In the beginning, Episode 71 Corning, what's happened to your face? You, you, we. We should. Come on, we should. Settle down. It was a rough night. We not that rough. We should stay up the top. You're operating under a little bit of duress today. I was. I was actually, I was just above your studios. Oh, yeah, my dentist. Yeah. By the way, everyone, Yeah, I'm kind of like got a little bit of a Courtney droop over here.
I had a few few feelings I had to catch up on from pre Christmas. If you're watching the video, Courtney hasn't had a stroke. He's just, he's just look back. Can you just, can you tell? Can you tell? It can tell a little bit, yeah. Everybody out there I. Just don't want to have a drink because this is gonna go straight. Down everybody out there will sympathise with. I didn't ask for an extra hour and Liam's pushed me. Terrible. We got things to talk about, things to get to.
Firstly, Australia Day event, where were you? I thought I'd see you. No, barely runs where? Did I do Australia Day? Where were you? Where were you? I was expecting. You know what? Australia Day. Mm Hmm. Yeah, one, I'm not happy that Australia Day fell on my normal Monday morning swim social group. Yes, because we missed out on it that way. Great event though. I was down at the Spit doing a run.
OK, so my son had rowing training at 5:00 AM and I dropped, did the drop off and what if he went out to the forest? I don't have to check my Strava. I can't remember exactly. What I can remember at Australia Day is we had a great day out here on the lake just. Perfect condition. Perfect conditions. It was a beautiful day last. Sunday the water was I was out on the Broadwater when I jumping Penway the day before and it was
busy. But Australia Day was ridiculous, so it should be. That's the that's the day when it's conditions like it was on the Gold Coast, the barely swim run event. Yeah, tell me all your. Put on by put on by friend of the show Ty Dalker, it was it did an amazing job. You're the. You're the headline for this. Well, right, this is where we need to. This is what I want to address. Put on by Ty Dalker, headline by. By by Liam. Flanagan by Hot Tomatoes.
Yeah, so there's a couple of stories here, firstly stitched up by the Gold Coast Bulletin, the paper, the local rag up here. I wasn't aware of this until you sent me. Well, I would never have been, but my dad, who still reads papers made me made me aware of it. I you send me this message of a photo of me from last year's event. Yep. Now, this time last year I was going all right, but I wasn't in great nick.
And in these runs from events, you get to my it's like you're wearing a, a surf series, Rashi. So you're saying you weren't happy with your parents? I was not. Happy with the I did not clear that photo and they've gone with the caption of Triple M Gold's Liam Flanagan will be taking to the start line for the barely swim run. I didn't compete either, so it's fake news.
But also not only that reading it Liam Flanagan headline act and then by the way, Matt Hauser might show and but he will be up against it against defending champion. The bloke who won it again, Whose name? Copeland. Brandon Copeland. I was wrong. That's the ridiculous part about this. Good mates go to the distance Is the good mates to go distance is the headline of this article.
It opens with Matt Hauser is the reigning world triathlon champion, but he won't be favourite going into the annual Australia Day Billy Swim run if he opts to toe the line. If you stop there and you see the photo of me, it makes it seem like I'm about to knock Matt Hauser off in a run swim event. Yeah, well it it wasn't me. Brandon Copeland, six time champion, won it again was very impressive. Matt did not compete.
Matt Hauser didn't take the line, nor did I Matt, I assume, pulled out because he was nervous that I was going to knock him off. He saw the picture and went, jeez, he's looking fit. But I, I went down such a great event, amazing event. Shout out to Ty and the whole crew that put that event on. Do you know, just quickly while we're talking about these sort of events, Josh Minogue, he's a great commentator. I was here.
Josh was Josh was doing it, Josh was doing the the finish line and start line with Ty and Ty's great as well. Yeah, but I listen to Josh and Josh is a former calling out a gold winner. He's, you know, fantastic competitor. He runs the sub three marathon as well. But listening to Josh, the way he talks about the sport on the coverage of the Shoreham partners on series, I think he's a fantastic sports commentator. I think he does a really, really good job as.
Soon, as you said, then he runs the sub three and he's an Iron Man upper body man or like a favourite. Exactly gotta do it. I'm sick of this apex this way. We are gonna talk about to the AP S the Jesus. Great event. My daughter and my niece both took part in the kids 400 metre wide, 400 metre run race. They had a fantastic time. Ty did make one area when he I got down there and he grabbed me for a quick chat on the microphone and he introduced me as hot tomatoes.
Liam Flanagan. I said, Ty, you put on a great event. You're terrible at remembering things though 'cause I work for the other station. Question for you. Oh quickly. Yep. Aspen Addison Anderson. Anderson. Yeah. The young woman that took out the the the women's race. Oh. She won, she won. That's who I've been sparring with on a Tuesday morning. Oh my goodness, what an athlete. Yeah, what that was. I was blown away. She is 'cause she's what, 17 or something or 1818 now? Maybe not.
That's the first time. And everyone was down there was raving about what an athlete. And now that you mentioned you're the one, she was the one. You've kind of been stalking around the Not in that way, but you know what I mean from a pacing perspective. So I I actually now let me think, no, I went to the 1996 or 7, maybe 95 something around there Junior World chance with her father. Yeah, so we're getting into that area where the kids are the your, your peers are starting hard.
Yeah, yeah, but Cam actually comes down and runs as well, so right still goes alright. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like he's in the thick of it too, so. No, it, it was an amazing event, great conditions, lots, just really a a great way. It's a new tradition for my family on Australia Day now like we I was in last year, we were down there again this year. My daughter wants to do the 200
metre swim 2K race. Next year she'll be 10 and my wife want it's just a great, it is our tradition now for Australia Day. The other thing that came out of Australia Day, I bumped into one Rick Atkinson. Yeah, my brother. Your brother and I said to Rick, how's his running going? He's got a little bit of a hamstring tendinopathy going on at the moment.
