Run Culture Podcast

In this episode I firstly go over the last 10 days of my training as I build up to the 50km ultra at Canberra marathon and have an enjoyable chat to new Run Culture owl athlete; Pete Dutton. We introduce him to the listeners, go over how he is finding training in the group, his recent race results, short term/ long term aims and what we are working on in training so far!

Today’s interview is with Justin Rinaldi a man who has lived and breathed the 800m event for the past 30yrs! He is currently the coach of the Fast 8 Track club, a squad based in Melbourne that specialises in the 800. He has been the coach of the past two Australian 800m record holders; Alex Rowe and Joseph Deng. In his own athletic career he was the 1997 Australian 800m champion, won a Victorian 800m title at 25 and then another 10yrs later at the age of 35 won another! In this interview we learn a lot about the group he coaches, his training methods, as well as many stories from his athletics and coaching career! So many pearls in this one, so jump in and have a listen!

Episode 28 is with a coach that needs no introduction, Adam Didyk! However for those that don’t know, Adam Didyk is a highly distinguished Australian distance running coach hailing from South Australia! He is the founder of the highly successful elite running group ‘Asics Team Tempo’. The personal coach of star athletes such as; Jess Trengove, Jared Tallent, Max Stephens, the Cocks brothers, Caitlin Adams, the Eckel sisters, Matt Clarke, Jack Colreavy and streams of others. He was nominated by Athletics Australia for coach of the year in 2015/16, 2016/17 and has been the Australian distance running coach on numerous World championship, Commonwealth Games and Olympic teams. On this episode Adam gives us a great update on how ‘Team Tempo’ formed, he opens up about the teams athletes/characters, their training, their prospects for 2020, the 4 pillars that ensure optimal performance, his coaching philosophy and much more!

Rod Griffen is a prominent Australian distance running coach hailing from Ballarat. He has coached for 30 plus years, having coached 2 of the past 3 Australian men 10,000m record holders- Collis Birmingham and Stewart McSweyn amongst many other amazing athletes. In this episode Rod portrays the friendly, approachable and relaxed nature that I feel has made him such a successful coach. He generously shares some great insight into what he believes makes for a good coach, some of his favourite 1500m sessions, some great yarns about his coaching experiences and much more! Thanks Rod for a ripper of an interview! Apologies for the occasional drop outs in audio- Skype was playing up.

This week I interviewed Sean Williams a highly experienced fulltime running coach! He has coached runners of all ages and ability levels (from Olympians to hobby runners) for 20 years. He was also quite a distinguished runner himself running 14:09 for 5k and 29:31 for 10k. Back in 2004 he started ‘Sweat Sydney’ a highly successful running group and then over the past few years has established the ‘Melbourne Pack’ run group. Anyway as you will see Sean not only knows a heap about running, he is also a great story teller and has so many intriguing and captivating yarns. Enjoy!

Hey guys, after documenting my 8 week build up to the event, here is my play by play wrap of how my race went at the 2020 2Bays 56k Trail run! I Absolutely had a ball!! 4:01:34 and the win, so happy. Unfortunately got DQ’d though as my bottle over the final 18kms was too small. Ah well a rules a rule! Still had a blast. I thought I could run low 4hrs but I wasn’t sure, it was a perfect goal and I did it!!! Longest run by 11k! What incredible scenery/views and what an awesome feel/atmosphere the trail running community posses!!! Well done to everyone out there on Sunday, what an amazing sport running is!!!

Today, I go over my final race plans/preparations and taper week leading into the 2 Bays Trail Run, which excitingly is on tomorrow! I want to wish all those that are doing it a huge ‘Good-luck!’ It’s going to be a fun/epic day! I also want to promote and encourage everyone to jump on board the fantastic initiative David Mc Neil started this week. ‘Let’s donate a dollar per kilometre run this week’ to those affected by the recent bushfires in regional Victoria/NSW!

Today, I catch up with Jess (one of the athletes I coach) to get his view on how the first half of his track season went, we also chat about this mornings park run, his involvement for team Maurten in the steigen1 meet and where to from here!

Sorry guys no interview today, just a run down of my last week of training. Hope everyone had, is having, an enjoyable Christmas and new yrs break! Only 9 days till #2bays56!

This week I had a great chat with Jai Edmonds about his goals for the 2Bays56km Trail run, his love of ultras, what a typical training week looks like for him, his role in health promotion and much more! I also personally go over the ins and outs of my 6th week of training too!