We all know how important speedwork is to us, runners. But what do you do during taper time? Do you or do you not include them? The answer is simple. Do them, just make them a shorter session. This is important because you don’t want to overtrain or get injured, especially in the lead-up to
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On the 21st of June 2014 I set a challenge to walk, run, hike, jump, hop, or any other type of movement to get me to 1 Million Steps in 100 days. That means moving 10,000 steps for 100 days. 25% of adults walk for no more than one hour each week, with a further 43%
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So what makes fit people different from non-fit people? Their habits. Fit people make their health and well-being important to them. If it’s important to you, you’ll find the time, otherwise, you’ll just find an excuse. This brings me to the 7 things I do differently. 1. Enjoy your workout / Get workout gear Find
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Name: Hyperno Melbourne Marathon Warm up Distance: 16km Location: Stawell Ironbarks Hyperno was a race horse who won the Melbourne cup in 1979. The Melbourne Marathon will be running on the 12th October. I’m telling you this random information because I simply can. This particular club run use to be the Charlie Jones Handicap. However Charlie
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It’s been one crazy (in a good way) week here in the RunMum household. I’ve been helping Kayla’s grade out with swimming lessons. Miles got a stomach bug, and I also started my new job! So lets get straight to it. Five Pictures 1. Tom and I built another path, this time, down the side
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I’ve noticed lately there seems to be a development going around on “failure is not an option”. I’ve seen it a lot in the ‘weightloss’ community. But I’ve also seen it in a lot of obstacle race / crossfit events. Society has now instilled a fear in failure. Failure isn’t wrong. It’s ok, and here are 3
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You can learn alot from a run, and let me tell you I learned a lot from this weeks club run the Stawell Youngs Sportspower 10km handicap. Only 7 runners turned up to run the senior event, with 5 of those runners being females. It’s sad that it was such a small group, as it
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Every Month Jill Conyers does an Ultimate Coffee date. It’s a great way to check in and recap everything that has happened over the last month. I thought I would combined my ultimate coffee date check in with my running stats check in. So grab a hot drink (or cold), sit down and relax. If
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Spring was definitely in the air in the last week of winter, and it was just divine. For this weeks club run, I had to dust off the running shorts and singlet because it was warm and sunny. The sun was out and it was just glorious.The kids were off first. Miles had a nice
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