The Longest Road to Comrades Ep 20⁣

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🔸Wayne racking up local legends on the island. ⁣

🔸Sandy joins a running club. ⁣

🔸Darren runs 90km. ⁣

🔸Jackie reclaiming her mojo. ⁣

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The GoFundMe is still live for 2021 entries. If you’d like to donate follow the link https://gf.me/u/x69gss.

Laps of the lake Ep3⁣

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▪️Fortnight gone - physio visits, fractured bones and ticking boxes we cover it all. ⁣

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▪️Taper. ⁣

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▪️Pre and race nutrition.

🔸Wayne and Jackie run PBs in the first post lockdown race. ⁣

🔸Sandy runs a trail marathon. ⁣

🔸Darren stays on program. ⁣

🔸Marisha joins us as a guest panelist. ⁣

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The GoFundMe is still live for 2021 entries. If you’d like to donate follow the link https://gf.me/u/x69gss. ⁣

Dawid, Julia and Michael are back for another episode of laps of the lake. We go into the fortnight that was and how the training is going. Dawid achieved his longest week of training, Julz the perfect progressive and Michael nailed a 5km PB.

Laps of the lake is a new edition mini series to the stimulate run network where we will get an arm chair ride towards the build up of the bibra lake running festival. Julia (marathon), Dawid (half marathon), Michael (6km) and myself will speak about our build up, goals and challenges on a fortnightly basis.

Chris Lark also known as Mr RunningWorks has not only achieved in running but was also ranked as high as the second best squash player in Western Australia. Chris is now the owner of his own business known as runningworks which has two locations and is also the person responsible for putting on some of the most popular running events in Western Australia. On this episode we chat about his history in both sports, starting a business and also what goes into a successful event. Find more about Chris at http://squashworks.com.au/ and also Mrrunningworks on instagram.

The team are back for another episode where we discuss our fortnight highlights, what rest we employ pre and post ultras and much more.

time for episode 17 on this week we have a guest panel member David Irwin who joined us from the UK. David like Darren was a novice entrant into Comrades 2020 and now due to Covid-19 that will be moved to 2021 like many others. We field our opinions on a couple of listener questions and also look back on our fortnight highlights.

Margie Hadley has been a name mentioned multiple times on the wish list for listeners so Im happy to have her on for this episode. We talk about her journey from rowing, cycling IM and now ultra running. We discuss her consistency during the pandemic and how she has kept motivated. Thanks to Margies sponsors Salming and Runningworks.

The team are back to record on Comrades Day. When this first started never in our wildest dreams did we imagine we would be recording an episode. On this Episode we talk about our virtual runs, what one percenters we use to keep us on the road and we throw around if the virtual run might see any changes to the Comrades set up in the future. We also Launch our Sponsor a local runner initiative were we aim to raise funds to assist a selection of South African entrants with their raise fee for the 2021 race. As we know international runners have had their entry fee carried over where as local entrants did not. We have set up a go fund me page where any level of donation is welcome gf.me/u/x6y8xy.