Ironstride Performance

Heysen 105 (114.5km) ✅

Official time of 19:22:39

What a roller coaster of a day. All types of weather, every emotion experienced, a variety of paces ran and walked. It wasn’t the outcome I wanted with many moments of despair, but also many highs that really made for a long exhausting day worthwhile. I’m glad I finished and I’m grateful for the experience. I wouldn’t have made it if it wasn’t for my crew and the many people that came out to see me as well as those who sent messages of encouragement throughout the day.

I especially wouldn’t have made it if it wasn’t for , thank you for supporting me not just on the day but for so many weeks of preparation. I’m lucky I have you by my side 😘

Now that it’s been a few days I’m keen to try something even bigger, but not for a while, maybe 2027.

I’ll still do some shorter trails in 2026, but it’s going to be the year for speed. Time to get fast 🏃💨

Heysen 105 training week 14/16

Possibly the biggest week of training I’ve ever had. I hit a single at 95% of my all time PRs for bench and deadlift during my biggest week of running ever, 82km total.

I ran Mt Bold Extra Long course (35km) with no taper and heavy deadlifts 2 days before, plus cardio and a 8km run the day before.

Running Mt Bold under fatigue was deliberate to help prepare for heysen 105 in 2 weeks. Simulating what it might feel like in the second half of the 115km. I ran Mt Bold in 3:45, which is great news for the time I’m aiming for with heysen…. just gotta triple the distance 👌

Now I’ll taper for 2 weeks to get to the start line feeling fresh for my biggest challenge so far.

Heysen 105 Training Week 12/16



Solid week of training last week. Let’s see if I can lift heavier and run further this week.

Heysen 105 Training week 10/16

Back to normal training the past week and managed to hit some good numbers for strength work (bench & deadlifts) and back up to 75km of running.

I’ve also joined in on a study for how predictive lactate threshold is of a race time. I did a lactate threshold test which they’ll be using to predict my city-bay time. I’ll now go out and send it on Sunday and they’ll use that data to compare. The LTHR test will also give me some useful numbers for my own training which is handy.

I hit a couple of big runs this weekend and feel great considering. I’ll take it easy this week so I can try get a big PB for city-bay, then I’ll have one final ramp up of volume for the last month of this training block.

Heysen 105 training week 8/16

Started this training week off with a complete rest day after Barossa marathon, first one of the training block. No running, cross training or strength training.

Had a 30% deload in running volume this week (totalling 56km). Kept just about everything else up in terms of intensity though.

Finished the week off with a solid 24km trail run around Sturt gorge and felt pretty awesome for only a week post marathon. Also accumulated just shy of 300km for the month, 20% increase from last month.