‘You push your boundaries, then you walk away going ‘wow’. Your limits are pushed further each time and you can stretch those boundaries further and further each time. But you’ve got to have the courage to do it. You’ve gotta put yourself out of your comfort zone. And it’s horrible and it’s scary. But you’ve […]
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“Training for any event is so so wonderful and translates into real life….When you set your mind to doing that and you achieve that, it’s such a great confidence builder. It really does help you prove to yourself that you can set a goal, and you work towards it and you can achieve it.”I’ve spoken […]
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(c) Jeff Clark Photography…’ you are capable of so much more than you think. And regardless of your life circumstances, if you want something enough, you really can do it.’You’ll meet Kate Ross on Sparta Chicks Radio this week. An age group mountain biker and mum of 3 in her 40s, Kate was scrolling through Instagram […]
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Grant Giles is obsessed with what happens between an athlete’s ears. Grant has 25+ years of experience in triathlons, starting with a 14 year career as an elite athlete. He then turned to coaching and ultimately ran a full time squad at Lennox Head on the NSW North Coast where he developed some of Australia’s most […]
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‘…this is the trouble with endurance sports; that you’ve got time to be thinking negative thoughts and that can have a big detriment on your race.’I was introduced to Ellie Greenwood by a mutual friend who said of Ellie: she was ’a tremendous athlete, high-performance coach, avid volunteer, community ambassador, engaging storyteller, she is an […]
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“What can I do here? What can I change? What am I in control of? What can I affect? What can I impact?”This week on Sparta Chicks Radio you’ll meet mountain biker and award-winning travel journalist, Tracey Croke. If you follow Tracey on social media, you would have seen stunning photos from her work assignments in […]
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“I’m just so passionate that thing where you learn how, with your mind and with your spirit, to push yourself past what you think you can do. That, to me, is just one of the greatest things you can learn.”This week Hayley Talbot returns to join me on Sparta Chicks Radio. My guest on episode #17 […]
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“You can take on things that you think are much bigger than yourself, because you grow in the process.”Back in 2007, Heather Hawkins was by her own admission, a desperately unfit and busy mum of 2. Then one day she visited her doctor after noticing some unusual symptoms she initially attributed to the ‘middle age’ spread, […]
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“While many people would say that cystic fibrosis held me back from winning races and winning a World Championship, I say no – it didn’t hold me back. It actually probably elevated my game. And I probably won a lot more races than I would have because I had a tremendous reason to be on […]
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“I’ve learnt that I’m a lot stronger than I thought I was. That I wasn’t a fraud….and it’s given me a lot of confidence to try things, even if I don’t have all the answers. And not be scared of what people think.” This week on Sparta Chicks Radio, I’m delighted to introduce you to Steph […]
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