In the past 5 years, I had never considered the mental side of sport. For me, I had only considered that if you taper, you’ll be fresh and if you’re fresh, you’ll run well. This seemed to work for my 3 years as an undergraduate at university, where I...
This was the final race of what had been a very successful XC season for me. Two wins out of two in the New South Wales state champs (12k and 7.5k) and also some great races on the road in between put me as a favourite to win the...
Hi all,
My last blogs have just been overviews and updates about what I have been up to, so this time I though I might add in some info about my training as well because I know that’s the kind of thing I find interesting when reading things like this.
As...
Politics, tulips, Stromlo, cyclists, crazy science museums.... Yep, you guessed it- hello
Canberra! For the next 5 weeks, the Nation's Capital is where I'll call home. Embarking
on a physiotherapy clinical placement at The Canberra Hospital is exciting and a little
bit scary. For someone who demands a lot from her body,...
I am writing this on my flight out of Launceston after what was my first experience at the Australian Cross country champs. I had been running a few local cross country races in preparation to this race but after walking the water filled course Friday afternoon I realised there...
It is well known that diet plays a crucial role in sports performance so over the last few weeks I have been seeing a sports nutritionist to help get the most out of my training. My good mate, and fellow runner, Ryan Jackson is qualified with a Masters in...
Wow, what a day! I'd never won a really big race and I think winning the City2Surf, a race with 85,000 entrants, may just about usurp my Berlin 10k win dressed as a stormtrooper. Just about. I knew I had as good a chance of winning this race as...
G'day Runners tribe readers
I hope that your respective winter or summer training, dependant on what part of the world your in, is coming along nicely. I must apologise for my absence on the blog front. However with things winding up overseas now I can’t help but take note of...
Mountain running alternates between all up hill courses and up and down courses, ranging between 12 and 14km in length. This year is an up and down year, with both the Australian and World Mountain Champs being held on a 4km course, 2km down, then 2km up, with the...
From where I was positioned with my head in downward-facing dog, leg and foot flexed
in the air at some humanly impossible angle and sweat dripping up my nose, the idea of
running around in circles suddenly didn't seem so crazy. In fact, quite a logical and natural
thing to be doing...
