Set One Achievable Goal How’s your visualisation exercise going? Have you tried day dreaming about how you are going to achieve just one thing every race or every training session? Is it easy to set just one achievable goal in your mind or do you start racing toward different goals and find yourself in a…
DetailsI recently purchased a copy of the Taste eatreal 17-minute meals cookbook. For those who wanted a copy of the recipe I made on our Noosa training camp this week either read below or click on the link. It was quick, easy and yum! Thank you Taste for pulling together a great book! I’m looking…
DetailsUsing your 3s Take yourself back to my first Mindfood post. Do you recall the 3s? Have you noticed anything on before, during or after your runs since completing the exercise? Have the 3s come to the forefront of you mind at times? Have you thought “I’m sore today”, “It’s cold today”, “I’ve got too…
DetailsIntroducing the 3s The beautiful human I can attribute any inroads I’ve made to my mental strength is the late Paulette Mifsud. We all miss her delicate personality and the way she made mental health homework easy. Prior to having the pleasure of working with Paulette over a decade ago, I was a basket case…
DetailsMy mum and my mother in law love to cook so we have been brought up with the education and experience of food being a positive element of a healthy life. This is the same education we try to instill on our son Pete, but boy is it hard with treats and advertising of treats…
DetailsIn 2019 we decided to take a break from running around and recover. Seven weeks ago we started the year with some shorter training workouts with the goal of racing as much as I can in 2019. Two parkruns kicked the heart and lungs into gear. What next… The opportunity to join the hundreds of…
DetailsI cannot tell you how many times I’ve felt inadequate when asked “You run a lot, do you do parkrun?” “Err no, I haven’t yet.” I always reply. The amount of times Lachlan and I have conquered that Coburg Lake hill would be too crazy to count, but I had not yet completed the ultimate…
DetailsAs a youngster I combined running, studying at university and a part time job and barely had a second to focus on recovery. From 18 to 28 I spent half of every year either injured or returning from injury (8 stress fractures and a few torn muscles later). As an older athlete I’ve learnt to…
DetailsI can’t tell you how many times I’ve bounced back from a setback, a knock back and a plain old you’re just not good enough. I’ve been told, ‘you’re not fast enough’ even after running 2:25 for a marathon, ‘you need to be faster’, ‘you need to finish higher’, ‘you aren’t pretty enough’, ‘you need…
DetailsWe are finally home. After a whirlwind 2018 which concluded with a silver medal at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, an 8th place at the New York City Marathon and moving into our new home -we are finally home! What better way to mark the arrival than with a story from 25 years ago! …
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