So yeah, kniggles. Kniggles and what he said to me though, which I love, which I said I'm definitely bringing up with Courtney is that he said as I as I'm suffering an injury in my runnings tailing Courtney's only going up and up. And I was like, really, what makes you say that? He's like, you can always tell Courtney's going well by the way he chirps, Start session, starts heckling people. Now, is this true? Would you say this is a fair
representation of are you? Is your mood and your level of chat representative of how well you're going? I think. Mood 100% right, 100% mood. But it's I wouldn't call it heckling, but I definitely, I love competition. So they're not. So once I'm once I'm running and then I can start to actually look at people and go, OK, you're you're my next start. Yeah. What are you doing? What? Yeah, I just loved it 'cause I. 'Cause when you're like jogging around, yeah, you're useless,
right? Yeah, I shouldn't say you're useless. You're still running. But like, for me, it's, oh, I can't, you know, we just talked about Cam Anderson. Yeah, You know, I'm running around the track. I can't even like put in the extra effort to try and keep up and be competitive and now it's kidding there. Yeah, no, Rick was quick to say, yeah, Courtney is. He's going well. And there's nothing worse when someone else you're talking to
is also in the dumps. Because I've been in the, you know, I've been the one in the dumps for the last year with my running, you know, with the stress fractures and some other things going on. Hey. But Touchwood, Edgewood, don't get too cocky. Yep, Never, never, never, never get too cocky. Never, because the running gods are fickle, yes, and they will
strike you down. But Australia Day, that Billy Swim run if you ever get the chance to be on the Goldie and you're not a local on Austria to be up here on Australia Day, could not recommend that event enough. It's. Fantastic. It's wonderful. I mean, to even just get get to race in that little, you know, gem part of the world. Yeah. Brilliant. Yeah. Yeah. Well done Ty. Well done, Ty.
Well done to everybody that was involved with putting that one on. I will let's let's segue into the event, the next event I guess, which is the T100 fast approaching the 10K race. I bumped into Trent from Gold Coast Physio and he he's target on my back. Yeah, he's. For this 10K, Yep, well and truly 10K. You've got a few there who are racing you. Yeah. So do you feel? Some pressure. No, I'm, I'm gonna make this balloon thing happen, though. I'm gonna, I'm gonna make this balloon.
We don't. We don't want excuses about you had to carry a balloon. Aerodynamics. There will be no excuse about balloon. In fact, maybe that's the novelty of. It so on the balloon and we're just gonna have can you beat me? Hey, tell me what I should put on the balloon? You're not gonna really run like a balloon. I'm not. Why not? I'm not gonna allow you to run. With a, why not? I'm happy you can run with a shirt if you want to. If you want to print a shirt like Can you beat me?
I'd like to can we can we game a fight somehow so that if I do wear a shirt, it's like a pin in the tail on the donkey shirt where as you run past you have to put your name like a. Sticker Yeah, I'm going to put my foot down. No, No balloons. No balloons, No balloons. Such a. Small sport? No, no. The the Peter 100. Run problem. Fast approaching.
I thought it was interesting at the moment because with all the despite the when we'll get to a bit to the trail, I've got some trail updates for everybody because I've had a lot of people hitting me up asking about how the mile is going. I've got some updates that's coming up. I'm still trying to incorporate a tempo interval session into my week. Yep, my Monday runs at the moment are I'm I'm running. Fast. So give us the example. Well, just do what was what was
the last? One you did did two weeks ago, it was a Mona. I just said I put a Mona session in. Most recently I went with AI, did 12 KS, I did 4 KS sort of a cruising warm up pace. Got a 5 minutes 515 then I did the next 6 at sub 430 pace. I just put in some like for me which I probably averaged around 420 / 6 KS and then did a 2K warm like just cool down. So for the Mona you average. Sorry so that that was the Mona I I was trying to keep my 92nd minute long intervals around sub
4 minute case. But this is most recently on my Monday session. I did A12K run, 4K warm up, six Ki guess tempo you'd call it around 420 pace and then a 2K cooldown. So I'm still trying to keep some speed runs in my week because basically my week is focused on kilometres and elevation. So that's interesting. So you choose in that type of session to pick a distance to
run. So you go off your watch to go I'm going to run 6K, Yeah. And you run to a instead of going I'm going to run for a duration 20 minutes. Yeah. I mean, there's no right or wrong. Yeah, I just, it's interesting because like. Well, it's, I guess it hasn't been those speed sessions haven't been so much a a planned. They haven't been a a planned training session. It's not a training session as
such. It's me mentally breaking up the case they're on. Yeah, because most like, you know, yesterday I did 11 KS at 5:15 pace. This weekend I'll do back to back kind of 20 K plus days with elevation. So they'll be walking in there and they'll be and it's, it's a grind. Yep. I'm choosing to incorporate that Monday session for fun. So you do that Monday though off say like this weekend you said you're going to do two 20s. Yep. You then try and run the Monday off. Yeah, that's risky.
Why is that? You want to give yourself like treating the long run. So even if you're running a longer run easier, yeah, it's still should be a fair bit longer than what you'd normally do. And so you still want to allow the lakes to have a recovery after that if you can jump into too much speed, so. You'd say take the Monday off. Yeah, you. And then run back to Tuesday. OK, Yeah. Oh, I'll just try that. Just just risk avoidance when we're talking about. Good point going down here.
