Running Matters

Ep 42- Rohan Browning – Speed to Burn

Paul Hadfield interviews Rohan, who at the tender age of 21 just became Australia’s 3rd fastest runner of all time with a blistering 10:08 in the 100m.

Rohan is a semi finalist at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast and is off to compete at the World Championships in Doha later this year. He is coached by 3 time Olympic triple jumper Andrew Murphy.

We chat about what it takes to be a top international sprinter and break the mythical 10 second barrier. We break down Rohan’s impressive training routine and discuss the components that make him so damn fast.

Rohan opens up on the topic of drugs in sport and gives us an insight to the psychology of a top level athlete. He also covers the ‘big’ issues like, popping the bonnet in training, chicken nuggets in competition and how much beetroot juice is too much!

Enjoy listening to one of Australia’s brightest young athletics stars!

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Ep 41- Chris Truscott- Marathon Man

Matt is joined with Co Host Paul Hadfield to interview Chris Truscott.

Running & racing is a way of life for Chris and his wife Greta who run the family friendly Rejoov Runners from Sydney’s Centennial Park.

Chris has a long affinity with many of Sydney's iconic running events. He first completed Sydney's City to Surf when he was just 9 years old, running 63mins. In 1987 at the age of 13, he ran 53mins and he has competed in every single City to Surf since (over 30 of them) with a PB of 45:44, he has run 25 consecutively under 49mins!

Chris's first marathon was the 1993 Melbourne race. We're not sure why he was so keen to start running marathons at the age of 18, but he loved it and was happy to finish in a 3:13.26.

Chris has gone on to compete in over 30 marathons including Berlin, Chicago, Rotterdam, London, Tokyo, New York and local ones - Sydney, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Melbourne & Canberra with a PB of 2:29:44 coming in 2002 in one of his four Berlin finishes. All his subsequent marathon times since debut have been under 3hrs.

Chris has managed to maintain his longevity with running via a balanced approach to life and to the sport.

At 45yrs, he continues to compete across a wide spectrum of events. Whether it's a 5000m track time trial, 10km road race, half marathon or marathon, or a 100km trail or road race.

I hope you enjoy this very informative, light-hearted interview.

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Ep 40- Sarah Tapp and Lisa Krummer- Ultra marathon runners

Matt is joined with Co Host Paul Hadfield to interview Sarah Tapp and Lisa Krummer.

Between them they have an impressive CV;

Sarah: Coastal Classic 30km, 2017, 2^nd Female. Sri Chinmoy Ultra Relay Female Team, 2017, 1st Place. Sri Chinmoy Ultra Relay Female Team, 2018, 2nd Place. Alpine Ascent 50km, 2018, 2^nd Female. Sutherland Athletics Half Marathon, 2018, 1^st Female. Rocky Trails Shimano Mt Bike Series, Female Pairs, 3^rd Place. Kiama Coastal Classic (14km), 2018, 3^rd Female. Western Sydney Half Marathon, 2019, 3^rd Female. UTA50, 2017 and 2018, 3^rd in age group both years. Royal Double Ultra Marathon, Day 1, 50km, 2019, 1st Female.

Lisa: Sri Chinmoy Ultra Relay Female Team, 2017, 1^st Place. Sri Chinmoy Ultra Relay Female Team, 2018, 2nd Place. Alpine Ascent 50km, 2018, 4^th Female. Sutherland Athletics Half Marathon, 2018, 4^th Female. Rocky Trails Shimano Mt Bike Series, Female Pairs, 3rd Place. Royal Double Ultra Marathon, Day 2, 50km, 2019, 2^nd Female.

They chat about the advantages of being female in ultra-running, smarter race strategies, not going out too fast and of course less ego!

They talk about scheduling training sessions around a busy life with full time work and raising young kids. Also allowing for their partners to train. Note if you miss your session, you don’t get it back! They both appreciate the time running because it gives them a break from the kids.

Sarah chats about her recent holiday in France, a guided running tour in the Alps of Mont Blanc to celebrate her 30^th birthday. She chats about the challenging trails and the 230km covered over ten days (there’s not much flat running).

