There’s always someone looking for an easier way. It doesn’t matter what field it’s in, shortcutting is happening. We hear stories of age group athletes taking performance enhancing drugs, what in the hell for? To be recognised by a handful of people as “the winner” of some minor category in a sport most of the population don’t even notice. Last year my sixteen year old  son was asking me about the benefits of taking creatine. His mates at school were all talking about it. They were playing rugby or rowing …

I’ve just read another biographical book, the Lewis Hamilton story. I am always reading biographies of sports and business leaders. I take every opportunity to meet successful people.
They all have a common thread. Attention to detail. In Lewis Hamilton’s story as with Schumaker he is totally professional. He attends to every little detail necessary to be the best he can be. When was first given the chance to drive formular one for McLaren – Mercedes, he introduced himself to every member of the support team and learned everything he could …

Al, always nice to hear from an “ironman fanatic”.
I don’t know how fanatical I am but do show clear symptoms of the atavistic marathon-ironman compulsion. In my opinion, humans are still essentially hunter-gatherers of the East African savannah. Our extraodinary tendency to overeat and store fat for the dry season is one obvious sign of it. Being constantly on the move meant eating and not being eaten, i.e., survival.
So we evolved not only to be able to do ultra events but, mercifully and thankfully, to enjoy them too and find …

“Don’t let the age of your birth certificate be the determining factor of the age of your body”
George Hulse
Mature Aged East Coast Cyco
The very day the Australian Regular Army told me that they had accepted my application to enlist and that I had signed on for six years, I wondered what the hell I had done. Six years! I would be twenty-three by the time my duration was up. Nobody could be that old! In what seemed like a heartbeat in time, I was twenty-seven and had completed three tours …

I have just watched an interview with Simon Evans, Australian Rally Champion.
It’s amazing what we can pick up from different sports and the people who excell at them. Most of the books which I read are biographies of successful people. The common thread, whether the person is a business leader of a champion sportsman, is consistant performance throughout their event/life.
In Simon’s interview he told how he was good at what he did. He was agressive, fast, a risk taker. He would fairly regularly find himself on the wrong side of …