Coach/Mentor/Executive Teacher. Enjoy coaching endurance athletes and helping them achieve their goals. Coach of numerous great people *Views are my own*
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Joined January 2013
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🌈 Michael Matthews at the World Championships
Elite Road Race 🥈🥈🥉🥉
U23 Road Race 🥇
Mixed Relay TTT 🥇🥇🥉
Team Time Trial 🥇🥈🥉
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Winter in #canberra but @WAU20Champs coming up soon. 1k TT for the u20 Aussie 1500m champion.
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5 days of heat acclimation won't raise your heat tolerance ceiling. 9 days will. A controlled trial in 28 adults found the critical heat threshold only shifted after the full 9-day protocol, plus a recovery gap before racing.
journals.physiology.org/doi/…
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"I cannot thank him enough" 🥹
Eleana Chiavassa shares this touching story about why her interaction with Michael Matthews meant so much and how it wasn't just for her, but also for her late grand father ❤️
🇫🇷 #TDF2026 | July 5-July 27 | Every Stage on SBS 📺
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Why You Should "Live Cool, Train Cool, Adapt Hot"
Ross explains why the timing of your heat adaptation is important.
This is from our new exclusive Applied Science of Sport Podcast series where we will unpick topics like this and discuss supporter suggested questions.
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🧵2/3
.. of the juniors finishing 5th overall in 7:51.95, 2nd fastest Australian junior 3000m
Kieran Shepherd was 2nd junior (16th overall) in 8:00.24, 2nd best U18 Australian 3000m time & almost joined only 6 other non-Africans globally who broke 8 minutes while 16 years old
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In the men's National 3000m Championship, Brett Robinson took the running up to his opponents & was only just out kicked by Callum Davies who finished first in a meet record of 7:48.21, Robinson 2nd 7:49.09 & Adam Goddard 3rd 7:49.68
Charles Barrett won the battle ...
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Two in the top 15 🌎🤯
Lauren Ryan and Leanne Pompeani lead the charge in the Women’s 10km at the World Cross Country Championships, racing bravely over the rollercoaster hill and through alligator alley to mix it with the world’s best distance runners.
Australia claim fifth place as a team in the event with strong supporting acts.
#AthleticsNation
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Record breakers and rising stars will lead Australia back to the streets of Tokyo this September for the 2025 World Athletics Championships, with six marathoners announced today by Australian Athletics headlined by national record holder Andrew Buchanan 💚💛
TEAM ANNOUNCEMENT👉bit.ly/2025WAC-AusMarathon
#AthleticsNation
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Every time I accidentally start (re)listening to this training discussion with Nils and Johann, I am unable to stop. They always pull me back into a thoughtful rabbit hole
Reward and Forgiveness: discussing training with champion speed skater N... youtu.be/eZ76s-5_F70?si=2K78… via @YouTube
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Leanne Pompeani clocks 2:24:53 for eighth place in Japan’s Nagoya Marathon to obliterate the fastest time run by an Aussie woman on marathon debut — Izzi Batt-Doyle’s 2:28:10.
And the ever-consistent Batt-Doyle produced a top run in Nagoya today, too, posting 2:23:29 for sixth.
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"The biggest step to any mission is commitment." – Nimsdai Purja
Success doesn’t start with luck. It starts with commitment. The moment you decide to go all in—that’s when everything changes. No excuses, no turning back. Just focus, discipline, and the drive to see it through.
Wearing @nimsdaistore
#Nimsdai #Commitment #Mindset #EliteExped #NoLimits #PushingBoundaries #ExpeditionMindset #Motivation #UKSF #Gurkha
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Training Theory: There must be a system to the madness!
myracad.com/articles/trainin…
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High or hot? A paper looking at:
"potential performance benefits derived from pre-competition “acclimation training” or natural acclimatization to either hypoxia induced via altitude or adaptation to hyperthermia via exposure to heat stress"
researchgate.net/publication…
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Enjoyed listening this episode of a Coach’s greatness I did not know or heard before, contributing to the evidence of coach-athlete relationships, individualised coaching and enjoyment Sir Matt Busby @ManUtd
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#OzAthsOS🇦🇺
Lots of OS athletes back for #AustChamps this week
🔸Jess Stenson's amazing marathon performance
🔸Other PBs on the road
🔸Zachary Della Rocca (18) drops double PBs for 2nd week running. Princeton High alumni & took up running seriously in 2022
#ThisIsAthletics
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𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝟖𝟎𝟎𝐌 𝟏𝟎𝟏: 𝐐&𝐀 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐝𝐢
🗣️“We focus on speed all year round, we're not trying to cram it in the month before a major championship thinking, “oh, damn – we've got to get really quick down the next four weeks!” So my guys are always confident in their ability to run fast and run close to their personal best 200 all year round.”
Read the full interview ⤵️
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In this episode (#294) of The Drive, I speak with Olav Aleksander Bu, an internationally renowned sports scientist acclaimed for his coaching prowess with elite athletes. Olav delves into the intricacies of VO2 max and its profound impact on performance.
bit.ly/3PmLJNo
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Exclusive: How the NSW Milers, a small community athletics meet in Sydney's west, lured world champion Jake Wightman. 👇
#Athletics
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