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What event are your training for and what is your goal? Coast to Coast 2019 – finish faster time than this year 🙂 What it is your motivation for wanting to achieve this? Always to celebrate being a cancer survivor & being alive What is your background and how did you get into your sport? […]

What event are your training for and what is your goal? Coast to Coast What it is your motivation for wanting to achieve this? I wanted to do something that would push me out of my comfort zone mentally and physically. What is your background and how did you get into your sport? My background […]

What event are your training for and what is your goal? Stair climbing New York What it is your motivation for wanting to achieve this? Bucket list for Fire Fighters What is your background and how did you get into your sport? Volunteer Fire Fighter and want an individual sport related to fire fitness Why? […]

What event are your training for and what is your goal? Coast to Coast- 2019 What it is your motivation for wanting to achieve this? Lifelong goal What is your background and how did you get into your sport? Played competitive rugby & cricket till injuries & kids happened, enjoy MTB and trail running. What […]

What event are your training for and what is your goal? Pioneer Mtb Race What it is your motivation for wanting to achieve this? I did the four day in 2017 and stupidly entered this years before I’d thought too much about it. 😂 What is your background and how did you get into your […]

What event are your training for and what is your goal? Longest Day C2C 2019. Goal is to finish before the sun goes down and have fun. What it is your motivation for wanting to achieve this? As an endurance athlete, the C2C is something i have wanted to do for a while. Having recently been posted to Burnham ( yes […]

“I can’t run to the top of the hill”, “I can’t swim 10 lengths” “We don’t have a cure for my brain tumour” Yesterday I had a great catch up with a good friend of mine Andrew Sloan who I used to do a lot of training and racing with in our university days in […]

Let’s talk sleep…we all wish we had more of it.  After attending a Exercise Recovery Symposium led by some of the greatest minds in the Sports Science Industry, I was made very aware of how important sleep is to…EVERYTHING!!!  If we are not sleeping, we are not recovering, which leads to a raft of problems […]

Training is easy when the sun is shining, the temperatures are warm and the daylight hours are longer. But with winter now officially here, the colder temperatures and darkness setting in before you even get home from work, enthusiasm and motivation can very easily waver. So to help you remain inspired and passionate for your training […]

Awesome. Stunning. Fun. Competitive. Brilliant. Epic. Backroad 200 2018 was amazing with a fantastic three days of cycling Day One: Omarama to Waitaki Dam – 60km. On arrival into Omarama on Friday afternoon the wind was howling, but thankfully the right way! With a tail wind pushing us down the valley we hit some high […]