Lisa chats about obtaining a stress fracture leading up to UTA100 and how she managed to cross train for the event and still do an impressive time (14:23) with very little running.

The girls chat about coaching and the value of being coached, training programs, upcoming events, Coastal Classic, race strategies and race nutrition.

They chat about the importance of running to help manage wellbeing and mental health.

I hope you enjoy this informative, light-hearted interview.

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Ep 39- Katie Visco and Henley Phillips are running and riding across Australia.

The Outback is a large expanse of rough, barren desert that can cause serious problems when exposed day after day to shadeless, intense heat. With a July 2019 start date, we're taking advantage of the cooler, drier months to make the crossing, avoiding extreme temperatures and washed-out roads.

While there is a more direct route connecting Darwin to Adelaide via the Stuart Highway, we've chosen to avoid the more trafficked paved routes in favor of dirt roads. This approach keeps us away from potential dangers like increased traffic, while also introducing the logistical difficulty of scant resupply options and many hundreds of miles without services. More intriguing, yes. More difficult, most definitely.

It's worth noting that we - Katie and Henley - are in no way professionals. Professional goofballs, that's about it! We're just audacious dreamers with a healthy dose of optimism that things will work out and a desire to push ourselves. That said, we are experienced outdoors-people with several thousand miles of solo and tandem travel of this nature, and we have inspired heads on our shoulders. We understand the risks of the project and are responsible and intelligent enough to figure it all out with passion and humility.

If you want to track Katie and Henley’s current trip across Australia, check out their website and Garmin live tracker at katievisco.com

They would love you to send them a message!

I hope you enjoy this adventurous, light-hearted interview.

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Ep 38- Pat Farmer- Australia’s Greatest Ultra Marathoner

Pat Farmer, best known as the only man who has run continuously from the North Pole to the South Pole, is a multiple world record holder for endurance running. He has also run around and across Australia, New Zealand, India, Vietnam and North America. Pat served 8 years as a Member of Australia’s Parliament, with 3 years as Parliamentary Secretary for Education, Science and Training. Winner of ‘Achiever of the Year’ (2000), awarded by Prime Minister John Howard and National Geographic's Adventurer of the Year (2012), Pat has raised millions of dollars for causes during his 30 year running career, including Lifeline, Cancer Council, Australian Red Cross, Diabetes Australia and the Nani Khali Foundation for education of India's girl child.

1999 - Pat established the fastest around-Australia record of continuous running in 191 days and 10 minutes (around 6 months) over 14,662.4km during his Centenary of Federation run. Also, during that run Pat set a new world 10,000km record in 129 days, broke a long- standing Australian record of more than 13,383km in 174 days, set a total of 10 international records including the Western Australia border to border run, the Brisbane to Darwin run, and the world record for the longest tropics run (6307km in 83 days).

1993 - A virtually unknown Pat Farmer secured second place in his first attempt at the Trans-America Road Race - 4719km from Huntington Beach, California to New York, 80km per day for 64 days.

IN ADDITION, PAT IS: Twice - record holder for crossing the Simpson Desert, ranked third in the world for 1000 miles on a track. He also ran 2500km around NSW for charity in 42 consecutive days as well as numerous international and national ultra-marathons, including the first 1,000 mile track race in Australia – the second race of its kind anywhere in the world

Pat shares some of his amazing adventures with us and plenty of advice from an experienced ultra-marathoner.

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Ep 37- Craig (Crowie) Alexander- five-time Triathlon World Champion

Matt is joined with Co Host Paul Hadfield to interview Crowie and Brett Davidson.

Crowie describes winning the Hawaiian Ironman as his life work. He talks about finding his niche in the US on the short course circuit, he raced as a pro for 14 years before winning Hawaii.

He talks about winning the 70.3 Half Ironman World Title in 2006 where he qualified to race at Kona the following year. He talks about the difficulty of trying to return and defend the title with more demands on time and added pressure. He talks about the challenges of the environment during the race including the heat and the Trade Winds.