Good point, especially if you do a like 2 longer days. Well, this is be the first weekend I try for two longer days. That's the. Plan. You definitely want to give yourself bit of space and. I I think regardless of days the point is at the moment I'm trying to just include keep that tempo E session for fun. Yep, because running slow is what I need to be doing now. It's time on feet and it's. Just breaks it up. But keeping that tempo run
earlier in my week is fun. I'm enjoying keeping up that that speed run in my week. I hear you. I'm not. We'll get back. I'll keep keep going on yours, but I'll just jump in because I, I hear you 100%. And a very similar thing. I mean, I've been in Perth for this week and I was like, I'd done my, I'd push my speed session to Monday because I knew I'd have to travel on the Tuesday. So Wednesday morning I got off and I'm like, what am I going to do? I'm on my own.
I'm, you know, I haven't really got anything too planned, But also I don't want to just run an hour. No. So what I ended up doing was running 8K around Swan Lake or what's the, what's the main lake
in Perth there in the city. I ran around the path around there for 8K. So I did pick a distance and then tempoed back and just, you know, I've, I've actually ran into a heart rate, but just purely, and that was just mental to get, you know, I didn't really have a plan to do a session, but it was like at least broke it up for me. It's still it. We sort of, I love, I love the way you and I talk about running.
I really enjoy talking about running like this because I think we go off into specific niches, we talk shoes and all that sort of stuff. But I think we still come back to the underpinning thing about running, which is that it's good for you, It's good for your head, it's good for your body. And, and, and it doesn't, not every session needs to be targeted to achieving a physical training goal. Sometimes just good for your head. Yeah, go and run fast or run long or do something.
Mix it up a little bit. Going back to the T100 though, because we're fast approaching it's, I actually had a meeting with, there's a, for those that aren't on the Gold Coast or aren't familiar with the Goldie, there's a big supermarket, big shopping centre area called Paradise Centre, right on the front basically where the Surfers Paradise sign is. It's on Cavil Mall, right? And we actually had a meeting
there for for some work stuff. And I was talking with someone who's involved with the Paradise Centre and they are pumped. Are they pumped? They're so excited about this event. It's been. It's been busy down there. Oh, when did I run? Probably a couple of weekends ago. I ran through there. I think it might have been like a Saturday arvo or a Sunday arvo and how they've they've, you can't drive through there. Anymore pedestrian mall now.
Yeah, and they've put like nearly like a beach chairs in and sand across the road and a whole range of things. It was pumping. It was pumping like I ran through there kind of, you know, when you're running in a, we've talked about this running in a spot you probably shouldn't be. Yep, I kind of ran through there going you, you're a bit of a way to run through here right at the moment. Like I should shouldn't have ducked down the side Rd.
I'm pretty sure it remains A pedestrian mall through to the end of March. OK. Because there's a trial, right? It is a trial that they've extended. So I think for the T100 it is likely it'll still be a pedestrian. So there'll be cars or anything on that, which is great news. But I was also speaking to the big boss of the T100 here on the Gold Coast who also runs the Gold Coast Marathon and the
excitement continues to build. Like this is going to be such a, an, I don't think people realise what is coming like in a, in a good way. Like it's one of those things where some people will know what it's about, some people know what it looks like overseas and at different events, but I think they'll be really surprised in a good way at what this event is for the Gold Coast. Yeah. Do you know what I like about it? Is that obviously the face of it, it's this triathlon series
which has got global appeal. It has global appeal mainly for long distance. So like the 100 KS. Yep, more long distance athletes. Then they've obviously got the Olympic distance triathlon, which attracts the more localised triathletes who may not want to go up to that long distance but then completely
separate. You don't have to, you don't have to have a care about triathlon and you can come and join in and just treat it like we like to a degree as a run and it's a 10K run to us. And that's what we're turning up for. And I'm loving at the moment because what I'm, what I'm realising is 10K is a great distance. You can kind of make a last minute call on. I can jump in, you know, I can
still do it now. You can still end up and jump in and race your mates and it's over a distance where you know you don't have. It's not like the marathon where you've had to put in the 16 weeks or 20 weeks of prep. You can just get in there and have a shot. And I'm hearing a lot of guys at the like when I say last minute, we're getting into the last months kind of starting now to go, oh, am I coming? Actually, I'll race Liam. Well, I won't be wearing a balloon, Courtney said.
No 20, just remind everybody who's jumping in. The 22nd of March is the date of this 10K race. It's getting close. I need more time. It's 80 bucks, which from a race entry perspective is so affordable in on the running landscape these days. We're seeing prices for events get up there for 80 bucks. That is, I mean, that's a night out. It's it's less than a night out for most people.
So you save one night out. You sign up for this 10K run on Sunday the 22nd of March. If you are going to register, make sure you register as as part of in the beginning when you do register, and we will, we'll see you there on the day. And that 80 bucks gets your T-shirt, the finish's medal, results, all that sort of stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all that. All entries include a raised T shirt and a finish's medal as well. So for 80 bucks, let's say 40 bucks for the price of the T shirt.
And then you get to show off to all your mates at work on the Monday morning 'cause you're wearing it. You should be like, OK, so T100, are you prepared to clear, to declare your time yet? No. When will you declare your time 0? You've got to declare OK, no I. Don't need to declare it, you have to. I told you I'm in a race. OK. I throw my glove down. Well, you throw it at Tim. Yes, exactly. I throw my glove down and and the jewel's been accepted. Have you heard from Tim? Yes, this week.
What's the chat like been like? Yeah, yeah, I've got some info about because he's chimed in about our Apex stuff as well. But let's get to the end of it. The the the chit chat around the run. Like I'm not going into this as a favourite. You're kidding. No, no, no. You're the, You're the outside I. Believe I'm the underdog here? Oh. Hold on, hold on.
But is this one of those things, like, is this one of those things where, like, you know, the Brisbane Lions put them to try to position Wayne Bennett always positions his team as the underdog? Maybe, yeah. But. No, no, no. In this case, I if we went on times as of today. I'm you're the outside. I'm the outside OK alright, I reckon I'm I'm a decent out C1. 100 go sign up, challenge your mate, make it a race. This is. Challenge your mate, challenge your mate.
