Mental

Want to keep running long term? Up your mental and recovery game

Want to keep running long term?  Up your mental and recovery game

A couple of weeks ago, we published a blog looking at what we think are the most important considerations when you are starting out on your running journey. However, as we know, getting started is just half the battle. Keeping running is often the more challenging half of the equation. when we start to look at your overall trajectory, and keeping you active in the longer term, certain things become more important, two of which are recovery and mental resilience.  

Changing Life Direction - Debs' Journey to Running

Changing Life Direction - Debs' Journey to Running

Being a self confessed workaholic and having had serious health complications earlier in her life, led Debs to seek out life changes. A move to a new suburb and taking up running gave her a new lease on life, new goals and new friends. Here is Debs’ running story…

Comparison is the devil...

Comparison is the devil...

Comparison is the devil. Well, maybe that's a bit extreme, but I rarely find comparisons helpful in my line of work.

When I raise the issue of comparison with people you often see wry smiles and subtle nodding of heads. Everybody does it but yet most people feel worse because of it. The problem is that its addictive. We can’t help ourselves!