How Much City2Surf Training Should I Do?
The answer depends on how fast do you want to run. You’ve probably heard of the Pareto Principle. Quite simply Pareto’s Principle is that 20% of any activity yields 80% of the result and 80% of any activity yields 20% of the result. This works in almost any situation. For example, you probably wear 20% of the clothes you own 80% of the time, which means that 80% of your wardrobe is stuffed with clothes you wear 20% of the time (if ever)! So it is with training. 20% of the City2Surf training you do will give you 80% of your fitness success,...
read moreCity2Surf 100 Day Challenge
It is now 100 days until the 2013 City2Surf, so if you are up for it, come and join me in the City2Surf 100 Day Challenge. There are a lot of City2Surf training programs around and most of them only run for 10 weeks before the event, so you may be wondering why I chosen to start this one at 100 days before the run? (Especially when even my own book on training for a fun run is based around a 10 week preparation!) Ultimately, we all want to live in a permanent state of good health and fitness, but to achieve this requires making some changes...
read moreMy First Book is a City2Surf Training Guide
My first book is called: ‘How to Break Your Fitness Slump and Comfortably Finish a Fun Run’ This year I’ll be doing my 43rd City2Surf and over the years I’ve tried many different training programs in the lead up to the City2Surf. Over the last 42 years I’ve perfected my City2Surf training program and this year I’ve written it up in a format that anyone can follow. To make it even easier, I’ve included a link in the back of the book where you can download and import the training program as an iCal file. This means you can have the training...
read moreHappy 80th Birthday Mum
If 60 is the new 40, then I think 80 must be the new 60. My mother is busily working on her new book ‘Mums, Children and Mustard Gas‘ a history of the Blue Mountains during WW2. She started researching this topic five years ago and rarely have my sister or I spoken with her over that period when she didn’t surprise us with yet another interesting fact that she had uncovered – sometimes literally. Mum is an ex-teacher who has written on many historical and geographical topics over the course of her career for publishers...
read moreLooking back on another year as a Life Coach
As 2012 comes to a close, I find myself browsing through my coaching notes of the many people I have been privileged to meet over the course of 2012. Some of the life experiences that have been shared with me over the last 12 months read like scripts from a sitcom. But they aren’t. These are the lives of real people whom I’ve been privileged to get to know. When you hear some of the life stories that I hear, you may realise just how wonderfully lucky your life has been. In 2012 I worked a man in who, as a small boy, often had to drag his...
read moreUnthinkable Goals
The goal setting process that I’ve had most success with encourages setting goals that create balance and complete a cycle of give and take. Like most things in life, we must find a balance. You can’t give without taking, you shouldn’t take without giving in return. And the funny thing I’ve noticed is that it doesn’t seem to matter whether you give back in the same place that you took or not, because somehow everything balances out. One area of goal setting I challenge my clients to set a goal in I call ‘unthinkable goals’ because, left to...
read moreFollow the herd again?
Every year at about this time, people around the world are beginning to wind down for the end of one year in preparation for the next. At the strike of midnight on December 31st, millions around the world will party, they’ll laugh, get drunk, make love, get into arguments and many will make New Year Resolutions. Some will promise not to drink, some will try promise to lose weight or get fit, to stop smoking, improve their career prospects and much more. Perhaps not surprisingly, most of those New Years Resolutions will never be achieved....
read moreMy Memories of Bryce Courtenay
Bryce Courtenay was a great influence in my early career. Like many others, I was saddened to hear of his passing this week. He will be remembered as an author who left a great body of work that we will continue to enjoy, but my memory of Bryce is from a different time. About 15 years ago, I decided to jot down my memories of my early life in advertising industry. Here is an extract containing my first meeting with him: It was yet another gorgeous Sydney Autumn day; a little humid, but I didn’t have far to walk. I was on my way up the hill...
read moreJust Another Birthday…
It used to be that I really looked forward to birthdays, but after half a century the magic seems to have faded away! No two days are ever the same for me, but as birthdays go, it was pretty ordinary. I got up and walked the dogs for a few kilometres, then returned for breakfast and a freshen up, before sitting down to do some writing and a postcard design that I’d promised a client before 9am (delivered at 8:50am). Throughout the day I received birthday phone calls and got dozens of Facebook messages; mostly from people I haven’t seen or...
read moreBefore the ANZACs
Anzac Day, April 25th, marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War, and today is an occasion of national remembrance, but let’s not forget those Australians and New Zealanders who lost their lives in the war before WW1. Every Australian knows about Gallipoli, and it is particularly significant for our family because my great grandfather, Harry Percival Edwards, landed at Gallipoli on 26th May 1915. Unfortunately, he was shot in the head 17 days later and...
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