That's that's what, that's what we had the fun bit of it. Like, you know, times, times mean times don't matter, right? Like for people who are interested in actually competing, times matter. But racing's way more. But on the scoreboard there's no pictures on scorecards and if your scorecard over your mate reads one, nil. Yep. And then there's there's no debating over this Strava time, finish time. I have to run too far around the water station or none of this.
It's just like, did you win or not? Yeah, yeah, I love that. That's great. All right, I'm gonna let you take the lead on Apex athletes because I feel like you've had enough of it already. We've only been talking about this thing for about a week and 1/2 this. Is this is quickly falling into the the hybrid? Oh no, yeah, I mean the the the
chat around it for sure. Catch So for those playing catch up, maybe this is your first time at it in the beginning and if we if it is welcome, subscribe, you'll love it. Apex Athlete was a concept introduced by English fellow by the name of Spencer Matthews. The proposition was an athlete that can run a sub 255 marathon. 250. Is it sub 250? Yep. Jeez. Sub 250 marathon and bench press. 110 kilos, 10 reps Yeah, one set. Yeah, So everyone who's interested is more hybrid.
This is this is an interesting runners, runners aren't interested. We're probably we're probably losing people at the moment talking about this. But there is a certain group who are very, very committed and interested in this. And it's that same group that we talk about with the the higher up there. Yeah, I mean it's higher. Well, because, and this is the way I looked at it is you kind of you're trying to do 2 things, you're trying to average out two things, right. Yeah. So.
So you're mastering none? Yeah, you're right, now that I think about it like that. So 'cause the, the, the, the purpose of it is to do it at the same time, right? So what I'm here getting, I mean, I've got messages all week. I've got a few here that we'll, we'll go through. But I'm getting people writing go, I can do this for bench press. I can run this, but no one's actually kind of computing. But I've got to do it at the same time because no one really,
no one attempts that. They're all talking about my PBS. Right. OK, I do believe after chatting to some people, and this is my personal thought of just taking in the information because like I said last week, I've got no idea about bench pressing. Actually Tim did give me a, a guide on this. Do you want to know what I, he reckons I could do? Yes, please bench press. Hang on, hang on, where are we? He reckons I'd be benching 45 to 50 for 10, no, for 10.
Don't laugh, don't laugh Liam, because you've also got caught. I've also had people, I'm not going to mention names, but I've also had people calling you out. Sorry. Saying there's There's no way. We need proof that you can do 1. 10 in one Rep for one Rep we. Need we need a video proof on that? I've had a few people call you out on that. But yeah, Tim reckons I could go probably 45 to 50 for 10. OK 1.5 body weight bench for one Rep is elite in standard high performance.
Sport say that again. So 1.5 of your body weight. So one 1.5 times your body weight. Yep. For one Rep is elite standard in high performance sport. OK, So what are you? Oh. I'm about 78 kilos right now. What's the mass on that? 35 + 4 is 39, so I said 117. I can't do that. Well, I can't do one. You're close. I can't do 1.5 but. You're close. You're you're, you're elite. You're I'm calling that elite Liam. I'm saying though, the 250's too easy in this comp.
You don't think the the running benchmark's high enough? I think the run you think we need to pivot the running benchmark and adjust the weightlifting benchmark. All right. I like this. Yeah. OK. What would you pivot the rundown time because? I called. I called out a few bigger fellas and like to see what they thought on this. Yeah, and I was actually surprised at how quickly they'd all run marathons. OK, so you think the running
benchmark? I think they've like as like really, I mean when I say larger guys like just. Solid big frames. Like strong dudes, like they're doing the marathon element of it a lot easier than the the 10 reps. Gotcha. So I believe it should be more lots if you're talking about like the elite of the lead 50 in the world and maybe it needs to be skewed down towards 2 under 24240. Yeah, yeah. With, with the equivalent of what is seems to be correct on the benchmark for the the world.
And and then we will have no one achieving it. I love it. No, no, no, no, I I truly believe people will still achieve it. But we're talking about those finite numbers. I actually the running's too. Easy. Too easy. For what they are, same. That's good luck that we mentioned last week. Some questions. Yeah, he ended up, we messaged him last week in the chat. He got back to me and he was like, yeah, he didn't believe he he was probably in that like
he'd have to train to do that. But he reckons he's closer to the weights than he would be ever to the 250. OK. But he did call out and he said Ethan Reed. Yeah, Big East. Might be the one guy he thinks they. Could run the time and lift the weights. Might with the right training and the right. Fit This is Ethan Reid, the Unicorn who that won the 2K time trial at the Suns preseason. He's a 200 centimetre unit who
runs a 555 in the 2K time trial. Yep just quickly I have messaged my gym, I have messaged momentum and said please remind me to attempt A1 by 110K Rep next week on the bench press with video. I will bring the video proof next week. To all you haters out there, all you doubters. And if I don't bring it, it's 'cause I couldn't get it done. Talking about talking about haters is a good segue to around the haters. And keeping on this topic, did you see Justin Truitt? Yeah, yeah.
And he's. This feels like the apex athlete has turned into the Justin Truitt like concept because everybody's referencing him. Yeah. Are they? Yeah. Well, they. So Jacobs wrote in and said, you know, he's the one guy that he reckons he could, you know, on the planet that could do it, obviously now. This is the son of Cam. Cam Hanes. Yep. True Joey roles. Yep. Brian Yep. So I actually listened on the way home.
I got into the airport late last night and listened to the podcast with Cam about this on the way home last night. And look, I he he's just putting it out there and going for a goal. Like he hasn't gone anywhere near that at this stage, but he's saying like I've got two years. I'm gonna he was it when he broke the 24 hour pull up record? Was that Caines at that time, Caine Eckstein's or someone else Broken it, I think. Truitt took it off Goggins.
