• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
Operation Move

Operation Move

Online Running Coaching

  • About Me
    • Contact me
  • Blog
  • Podcast
  • Coaching
  • Run Club
  • Ebooks
  • Downloadable Plans
  • Bookings
  • Shop
    • My account
    • Cart
    • Checkout
  • Show Search
Hide Search
You are here: Home / Archives for running

running

Podcast: Episode 122 – Wait, what just happened?

OperationMove · March 24, 2020 · Leave a Comment

It’s hard to even wrap your head around everything that has changed in the last three weeks since I recorded a podcast

I didn’t really know where to start with this episode, so I just dived right in to what we are all dealing with at the moment. I also did a Facebook Live last week, where I went into more of what training looks like when there is no event on the horizon and more importantly, how it could be a really important mindset shift in terms of how you approach things from a long term development point of view, rather than from blocks of 12 weeks. You can check that out here. This episode would have been published sooner, but now my kids are home and kicking them off the computer was harder than I anticipated.

Would you like your question answered?

As promised on the podcast, you can book in a skype call here Or you can email me here.  

Interested in Learn to Run?

Our next session starts on the 4th of May, but you can register now and start going through the preparatory program so you can hit the ground running (pun intended!) The program includes:
  • Your choice of various weekly programs ranging from absolute beginner to someone who is looking for a 5km PB
  • Your workouts adjusted as needed so they aren’t too challenging or too easy
  • Weekly email or message check-ins with me
  • Weekly emails on additional things to support your running like breathing, technique, mindset and injury prevention
  • A supportive, private group
  • Two strength sessions per week that you can do from home with no gym equipment

Check out Run Club and the Operation Move Sisterhood

Our amazing community includes:
  • Plans from 5km to Marathon from Beginner to Advanced
  • Weekly workouts for when you are in between plans, or just to spice up your week
  • A private facebook community
  • Access to coaches for all your questions
  • And most importantly – the most supportive community you can imagine!
You can sign up here.

Support the podcast, so we can make more and get access to bonus episodes!

You can support Operation Move and the podcast on Patreon. I am so grateful for your support! Stay up to date on:
  • instagram @opmove
  • facebook @opmove
  • facebook community group @opmove
You can listen on iTunes, Spotify or Stitcher.

Podcast: Episode 121 – No Runners Don’t Hate Running

OperationMove · February 22, 2020 · Leave a Comment

Or how you can manipulate data to sell the story you want . . .

Strava released data from surveying 25,0000 runners. You can see their visualisation of that data here. And I probably would have just looked at it and thought hey, that’s pretty cool but then every media outlet across the globe started running their story which was basically “LOOK. Runners hate running too!” And as clickable a headline as that it is it’s not really true. The less exciting version is that runners love to run, and they tolerate a bunch of stuff that they don’t always love, all the time because they love it – and overall there is very little that they actually hate. So this week, I talk a bit about the toxic nature of normalising love-hate relationships with exercise and movement.

Would you like your question answered?

As promised on the podcast, you can book in a skype call here Or you can email me here.

Check out Run Club and the Operation Move Sisterhood

Our amazing community includes:
  • Plans from 5km to Marathon from Beginner to Advanced
  • Weekly workouts for when you are in between plans, or just to spice up your week
  • A private facebook community
  • Access to coaches for all your questions
  • And most importantly – the most supportive community you can imagine!
You can sign up here.

Support the podcast, so we can make more and get access to bonus episodes!

You can support Operation Move and the podcast on Patreon. I am so grateful for your support!   Stay up to date on:
  • instagram @opmove
  • facebook @opmove
  • facebook community group @opmove
You can listen on iTunes, Spotify or Stitcher.

The best piece of running advice I ever got wasn’t from a runner

OperationMove · February 10, 2020 · Leave a Comment

I find inspiration for running everywhere, not just from running.

Young asian woman enjoys running outside with beautiful summer evening in the countryside.

I am definitely one of those people who finds a whole lot of interesting things for my sport, outside of my sport. I suppose, a lot of it has to do with finding a different perspective or looking at something from a different angle.

In anything, there’s a certain level where you just tend to accept that it’s the way things are, without asking why they are, because that’s the way they’ve always been.

I listened to Jason Koop talk about just this thing in terms of coming to running coaching from a cycling background, he just took less things as gospel.

Imposter complex can come into this too. Especially when you have experts in the field who know so much more than you do, who are you to go a different way than well established principles.

It’s important to put that imposter complex aside and always test. Test and re-test. See what’s true, and what holds up. Especially with coaching women, because the reality is the vast majority of research is done on men, so how valuable is it really?

Anyway, back to my best running advice.

When I first started CrossFit it was hard to figure out how to pace workouts – what was too easy or too hard? It was unfamiliar territory because it felt different to running. Running has a more immediate feedback loop than strength training does. So if you go out to hard, you know pretty much straight away.

There’s a level where that can be true with CrossFit but it’s also easy to feel like you could have gone out harder and then get to the afternoon and realise, ‘nope, I’m good!’

I was asking my coach at the time about what I should be aiming for and his answer was ‘it’s your time, you do what you want with it.’

Which is true for everything.

And has both escalated and tempered my approach to everything since.

I decide what I want to get out of it.

I decide how hard or how easy it needs to be.

I decide what is worth it.

Not every day can be an all out effort – in fact if you want that great day at a race, very few can be an absolute all out effort. Some days need to be easy, other days you can lean in to the discomfort.

And it’s always your time.

Podcast: Episode 115 – Training Talk with Kirsten + How to Pick a Goal Race

OperationMove · November 22, 2019 · Leave a Comment

This week in Training Talk

I talk to Kirsten who is deep into ultra taper. This was recorded last week, so at the time of publishing this she is already down in Falls Creek getting ready, which is so exciting! We talk a bit about what her taper look like (and what my deload week looked like – far less interesting) and we will make sure and do another episode after she is back to catch up on how it all went.

 

Listener Question: How Do You Pick a Goal Race?

This is a big question and thank you to Jo from Run Club for asking it, because it’s a great one to think about at this time of year! And we get into:

  • Goal races for experience vs for PBs
  • Structuring your year around your goals
  • The differences when you are planning for an ultra vs planning for a shorter distance
  • And then we get sidetracked into other things like: you can run even if it doesn’t benefit your family at all.

 

Coming Up . . .

Do you want 2020 to be the year you learn to run, our program starts on the 6th January and you can register here.

 

Support the podcast, so we can make more and get access to bonus episodes!

You can support Operation Move and the podcast on Patreon. I am so grateful for your support! This week, the bonus episode is a deep dive into managing mindset for training and racing!

 

Stay up to date on:

  • instagram @opmove
  • facebook @opmove
  • facebook community group @opmove

Or you can listen on iTunes, Spotify or Stitcher.

Podcast: Episode 98 – Does it really come naturally? Breathing while running

Zoey · April 8, 2019 · Leave a Comment

Breathing feels like it should be easy, like something that should come naturally – after all you do it all the time, right?

This is one of the topics that comes up really regularly in Learn to Run as often breathing is one of the biggest struggles for a new runner, or someone returning to running. In this episode I talk about:

  • Mouth breathing vs nose breathing
  • How to improve your breathing technique by practicing when you aren’t running
  • Breathing exercises to improve your lung capacity (you can check out a great starting point here)
  • Running workouts that will force adaptation in your lungs.

Listen here:

Watch on YouTube here:

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to page 3
  • Go to page 4
  • Go to page 5
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 25
  • Go to Next Page »
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Copyright © 2023 Operation Move · All Rights Reserved · Powered by Mai Theme

  • About Me
  • Contact me
  • Sitemap