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Podcast: Episode 85 – Identifying weaknesses to maximise your results

Zoey · August 23, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Let’s talk weaknesses!

Weaknesses are actually your best friend, and your best path to improved results, but finding out what they are and how to address them can be tricky! This week I’m talking about:

  • Creating a mindset that allows you to thrive when addressing weaknesses, doing hard things and focusing on things that you aren’t good at.
  • How to identify if your best area of improvement is in sprinting, middle distance or long distance
  • How you can customise training to still target your goal distance but also work on the energy system that needs it the most.
  • Creating a relationship with improvement that is about learning and not success vs failure.

The link I mentioned for a racing equivalent calculator is here.

And Learn to Run starts on the 10th September, don’t miss out!

Podcast: Episode 84 – Finding a running coach is like dating, here’s how to find what works for you

Zoey · August 19, 2018 · Leave a Comment

This week we are talking about running coaches

How to find them, why you might want one, and what are the best questions to ask including:

  • Why it’s far more about personality than it is about programming
  • Getting a sense of someone’s training philosophy
  • The benefits of creating a partnership for your training with coaching
  • And why I think all running coaches should have coaches too!

Learn to Run registrations are now open, so you can sign up here for early access to the group and to start on our introductory walking and strength program.

Meet Matilda!

OperationMove · August 15, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Matilda is an active and valued member of Run Club and the Operation Move Community, and blogs at  www.runmum.com. Matilda originally shared her story in Run Club and it is reprinted here with her permission.

I picked up running (again) end of 2011. I say again as I use to do cross country in high school. Apparently, I was quite good at it as I was always in the top 5, and would proceed to regionals. I gave it up as I never did the training, and my lungs felt like they would burst. Fast Forward to 2011. After splitting up with my ex, a friend of mine got me onto this program called Turbofire (a Beachbody program), by Chalene Johnson. I loved it.

Getting introduced to Chalene opened up so much more for me. She had (still has I think), this free 30-day program called 30-day push. Where you set goals and then go out and smash them. I thought I knew goal setting until I did this program (I still use the method today). One of my goals at the time was to run a 5km race. I was not a runner, but I saw running as the epitome of being fit. I thought I was fit until I laced up my shoes and headed out the door to run. I never knew programs like c25k existed. I did (what I now know as) fartlek training, where I’d run to the next street/tree/driveway etc, then walk for a bit then repeat.

I set my goal race as the Run for the Kids in April 2012. It took me 28:14 to run the 5.2km event. I was so proud of myself, and more importantly, I fell in love with running. The goals kept expanding. Next up was an 11.5km event, at Run the Gap (a local event for me). This run has a special place in my heart, as this is where I met my (not married, but practically are) husband. A mixed terrain event, I rocked that out in 1h3 mins. Of course, I had to level it up, and in June I ran my first half marathon at Run Melbourne. I ran that even in 2h3mins.

In 2014 I picked up trail running. My first trail event was at Surf Coast. It was horrible. I hated it. OMG I wanted to cry, it was so bad. I had high expectations, but getting ill prior to the event meant no training and of course it wasn’t at all what I expected. I revisited this event in 2017 and loved every minute of it. A totally different aspect and appreciation.

Since 2011 I have done:
4 Spartan Events
4 Tough Mudders
5 Road Half Marathons
9 Trail Half Marathons
3 25km + Trail Events
Countless Pb’s.

In April this year, my goal time to run the half marathon at the Australian Running Festival in Canberra was 1h45.  I crossed the finish line in a new personal best time of 1h43.

Totally love Op Move, and so glad I came across this group and joined the sisterhood.

Podcast: Episode 83 – Things that are not running that can dramatically improve your running

Zoey · August 10, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Let’s talk about things that are not running that might be stopping your running from improving

This week in the podcast, I’m talking about all the things that sit around your running that can have a huge impact on your running

  • On sleep: making the most of your own sleep pattern, rather than forcing yourself to get up early
  • On nutrition: making small tweaks that can force you to get all your micronutrients as well as your macros and making that mindset shift to eating for performance
  • Experimenting with cold exposure for improved immunity: YES. I’ve been having cold showers.
  • Mobility: I’ve been using the GOWOD Mobility First app for three weeks and I talk about what I’m loving it for.

 

Meet Jus!

OperationMove · August 1, 2018 · Leave a Comment


Jus is an active and valuable member of the Operation Move Community and Run Club; and she also runs to raise funds for Epilepsy Australia. Jus originally shared her story in Run Club and it is reprinted here with her permission.

In February 2012 (when our youngest was 18 months old) I saw this picture of myself in the school newsletter. I had thought that my body had bounced back a lot better than it really had and the photo was enough of a shock for me into doing something. I wasn’t *that* much overweight but felt uncomfortable within myself and wasn’t even fit enough to brush my teeth of a morning without feeling like I needed to sit down!!

I started walking with our youngest (now 7) in the pram after school drop off. Initially it was just from school to the post office and back (about a 1km round trip). Eventually the walks started to get longer, and I was needing something more so started a Couch to 5k podcast and began running in May 2012.

About a month later, our 25 year old niece passed away suddenly from SUDEP (Sudden Unexpected Death in Epileptics) and running soon became my therapy… my way to cope with her loss. Two months after her death, I ran my first City2Surf in Sydney (something that had been on my bucket list since I was a child growing up in Sydney).

From there, I began raising money for Epilepsy Australia and my running very soon became about fundraising and increasing awareness of SUDEP. In total, my sister and myself have raised over $1,700 for Epilepsy Australia.

I’ve since run 6 half marathons, countless 10k races and have now completed my first ultra at UTA50! I love that, through running, I have met some wonderful, supportive women (both online and in real life) and that I can be such a positive influence on my girls.

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