Tag: mental strength
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Message Of The Day: Practice Self Respect & Self Love Will Come
A little rant here and maybe controversial but I’m sick of all these self love quotes and social media posts. I’m sorry but you shouldn’t be trying to convince yourself how great and special you are after sitting on the couch all day, as you order your second round of McDonalds. Or telling yourself you’re…
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Message Of The Day: Happiness Is Earned Not Given
Too many of us feel we deserve to be happy, we feel we’re born and then should just be able to go through life without having to invest in ourselves and our happiness. Just like training our bodies for running a marathon or lifting weights to get stronger we need to train our mindset by…
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Planning & Moving Forward
Blog Update #11 It’s been a hectic 4-6 weeks, you’d think the COVID-19 pandemic would’ve slown me down due to gyms closing and work drying up, however as a labourer and as someone who’s had access to weights I’ve been very fortunate. My work and training routine has been anything but slow, it’s been crazy.…
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Great Ocean Road Virtual Running Festival – 60km 2020 Report
Location: Mount Martha, Victoria, Australia Time: 04:42:03 Overall Place: 1st on Leaderboard (Virtual Run) Full Results This was a new experience, due to the COVID-19 pandemic ultra and trail races have been either postponed or cancelled everywhere, it’s left a gigantic whole in everyones ultra and trail running schedule. To help fill in that whole…
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Reflection & Goal Setting
Blog Update #10 April marks 12 months since trekking the Kokoda Track, a life-changing experience that lead to a year of experiences that many would be happy to have in a lifetime. I’ve been on top of the highest mountain in Europe, the highest mountain in Africa and the highest mountain in South America. I’ve…
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Motivational Think-piece #6
THE CORONAVIRUS – TURN NEGATIVES INTO POSITIVES, WORK ON YOURSELF With the coronavirus rapidly spreading where seeing our lives being drastically impacted in a short period of time. Jobs are being lost, shops are being closed, gatherings are being outlawed and our fast paced “important” lives are being slowed down. We’re being forced to stay…
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Warburton Trail Festival – 50km Lumberjack Run 2020 Report
Location: Powelltown, Victoria, Australia Time: 5:02:22 Overall Place: 9/98 Full Results Two weeks post a successful summit attempt on South Americas highest mountain Aconcagua I was hyped to get back to the ultra/trail running scene. The Two Bays 56 km Trail Run back in January was my last outing and at the same time my…
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