Sadly there will be no New York Marathon this year due to the natural disaster that occurred recently. Hopefully NYC can get back on it’s feet before too long and we’ll see a huge NYC Marathon in 2013. Now there has been plenty of noise around about people’s interest in running a Marathon in 2013. […]
Today I was reading about the legendary swimming coach Laurie Lawrence. A favourite exercise that he would give to his charges was to strap on a weights belt and jump into the diving pool, with hands above their heads they would kick for half an hour, in order to keep their head above water. “Human […]
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 […]
It’s 2008, Hawthorn have just ambushed the legendary Geelong team to win the A.F.L. Premiership. The Hawks with a young team and a young coach were packing the talent and a game plan that left Geelong and the competition for dead. That same year over at Essendon, the young prodigy named Jobe Watson, the son […]
Watching the Olympics this morning I was very emotional. The legendary Felix Sanchez of the Dominican Republic lit up the track in the 400 metres hurdles to claim his second Olympic gold in that event. Why I love Felix Sanchez: In Sydney 2000 he was the fancied runner after posting great times during the […]
We had some massive efforts in the iconic Gold Coast running festival. Two warriors took to the full 42km (26 mile) assignment. Adam Franklin ran a respectable 3:49.32 and Sam Handy battled severe cramping from the 14km mark to post a troubled 5:44.17. You must realise that the hot Queensland sun was beating down while […]
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