Tags fitness, diet, weight loss, martial arts, kung fu, crossfit, health
A former couch potato's journey into the world of fitness.
Latest Blog Posts
- The City 2 Surf on Aug 9, 2009 in Fitness City to Surf running Sydney
Today I completed my very first City 2 Surf – a 14km fun run from the Sydney CBD to Bondi Beach. My preparation for this event was marred by injury, first I developed tendinitis in my right foot which was closely followed by an inflamed Achil...
- Big Thank You on Aug 3, 2009 in Fitness
I just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who congratulated me on my win at AMAC. All your wonderful comments mean a great deal to me. I am so lucky to have such wonderful friends – yes all of you who read my blog, but who I have not...
- Competing At AMAC on Aug 2, 2009 in Fitness Kung Fu Martial arts
If you told me at the beginning of the year that today I would be competing in my first martial arts tournament, I would have laughed at you. I would have told you that there was no way I could even do martial arts, let alone compete in a tournamen...
- Stating The Obvious on Jul 27, 2009 in Diet Iced coffee Weight gain
This article just appeared on SMH about the “startlingly” fact that ice coffee drinks contain a lot of calories. Now look at this drink and tell me would anyone honestly think that this drink is healthy?? Look at the amount of cream for...
- Oh…crap on Jul 23, 2009 in Fitness Kung Fu
Somehow at training tonight my Sifu (instructor) managed to talk me into going in a tourament next Sunday. I know I need to start going into touraments to get competition experience, but I wasn’t quite expecting to start this soon and to have...
- Out Injured… Again on Jul 17, 2009 in Fitness achilles tendon injury
I think I have broken the world record of the fastest time someone can re-injure themselves – 24 hours. My tendinitis in my right foot had resolved itself and was feeling great, so on Monday night I went, armed with some great running songs,...
- The Power of Good Songs To Run To on Jul 13, 2009 in Fitness running music
I went for my first 5km run since developing tendinitis in my right foot three weeks ago and my foot felt really good, no pain at all. I ran it in 38:07 which is 16 seconds off my PB of 37:51. Not too bad for someone who has been sitting on their...