There's different. I know Kane Eckstein had a pull up world record. I can't quite keep track of which one he had, but I know that Goggins had one, I know that Truett had one, and. He went after Goggins OK. But did Kane? Kane had a pull up world record. He did it at PAC Fair I. Thought it was the 20. Four. It might be. Yeah, it might be. I'll look it up anyway.
They're. Calling him out as like one that you know, possibly is in this other area and then the other one was Jared Shaw wrote in. He loved episodes every week. But he's an ex footy player right? Local footy player and the footy players all love this one as he plays in the area. Like even the elite players as well he was saying. He reckons that in the mid 90s, even into the early 2000s you'd would have found more players being able to bench that. He reckons they were, like
always, stronger. At that point, yeah. But you know, with the running game over the last 15 years, they obviously carried, yeah, carried a lot less. Yeah, spot on. Kane did have it. True, it took it back. So he broke Kane's. He broke Kane's record. Kane had in 2016. Kane had the in 2014. He broke the world record for pull ups. He lost it in 2016. He got it back doing 7620. Truitt now holds the Truitt Haynes now holds holds that world record 10,000.
He did in 24 hours 10,000 and one pull ups. Sorry, I was saying Justin Truitt. Truitt. True, just Truitt is his Instagram handle. True Kane is is is his name. But yeah, so Kane that's hey speaks to the athlete Kane Kane XL and he is an animal. Just also shows the power of America like you know, the way and we we talk about them all.
It's not like campaigns now, Truitt and you know, Jelly roll all these guys in America, just the like the audience and how you know, big it is and Kane was in that you know, we're talking Goggins Kane and then. Kane next time is that guy he. Is that guy, but he hasn't got what I'm saying is being down here in ounces you just don't get necessarily the access or the platform to be able to go out and we. This is something which I think we the nature of social media
with fitness. Fitness has never been more of an industry than it is now, right? Fitness is an industry now. It's not Nike and these brands have always been big. But now just being fit in itself can be a business. And I think Kane's probably like, if you were to look around Australia in terms of people that have made being fit a business, Kane's probably a good example of someone who was an elite athlete, won the calling. Like he's, you know, there's no questioning his calibre.
But now he's gone away and he's involved with Doctor Hydra and he's taken the idea of being a fit person and made it into a business for himself. So, but you're right, we just, I mean, if it, if it comes down to sheer numbers, Australians are never going to be able to compete against the American machine because it's just more of them. And they just, and they also do it differently.
It's they don't have that tall poppy syndrome that, that we have here in Australia, which I think is, is not as bad as it once was, But we still have that notion of stay humble. Don't you know? Never, you know, never get too happy with who you are and where you're at? Yeah, I mean, if Truitt was an Aussie and did that, what would have been the reaction? Oh, if true, he would be absolutely crucified. Yeah, different, different
mentalities, right? That country, different culture, and I'm not saying one's better than the other, but it's just different. Well, it's different. I mean, it's a lot more positive over there, but they were talking this of this podcast. I was listening to you last night. They were talking about a lot of, I suppose there's runners who they call it a gatekeeping. I don't know what. That's a new word to me, which has only happened in the last year or two.
And it's like a social media phenomenon word, isn't it? Gatekeeping, gatekeeping, gatekeeping running like. Yeah. Whatever. But yeah, yeah, he's obviously got a few runners out of got their nose. Out now speaking about running, going back to taking him back to the, to the running side of things quickly. I do want to, I mean, last week we mentioned I proposed the idea of Bunnings getting behind a marathon here in Australia because in Kyoto Nintendo had
embraced that. Kathleen has messaged us, commented the Cadbury Marathon in Hobart has been around since the 80s. Yep, a complete oversight on on my behalf. Yeah. You can't find a more left field sponsor for a marathon than a chocolate manufacturer. Thank you Kathleen for giving us a heads up on that one. Now is Cadbury. They definitely got a factory down there. Cadbury what? What is it? Is it like? Is it founded down it? Was well sorry, it was founded in England.
Oh. But it's first sight in Australia was in Tasmania. OK, so that was what we were talking about, Yeah, if you've got the right localised, you know, if you want to support your community, yeah, support where it comes from. That's it's. It's exactly it's. I'm all in. I'd eat chocolate on a marathon, I reckon nearly. I will if I had, if I had a few little Fredos as you ran through. I'm already, you know, pre pre, pre opened, pre opened. London Marathon 2000 and 11.
I ran the London Marathon in 2011 off about two months training. I was I had had for anybody who's spent any time over in London, they will understand this term. I had had the Heathrow injection. I was as heavy as I've ever been and I was just kind of embracing the idea of running. Explain the Heathrow injection. Heathrow injection is an is an idea that Aussies might go over there and get fat. Drink would drink way too much. Because they drink way too much.
It's cold outside, it's dark. OK. We go from living our outdoorsy lifestyle here in Australia. You go overseas, you get the Heathrow injection and you're 5 kilos heavier like that. I'd had the Heathrow injection. I signed up for the marathon late two months training. I've told this story before here, but I was running without a watch. I was doing the maths in my head as I went through checkpoints and suddenly like 15 KS and I thought I was on pace to run a 240 marathon.
I realised I was just doing the maths all wrong. And the most humbling moment of that marathon was when I in the last five KS, someone dressed as a carrot went running past me and was like keep going mate and I'm like get stuffed carrot. But I will never forget the taste. I'm about 30 KS in. I've been eating nothing but like snakes or red frogs and I had that real sugary taste in my mouth with all the hydrolite drinks that were being.
