Road to the Olympics
Follow my journey from Tokyo 2020 Olympics to Paris 2024, attempting to make Rio Olympics a quad tear put those plans on hold,Tokyo was a tough Olympics for me, but the knowledge there will help me make Paris an Olympics to remember. Enjoy the Journey
- Average duration
- 26 minutes
- Episodes
- 351
- Years Active
- 2025
Do you make yourself proud?
I’m very proud of the journey I’m on, I’ve accepted my life to this point and I’m excited for the future
Marathon week = dealing with adversity
It wouldn’t be marathon week without a little adversity
WTF animal, where’s the podcasts
Update 10 days before Houston,
who’s ready to hit that Olympic standard,
me me me
Fail fail fail - then learn, and get better.
It’s difficult to learn valuable lessons when things are going well, but when we fail, it can hurt, but we can learn much more
Happy New Years all
What a year, thanks for the consistency and following
Mistakes of 2016 - loss of Rio Olympics will help Tokyo
You have to learn from your mistakes, I made too many when trying to make Rio 2016, but I learnt from them and here we are
Instagram questions - S and C, coaches role in my running, Cadence and relationships in running
Managing relationships with training, Cadence, and gym for running. Plus my relationship with my coach Stephen Haas
Be smart over the festivities
It’s a fun time of the year, but it’s not always conducive to hard training
Halfway to Houston - fitness test “CRUSHED”
Nice job today, value of fitness tests in a marathon buildup
Easy days in the marathon build up
Back to Belfast, and a few easy days half way through the marathon build up
The professional day, “high performance”
How a day should look, assuming you’re trying to achieve optimum performance.
Adapt or die - make it happen, don’t wait for it to.
Keeping the head down, even though it’s been tough building back to full training.
have to persist
Accountability to your goals
You have to hold yourself accountable to the goals you want to achieve, find a way.
If you can’t, create a mother F*cker that can
Inner voice
Visualisation
Changing things that hold you back
Not always smooth, eye surgery today
Not a great day, but it went well and everything is good.
Back to it, Houston 10 weeks tomorrow.
That’s mad, Houston is 10’weeks away, but looking forward to grinding towards it
Back to Flagstaff - Houston 2020
Back to the mountain and work will begin to run 2.11.30 or faster at Houston marathon.
Marathons over - what NOW?
Getting over the marathon and moving on.
What to do next.