Since February this year, after a bout of something dodgy I picked up in Wanaka, I have struggled to eat certain foods. The GP said…
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Ali’s Adventure – Mixing Things Up
The weather has been pretty amazing leading into autumn with it being dry and sunny here at the top of the South. I’ve dragged in…
View More Ali’s Adventure – Mixing Things UpAli’s Adventure: Specificity Of Training
The closer I get to racing the more specific I try and get my sessions, particularly as the next race is on gravel. Trying to…
View More Ali’s Adventure: Specificity Of TrainingAli’s Adventure – Mud Glorious Mud
It has been challenging to get all the training in this week with kids in tow. The evenings and mornings are so dark and I…
View More Ali’s Adventure – Mud Glorious MudAli’s Adventure – Mental Tenacity
Drought, then rain. The trails are open, but it’s so wet you need goggles out there. So inside the ‘Training Cave’ it is. Day one,…
View More Ali’s Adventure – Mental TenacityAli’s Adventure – Balancing The Parent Thingy
I have my two amazing daughters 50/50 with their dad and it’s hard. I miss them. They truly are my everything. I enjoy being a mum more than anything in this world and it’s the thing I am most proud of accomplishing in my entire life. When I was first thrown into this situation, it was very trying. The weeks without them seemed to take forever to go by. As time has gone on, I now look at the weeks without them as the weeks I can go ‘big’ on training.
View More Ali’s Adventure – Balancing The Parent ThingyAli’s Adventure – Endurance on LCHF
When I was down in Wanaka in January, I picked up a nasty stomach bug. About a week of stomach cramps and not being able to eat anything more exciting than melon and scrambled eggs. Since then I have really struggled to eat anything that resembles carbohydrates, and this is a problem as I am a Vogels and Pics Peanut butter girl as pre-training fuel.
View More Ali’s Adventure – Endurance on LCHFAli’s Adventure – Where there’s a will there’s a way
When you’re living in region that has a declared state of emergency, it becomes a little tricky to find places to train. But, where there’s a will, there is a way!
View More Ali’s Adventure – Where there’s a will there’s a wayAli’s Adventure – K2M: When Life Throws You Lemons Make a Gin & Tonic
Just when you think all your training is going well, life throws you a lemon or a few. However I can still remember a friend…
View More Ali’s Adventure – K2M: When Life Throws You Lemons Make a Gin & TonicAli’s Adventure – Kaiteri to Mapua (K2M) Racing On Gravel
It’s been a wee while since I was given a training programme, being in a ‘racing stable’ under the guidance of a coach was BK…
View More Ali’s Adventure – Kaiteri to Mapua (K2M) Racing On Gravel