The Friday before the race I travelled to from my base in Nijmegen (below) to Amsterdam to settle in and finish off all last minute preparations. The race hotel was perfectly situated near a park, which worked out great with only a couple of easy runs to do before the race.

As the plane took off for LA on Friday any soreness that I had from City to Surf had disappeared, I was looking forward to arriving in Boulder and getting stuck into training for the next 6 weeks before heading to Europe for my taper and the marathon that awaits.

Before leaving the gold coast to head to Sydney for the city to surf I checked the weather forecast and it showed that it was going to rain. I was still hoping that it wasn’t as there was still 2 days till race day and anything is possible with the weather these days. I am not getting my excuses out early but every runner is different and this runner does not like the rain.

With an expected 85,000 people to race in this year’s City to Surf it is going to be a very big event for a lot of people. Whether they be out there challenging themselves to run personal bests or just to have fun all having the same goal of getting from The Sydney CBD to Bondi Beach.