My race recaps always start in a similar way, looking back to where it all began... Six and a half years ago my gorgeous and last baby completed our family. 3 under 3 and a tonne of weight to lose lead me to running, you know the “cheap and easy” way to lose weight (feel [...]
Answering a standard medical questionnaire is no longer straight forward for me. In my medical history is cancer, Stage 3 Breast Cancer, my cancer was aggressive but my tumour was small when I found it and thankfully as far as I am aware the Cancer has not spread further. For a while I was on [...]
There are many reasons why people run ultra’s or an event that is longer than a marathon (42.2km), but just like the marathon it requires at a minimum 4 months of specific training on which you should have a solid base to build. You need some resilience and should be injury free if you’re an [...]
When we come to the week of tapering for any big event it can be greeted with fear or excitement, or sometimes perhaps both. When I really sit back and think about the hours and hours of hard work and commitment that have got me to the point I am at when I am about [...]
Emma, a Running Mums Australia Ambassador, is a 35 year old Mum living with her four children (aged 6, 9, 12 & 16) and her partner, in Busselton, on the coast of Western Australia. She works full-time in the Hospitality Industry and is studying part-time towards her Education Degree. This year Emma is training for [...]
This time last year I could count on one hand the number of International trips I had made and I had never been to Europe. I am now getting ready for my 2nd trip to Europe in 6 months and by the end of the year I will have doubled the number of international trips [...]
Anna Fitzgerald took up running in 2010 as part of a resolve to get fit and healthy. Although she ran a little as a kid, it was never something she enjoyed and therefore, it was with some reluctance that she participated in her first running event. It now fair to say that her passion for [...]