He talks about how he trained and acclimatised in different locations under different conditions. He chats about external and internal pressure, the importance of positive psychology and how your attitudes and thoughts can impact on performance. He talks about his mantra that he uses during races.

He gives advice on recovery, nutrition, training at altitude, perceived exertion, managing illness with training, heart rate, core strength and stability, injury prevention, having fun to mix up the monotony of training and finally the importance of sleep.

We go to a short shoe review with Sean Tindale from Runnulla.

Crowie tells a funny story about his bucks’ night and having to meet with an ASAD Official for a drug test the following morning with no sleep, still wearing a Safari Suit from the night before!

Brett chats about his Coaching business Sansego that he works on with Craig. He also chats about their Sports Nutrition brand Koda.

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Ep 36- Steve Redfern- Larapinta Trail, 231km non-stop, plus Barkley Marathon 2019

Matt is joined with Co Host Paul Hadfield to interview Steve Redfern.

Steve chats about running the Larapinta Trail non-stop for 231km.

Steve also talks about crewing for a friend during the Barkley Marathon.

Finally, Steve gives his advice about managing race nutrition for an ultra-marathon.

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Ep 35- Rory Darkins- Mental Skills Coach

The brain limits our endurance capacity before our body needs to physically slow down, essentially the brain is wired to keep us safe, this consequently limits our potential.

Rory shares psychological skills you can train and develop into your daily routine to improve your overall performance. He explains how the brain perceives effort as a threat and identifies how we should change this perception into a challenge so we can embrace it and move toward it.

He talks about finding the ‘flow state’, the optimal state a person can be in when competing.

Rory explains how breathing practices can help manage performance anxiety pre-event.

He talks about managing the ‘inner critic’, the voice in our head that gives us negative feedback. He explains the benefits of reassurance prior to events with self talk such as; why am I hear, what have I got to lose? He explains how to ground yourself in the situation during a race and do a self-check to realise you are not feeling as bad as you think you are.

Haddy uses his wealth of experience managing the fragile minds of the NORG team to get some valuable advice from Rory, while Wolfie keeps Rory on his toes with his multiple personality disorder.

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Ep 34- Sean Tindale- Runnulla Running Store- shoe expert

Sean played Rugby League for twenty years before getting into running with dodgy knees, he talks about starting as a road runner before transitioning into trail running. He chats about many of the famous trail races he has participated in including Glow Worm Tunnel, UTA and the Sydney Trail Series.

Working as a Personal Trainer, Sean talks about how he set up his running shop Runnulla in Cronulla with his wife Jen eleven years ago. He talks passionately about the sporting clubs and athletes they support in the community, including previous guests of the show Ali Najem, Scotty Richmond, Steve Redfern and Simone Hayes.

He chats about having Mark Webber in the store to promote his new running apparel Aussie Grit. He tells us a story about Mark getting hit by a 4WD in Tasmania during his own ‘Mark Webber Challenge’ adventure race.

He talks about the importance of analysing people’s gait to make sure they end up in the right shoe to prevent injury. Sean discusses how he sees a high percentage of people on the treadmill that are pronators. Sean also talks about shoe brands annually changing their models to make them lighter. He tells us how much mileage we should get from our shoes. He talks about the pro’s and cons of trail shoes. He also chats about the recent trend of carbon plate shoes such as the 4%ers.

The boys chat about the different ground reaction force between trail running and road running and the impact on the lower body. They talk about barefoot running and the side effects.

Finally, he gives some tips on finding the right fit when you try on a shoe.

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Ep 33- Sue Lloyd and Jake Reus- Adventure Racing- Team GuReus

Sue and Jake take us on an adventure talking about their self supported races they complete that can take anywhere from four to seven days in remote areas involving hiking, running, mountain biking and kayaking. One race they completed recently went for seven and a half days and they had a total of nine hours sleep!

Based on orienteering, these athletes have to choose their own adventure to navigate from one location to another, collecting checkpoints as they go. They travel through remote wilderness in freezing conditions, end up in confined places such as caves, add in sleep deprivation and things can and will go wrong!

Enjoy this humorous and motivating story!

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