Served on the way real. Sugary somebody gave me and this is one of the great things about and this is what Sydney's aiming for and I think it's what Gold Coast probably wants to try and become as well. But the atmosphere along the sidelines, somebody about 30 KS in just handed me a fun size Mars bar. I will never forget the taste of that because that chocolate taste breaking up 30 kilometres worth of like lollies. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was, it was a dream. It was the best Mars bar.
It's I don't Remember Me, every chocolate bar I've ever eaten, but I will never forget that fun sized Mars bar that someone handed me on the side of the road 30 KS into. The I I wasn't joking about, I'd take the chocolate out. I raced, I was racing and P and anyone in triathlon who followed a like like followed me a little bit through triathlon will actually probably remember some. I've got photos.
I used to strap some Mars bars to the front of my aero bars when I was doing Halfway Man's. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like I went through a good phase of winning half Iman's and I was taking in a Mars bar or two just because it's the same thing I used to. I mean, I used to have a lot of sports drink as well, but I just used to like to mix it up in the Mars bar at the time, you know, if I looked at it now, nutrition wise, probably not the best thing, but it just, it kind of
worked. It filled me up. I enjoyed the taste. The problem was I did it in Cannes though. I'm one of the original Cannes half Iman's, and by the time I got to the, the electrical tape was around it. It just slowly disintegrated. By the time I got to it, it was just like a slush. I mean, I still got through half of it, but. Did Mars ever come to you with any? Cash. No, no, see.
You that's where you should have gone the Liam Adams route and just blacked out the the the the wrapper so they didn't know what you were drinking or eating. I was happy to. I was happy to give them a bit. That's great. I love that. But yeah, so thank you to Kathleen for shouting out the the Cadbury Marathon. Yes, it happens. Stand in Hobart because it's a good one. Yeah, let's move on. You got some audio here. Yeah, I've actually we've, we've got. It's about you, Liam, our
friend. Hello boys, long time listener, third time caller. Just checking in, seeing how Liam's training's going. We're all very excited to see how he's coming along for 160 kilometres in, what, like four months? Yeah. Come on, Flanner, fill us in. Tell us what your longest runs been. Tell us what your programme looks like. Keep us updated.
We're excited. Oh, I think I'm even going to make the trip out to the Blue Mountains at the finish line, help you crawl across it. Bloody exciting, mate. I love that you picked the hardest thing in the world to do and you're taking it on. You're taking it on. That is, that is friend of the pod ready people might know ready from Bondo Rescue. He's now one of the he's one of the big dogs involved with AG1. Thank you, Ready.
And that Ready's also copped a bit of flak because some people thought he wasn't supporting me when I first signed up for this model thing 'cause he was. Being you've definitely got 2 camps here Liam, you've got people who are just full support, loving, everyone's supporting you, don't get us wrong. No, no. But there's the there's some of us who are probably sitting on the, the, the, the threshold, the line side of realism.
Yep. And then there's others who are sitting on the side of yeah, great. Just go for it. Yeah. And I feel like you're, you're on that side of realism that's sort of like you're, you're questioning me. I'm probably not on the fence. I'm probably on the right hand side, yes. So let me give you a trail update. Let me talk trail with you for everyone for a bit. A bit of trail.
Training is going well, my body feels good, legs feel great, the the build is on and the build is going really it's that lovely line you want to see as you build up. There's no sharp in increases. As you always say to me, give me details Liam, Pete, that this is what Reed is calling out. We want OK what? Give us some weekly. Let me, let me walk you through it, let me walk you through it. So we'll go back to we'll work on a, we'll go on a four week
block, right. This is this is week four of a four week block anyway. So week 1 of this four week block was 56 KS with 1200 metres elevation. Week 2 was 53 KS with 1000 metres elevation. Last week was 60 KS with 1100 metres elevation. This week will be 70 KS with around 1300 metres elevation. It's that slow build of consistency. That's the data. And so time on legs, I'm now averaging 6 hours plus running a week at the moment of time on feet. My longest run.
Look, I haven't had a really long run yet. At the moment my longest run today is about 23 KS. Yep. So there's not a huge long day out on feet yet. Those are coming. I'm not rushing into those. There's no need for me to go out and spend 8 hours out on a trail. How long is it to a UTA? 4 months, OK, I've got 16 weeks. Yeah. So I'm building along slowly what I'm, what I'll, I'll share with you today and what I'll and what I'm going to start doing more and more.
And I mentioned people at Holly Ransom and, and some other experts out there in the trail space. I am reaching out to these people and I'm getting with those people. I'm asking for a bit more information and some advice, but I've also got a few. I'm asking people that have run these things before, hey, if I, if you're only allowed to give me one piece of advice for the Mila, Yep, training race day, whatever it is, what would it be? So I've got 2 to share with you
today. OK, not intentionally. They're both from people called Ben. First one is from Ben Ferreff. Now Ben and I ran together for a little bit in the Trails Border Trail last weekend. I bumped into Benny. He was out there with his young fella. Great to see his young fella. I think his name was Hunter. Apologies if I haven't got that
right. Ben. Ben and I ran along for a while. He's a big fan of the podcast, listens all the time and he's done mile as before he ran his Costa Cosi, the yeah, the flat 240 Ki think, well, not flat, but flatter than the mile is what he said. And I said, mate, give me one piece of advice. And the one thing Ben said was you can never do enough elevation in your training. You cannot do enough elevation. Ben said get to a gym, turn on the Stairmaster and forget about
everything. He's like, you just want to lock into the Stairmaster. Yeah, right. Just he he said. Go inside. He, well, he said, start adding it into your, your block. You just wanted ours. He's like, if you can just go in and he's like, set the treadmill to the highest incline and walk. So that was Ben's Stairmaster. Or treadmill. Oh yeah, yeah, whatever. He's like you just said you will not be able to do enough elevation in this training block. OK And I was like and I was like
fantastic. OK. That's been ferrous that. Doesn't excite you to go on. On no no makes me sick, makes me like, makes me feel ill. Going inside. To do. I don't want to do that at all. No, I have intentions to. I have a set of stairs near me down at Grumman there and I'm going to live on those for a. Bit it is, Yeah, it isn't the same. As a stem, As continuous climbing. I understand why he's saying going to the into inside the door continuous.
