The first month of the Gold Coast Marathon campaign was already approaching the rear vision mirror as the Vigor crew ramped up the intensity at training.

With the Easter long weekend approaching, the Gold Coast Marathon training block was in full swing entering its’ third week.

Week two of the Gold Coast Marathon build coincided with Formula One rolling back into town for the first Australian Grand Prix since 2019.

The summer of fun is over and it’s time to knuckle down once more for a marathon campaign, with the countdown to Gold Coast, on July 2-3 depending which distance you’re aiming for, now underway.

The dust has well and truly settled on the 2021 Melbourne Marathon, and I finally feel compelled to recount my thoughts on the race which didn’t deliver a PB despite the satisfaction of running another official marathon.

Melbourne Marathon race week has finally arrived and after everything we’ve been through, the goal is to enjoy each day to the fullest until the one we’ve been waiting for.

With the longest run of the condensed Melbourne build in the bag, it was all downhill from here.

The week featured several personal milestones which were satisfying in light of the adversity we’ve known all too well in recent times.

The week ended with misadventure yet the gains were made as Vigor battled through formidable conditions at the track with the Melbourne Marathon taper around the corner.

A week featuring one of the toughest workouts I’ve known, only a month awaited until the Melbourne Marathon at its’ conclusion.

For the first full week after we’d committed to Melbourne, it was timely for the post TT malaise to have been shaken.

Five weeks out, it all feels very real at this point!

A lingering recovery from the marathon time trial on October 10 meant that a definitive commitment to the Melbourne Marathon on December 12 hadn’t been a foregone conclusion. The exit from hard lockdown kickstarted the run to Melbourne…

The moment which seemed like it’d never occur many times over the past two years, was finally realised at the Albert Park ‘marathon’ time trial on October 10.

What to do when your marathon goals keep being punted further down the line.