The road to good performance starts early, the saying goes “Titles are won in the Gym” is really all you have to know. Today when I was reading about Rugby League Champion Cooper Cronk, joining the Brisbane Lions A.F.L. team on their pre-season High Altitude camp in Arizona, it made reinforced the importance of solid […]
This was the first time I’ve woken up early to have a meal before the marathon. The guide is to eat 3 hours before the gun, so I ate a fairly basic rice meal, and had bananas and honey sandwiches at 4am. Then I did a walk and went back to bed. I have to […]
This famous quote is also from the early 1990’s cult classic movie Days of Thunder. When Craig ‘Buster’ Mottram used this to describe how he had been tripped in the final of the Commonwealth Games 1500m in 2006, an event that he was favoured to win, it symbolised the capacity that a true champion has […]
Last week I read a great quote by John Landy, the second man to break the 4 minute mile. Landy says “The mind sells the body” for better or worse this is always the case. When he was training to break the mile barrier Landy was heavily involved in university study and would often train […]
With the latest spate of people entering Marathon/Half Marathon/10km/Triathlon, you name it someone’s in it, I find many people get too flustered in the race week and talk themselves out of a good race. My trick is to keep it in perspective, because honestly, no one really cares how well you go. So don’t stress […]
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