Yeah, because you can just do it non stop, just grind up. Yeah and even like when you find, you know, if you're out the back of Telly Valley or somewhere and we got like, you know, you can go up pretty much 7K ish six to seven K It's still after that six to seven K, you still would have come back down. He's still got the rest. Which isn't a bad thing as well because there's there's dissent in this UTA mylar as well.
Isn't a bad thing, but if you're wanting to get like strength over time from, you know, if you're just going to do it for an hour or something. Speaking of Speaking of roots, he also has sent me a root. Do you know Polly's loop? Yep. He sent me Polly's loop and he said, mate, go out there and plan for three loops of that. Yeah, be a great training. So good, yeah, Steep, steep sections. Yeah, that's come from Benny Ferris. So thank you Ben.
I will be I'll report back as soon as I've incorporated Polly's Loop. And then this one comes from Ben Fits. Ben Fits, who's a member of the Runners in the Dark crew down in Sydney. He was my friend last year that did the Mylar and and broke like his knee broke. He finished, but I, I, I shared it. I shared his reaction and response and review of the Milo last year for those that don't remember it. And I hit Ben up again and Ben's, Ben said he's going to come out and, and crew and help
and support for me in the race. And I said, mate, give me your top training trip, your top training tip. Ben's tip. I wish I trained heavier legs, big gears on the stationary bike or more stair stepper. So as you know, my legs were my biggest weakness. There are so many stairs in the race. So same thing as other Ben? Yes, stairs, stair training, stairs training, stair training. So this is good for me. I'm four weeks, I'm four months out.
And then interestingly, Ben also threw me a golden rule for race day. Start slow, keep the pace easy all day. Don't get swept up in all the excitement of the start. You'll be feeling super fit but rein it in. Don't run a sub 4-5 minute case straight from the get go. It's a long day. No, I mean that it seems common sense it. Seems common sense, but I everyone knows that start line vibe. Everyone knows that start line.
Feeling if you think of how slow and this isn't just for a mile like this can be for, you know, 50, it can be for any race really. But if you think about how slow or how much you slowed down in majority of races at the end and you thought well, if I didn't go out that hard for that first bit of the start, but it is just that's racing it's. It's a it's a brain exercise. It's so hard to pull it in, reel it in. I was just looking at Pollys.
So Pollys is act is out. Is it the base of Springbrook climb? Yeah, if if you go in there, there's a trail and you shoot around. But the reason I was looking at it, I was trying to see if there's the backside of it. I've got a feeling the backside climb, so not the the first one you have is quite steep, but around the backside which is going up next to, I don't know the alternative route up to Springbrook that is a real leg.
Finder. Yeah, Good. OK, like if you that one will make you find out whether. Your legs are going, Yeah, good or not, Yeah. So look, the, the takeaway here, I'm, you know, as I said, I'm four months out from this. The mileage is building, the kilometres, the time on feet, it's all building. I'm being very sensible about it. And I've literally, I've come here today from a gym session. So I'm, I'm building like the leg strength is still a focus,
but it's stairs. Stairs is going to be a big addition into the running programme they have. Thought about like do you have aspirational goal around what mileage you might be wanting to look to get up to? Again, picking up from Ben Feriff, Ben one point O in the tips, I asked him, I'm like during as you went into the Mylar, what were you, What was your average weekly kilometres? And he said it's not. He said it wasn't that big. He said he was working around 120 KS.
OK, which again, if you don't run that will be bigger than I've ever. Run that. Will be bigger than I've ever run, but for a race that's 160 KS, it seems unders. I don't know what I expected to be running, but that's just what he ran. He's like I didn't get carried away, but it was 120 KS a week. Was as big as he was running, but he was the stairs.
And it was this train, I mean, and this is just me personally thinking about it. Like, I think you'd get such a wide range because you're going to have elites and, and those who are trying to like, optimise how best they can run 160 and they're going to have some crazy mileage and crazy distances. So, and that's where like you're, you're talking about you've gone to get, you want some information from those who
have conquered it like that. And then you're getting, but this is the key information I believe for you is to come back to someone who the the crew or people who athletes who have gone out there, runners who have gone out there and actually done it around your pace. Yeah. And understand like what's what's I suppose the threshold amount which you go actually this is too little. Yeah, but I also don't need to be professional 2 times a day
runner, right? Because I could go and speak to Lucy Bartholomew, but she's a professional runner. I mean, she's got all day to run exactly, so it's not. There's there's no but like. It doesn't equate 0. There's no, you know, she's I've got a I've got a job, I've got kids, I've got all this sort of stuff. So I'm gonna continue to speak to different people, try and get some of those golden rules, try and find out, learn a bit more
along the way. You. Keep bringing them because that's they'll be interesting. But yeah, that was the, that was my, they're my, they're my, that's my trail talk for this week. The build continues. The body feels good. I'm going to now be incorporating more stairs into my training as per the two Benny's who've given me that piece of advice. But yeah, I feel good.
