Last Friday was the reunification of the mighty Bondi Honey Badgers. We raced in the inaugural G.I.O. Youngcare Budgie Bolt. Basically you were a pair of swimming togs (chunga’s) and run 5km in the C.B.D. while office jocks are making their way to work and I can tell you that they didn’t mind giving the […]
St. Patrick’s Day, 1990 (that’s March 17, if you’re not a Catholic). One of the greatest fighters in history and a young challenger to his throne. This was the biggest little-man’s fight money could buy. Two undefeated champions on a collision course in the Junior Welterweight Division (140 pounds or 63.5kg). Classy American boxer Meldrick […]
The weekend was huge. Bowes Fitness’ favourite antipodean, Blake Rankin, competed in the Los Angeles Marathon, on Sunday 17 March (St. Patrick’s Day). This was a certified qualification race for the Boston Marathon in 2014. Boston is the world’s oldest and most revered marathon event. A race where the brave deeds of legends […]
Being a coach and athlete I’m always looking for different drills and sessions to add variety to training. A very old painter once told me that “variety is the spice of life,” and maybe it is. If you’ve had a ham sandwich everyday for 20 years, you’d go nuts for some vegemite occasionally. In any […]
Training has been heating up for a some of our athletes with events not too far around the corner. In some cases injuries have started to emerge while others are struggling to execute instructions because fatigue is plaguing them. I can tell you personally that after a big weekend of racing I have had the […]
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