Coach Thoughts: Gaining from Adversity
Coach Thoughts: Building your Running for the long haul.
Coach Thoughts: How to re-focus and get back on track.
Coach Thoughts: The Shape of Things
Coach Thoughts: Don’t be ‘Karen.'
Coach Thoughts: Training = Workout + Recovery
Thursday Thoughts: Data + Feedback
Take a Free Hit in 2021
In some forms of cricket, the rule makers have introduced the idea of a 'free hit.’ This is basically one ball where you can’t get out, you can’t lose. What usually happens is that the person batting throws caution to the wind and swings as hard as possible, knowing that there is a capped down-side to the situation. The worst that can happen is that they don’t score.
If you fail, you learn. Sometimes…
Insta-Twit-Book is full of people who throw around motivational quotes and excerpts from great books. I’m definitely a fan of a good quote and I follow certain people, just to get these things delivered into my feed. There are a fair few quotes on the topic of failure, its learnings, and how we can then use it to ultimately succeed, particularly if you are following serial entrepreneurs.
This is all well and good, but I am also a big fan of experiencing things in order to learn them properly. So in order to learn from failure, you have to fail in person and experience that first hand. The challenge is that most people are not brought up that way so we actively avoid failure and feel judged on our failures. Failure is emotionally tough, dents our ego and so we take the safer option. Very few people enjoy failing.
10 Local Businesses to Help Your Endurance Activities in 2021
2020 has been a rough year for a lot of businesses who have had to adapt, dig deep and some even close their doors for portions of the year due to COVID. It’s hard to comprehend the level of stress that goes on as a small business owner at a time like this, if you haven’t been in their shoes. As a small business ourselves, we give a shit about small businesses, particularly those in the running and endurance sports space and really want them to do well. We can’t do much, but what we can do is support the businesses who support us and our runners. So, with that in mind, here’s 10 businesses that we love, that help our runners and that we are excited about watching in 2021. Check them out, you won’t regret it!
Thursday Thoughts: The right upgrade for your running
You are where you are and that's a great place to start.
When I start coaching people, I often say to them "You are where you are and that's a great place to start." Its a reminder to people that they can't rush the process of changing their body, and that they need to be honest with themselves about whatever their starting point is.
When Sera approached me to start our '5 weeks to 5km' Training Plan recently, she was the one playing these words back to me.
I coached Sera to do New York Marathon a couple of years ago…
Thursday Thoughts: Movement is Medicine
10 Road Marathons To Train For in 2021
It’s around that time of year where we start signing off from work and thinking about the year that is to come. This year, despite all of the tough times, is no exception. In fact, perhaps more so than ever, us runners are looking forward to getting back to racing, back to consistent training routines and less threat of race cancellations due to natural disasters or global pandemics. Judging from race directors and the increase in advertising for races around Australia, there is now more confidence than at any point over the last 6 months, that we will get races going ahead in 2021.