It’s around a month until I go to Falls Creek to do a solid block of altitude training so this week I’ve started to do some faster workouts.

It feels good to be heading in the right direction. The Falls Creek camp will be a lot of fun this year. All the elite middle to long distance runners in Australia head to Falls Creek over the New Year period and I always have a good time catching up with people from all parts of Australia that I don’t see that often. The Melbourne Track Club is also bringing over several imports including some Brits and even a couple of Irishmen, Dave Campbell and Paul Robinson, who are both close friends of mine and great for a bit of banter. The Falls Creek village is around 1600m elevation with most of the runs at around 1700m. It’s not that high, but high enough to get benefit I believe, and even if not, still a very good training camp.

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