Every second Saturday we put the squad through its paces. Thanks to Ger O'Donovan for filming

We have always valued education here at Pursuit Coaching, always interested in improving our athletes and also ourselves as coaches. We educate through a few different methods, at training (like all coaches), in our twice weekly emails, meetings and seminars that we put on. Topics we’ve covered this year Positive emotions Team contribution & success Building Confidence & barriers Visualisation Reflection, preparation Competitive awareness Racing in cold conditions Flow state

That sums up my journey since joining Pursuit Coaching / Blackfins only 4 months ago, from feeling competitive to knowing how to race. Physically a different athlete, a new mindset, and new found confidence for racing - not just competing. Why didn't i do it sooner?! Well here is some of the road to Pursuit and the transformation... Having hauled myself off the couch in 2012, seeking a new personal challenge and wanting to have some fun with friends, we set off down to Poi

If someone said to me that I was going to swim a 01:07:05 in choppy conditions like those that presented at Palm Cove that morning, I wouldn’t have believed them. As we were lining up in the pen, I was bursting with excitement. I knew deep down that having had that ‘beautiful’ swim at Busso IM in 2015 behind me, this couldn’t be too much different. But it was different. SIX minutes different! This kind of a rolling start was new to me. My heart rate didn’t sky rocket like it

A well-known quotation states that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Back in June 2015 I was confronting the harsh reality of that definition. I had just completed a frustrating Cairns IM with an average swim and run ruined by a really bad day on the bike. Cairns had been my fifth IM, and whilst there had been improvements, and a few near misses for a Kona spot, I had hit a plateau in terms of overall resul

I always thought my limits in Ironman are purely physical. I'm talking about lack of background and experience in endurance sport and sport in general, lack of talent, my not-fish-like-swimming and so on. Ironman Melbourne has proven me wrong. Very wrong. Sitting here and trying to write a race report is fairly difficult as there isn't much to report about in regards to the actual race. I had a really good day. I did my thing, stuck to the plan and loved it. I spent very litt

Five years in the sport of Triathlon and I never had a desire to compete in an Ironman. It was not until I had the opportunity to train with a dedicated and talented group of people in the Blackfins squad that things changed. Watching these friends train for an Ironman, then qualifying for the Ironman World Championships in Kona was fantastic. It was following them online as they competed in Hawaii though, that inspired me. I had finally seen what almost all others in our spo

3.03 to 2.46 in 11 months As I crossed the finish line at the Barcelona Marathon, and still as I sit here now, I am in shock. I ran that, I ran sub 4min/km over a 42.195 distance – really was that me? In a synopsis, I still know I have room for improvement. This was not my best race. The day before the marathon, as I rode around on the tourist bus (highly recommended) as it hailed and rained I had wondered what I had gotten myself in for. Was I really here, was it time to rac

I didn’t enter Busso, Sybil[ did. She does things like order tequila when I should go home (I’m writing this very hung over) … and she enters me in Ironman races when the idea of completing one is as ridiculous as me ever entering Australia’s Top Model. At the time, I’d had a tough couple of years privately, I hadn’t raced for over 8 months, I had not consistently trained for 6 months. I’d made plans with my coach that I had abandoned multiple times, including going to Las Ve

The dust has now settled on what has been a pretty crazy Ironman Western Australia. Now that I have had some time to digest the events of the weekend, I have been hit with one overwhelming realization – I have to train through another Perth Winter in preparation for Kona 2015. Signing up for Busselton as I sat in my apartment in Kailua Kona seemed like a magnificent idea at the time, especially considering how much I wanted to come back in 2015 and the amount of my Blackfins