I'm excited. I'm really the other thing I will say quickly to move before I move on from the trail stuff could not feel more comfortable out in the border trail because that's why I'm doing a lot of my work at the moment. But this week just gone. I was spending more time in the S lab Genesis. No, what's the the flatter, more racy Fuel ones? Genesis, the Genesis and it's such a fun race shoe. It's such a fun shoe to run in as as opposed to the Ultra Glide hail damage golf ball Dimple.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like that one chalk and cheese preserving my feet. But I just feel, yeah, it's the running in those two. Juices. So like as you move through these four months, will you? You're gonna obviously need more shoes. Yeah, I'm going to explore some different shoes. Yep, I'm going to explore some different shoes. I've got some I'm I'm looking into trying a couple of different other brands just to find out what I really like running in. I'm looking at some of the Nike,
the Terex as well. But yeah, I'm I'm enjoying learning more about the trail thing quickly. Has anyone tried, you know, besides myself, has anyone else skewed you on brand Like talking about shoes on trails going oh they try this, this is 1. Not really, no. Interestingly though, I'll just say I I where I met Ben the other weekend had in the trails was as part of people might be aware of Keegan Hipgrave and what he's all doing in the
running space. He had a little trail event partnered with LSKD and a coffee mob Sun Devil from down the Tweed. It was interesting because there are a lot of what probably people that fall under the run boom have got caught up in the run hysteria over the last year or so. And I was asking, I was just curious, playing curious. I kept very low profile out there playing curious. I was asking people, have you
been trail running much before? A lot of first time trail runners out there, a lot of first time trail runners who had never been out on the trails before for for whatever reason, blokes, women who just. And I was like, OK, so it's taking something like this to bring you out to a trail and get amongst it. And sadly, I have an injury report for the Gold Coast Titans. Their cheerleaders went down. Oh OK.
She was out there for the first time on a trail less than AK in bang and bad ankle like immediate I. Thought cheerleaders would have some. Strong angles at all. She went down and stuff. She went down. So no injury report for the Gold Coast Titans. Sit down and cheerleader for round one, I think. I hope she gets better soon. It's the poor thing. She was upset. But anyway, there's my trail talk. That's your trail talk. There's my trail update.
Do you want to talk a bit about oh, Olympics? I got an Olympic question for you. You seen what the US Olympians are getting now I did. I did for those that. We, because I mean we talked about it for the Australian Olympians, they put on a retirement. Fund Yes. What was a reward? Do you remember what your paycheck would have been if you'd won gold at either of the? Olympics, I think 30. But 30,000 on the condition that you went to the next Olympic Games as well.
No, not the same for triathlete, because that's what it was for swimmers. Do you know that for swimmers, Liesel Jones, who I do in my radio show with has told me this, that that gold medal bonus was conditional on you committing to the following Olympic Games. I. Wonder if that was a private gold medal bonus out of the right, the Gene and Reinhart farm. I don't know. I don't know, but I don't think so.
I mean, I think there was there was an athlete that yeah, the Australian athlete, Australian Olympic Commission. Yep. Or maybe the Australian Sports Commission, one of the two. You have a metal fund. OK. And that metal fund is a pool. Yep. And I think these days are, I don't know exactly. So I don't want to say, I don't want to say what isn't the correct information.
But yeah, like effectively if gold, silver or bronze, you got a certainty or the thing was if you were a, you know, a swimmer and you got 6 gold medals, you got six times the the amount first. You know, some sports only have one opportunity as well. So see as always. Interesting if the swimmers got that. I think the swimmers it was. It was not a per medal bonus. Ask Lisel. Yeah, I'll follow. That for us, because I'm I'm not 100% sure. Do you know why? Because your memory's terrible
and you didn't win a medal. I didn't win a medal, but the USI wouldn't. I'd remember that you'd Remember Remember that the. US Olympians Starting next month at the Winter Olympics, US Olympic and Paralympic athletes will receive $200,000. Yes, but paid 20 years after the athletes first Olympic appearance or at age 45.
So this comes about because billionaire Ross Stevens, Yep, donated $100 million to create the Stevens Financial Security Award, the largest gift in the history of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee. So it's amazing. So they're saying yeah. We breakdown how it works. Yeah, well, I mean 100 thousands paid out over 4 years. So that's what, 25 grand a year over 4 years when you turn 45 effectively Or 20 years after your your first Olympic if you're a young younger Olympian?
At every games, they compete in two. Yes, so if you went to three Olympics, you're gonna cope $600,000 if and another 100,000 is guaranteed to their family after death. So there's also like a wow bursary fund there for that. This is really intro it's I'd love to you as an Olympian. What are your thoughts on this? What do you think of this as a whole it? I mean, personally, I'd go this is amazing.
Like in this area, like we've talked about before, it probably comes back down to the sport, like different sports have different professions and and monetary pay when it comes to the Olympics. But I'm of the notion and this that everyone should be treated. If you do it for one, you got to do it for all. That's irrelevant. Which? Which is this? What? Which is this case, Yeah. So I don't care if you're, you know, who's about one of the current US basketballers that will be on the team.
Oh. Yeah, good point. Well, I don't know, Kevin Durant probably not getting there, but he's probably a bit old now. But Anthony Edwards, say Edwards, Yeah, there's like. I'm not a believer that you can just say to him, well, you might. You're not. I'm not giving it to you because you're loaded. You know the fencer well, you know, you're a pure amateur. So that. We have had this conversation before, yeah.
So in this case, I believe everyone one in all, one in all in, there is a notion of like you could separate things like, and I'm just going out on a tangent now, you could separate things like this from like pure amateur sports to pure professional sports. But then I'd argue there's still such a variance in like what you know, Triathlon's probably a good example. Like it's a professional sport, but you majority are probably earning money to get by and not retire. Yeah, it's, yeah.
I mean, do the look you could means test it as this is essentially what you're talking about there, but what they've just. Done. But I'm not in for the means testing around because then that brings into like what you do after sport and a whole range of things. But the reality is what's great here is there are so many Olympic sports that do not get paid. Yes, like there was I was reading in the paper this morning.
It was a German bobsled athlete Female bobsled athlete has funded her way to the Olympics through only. Fans, I saw this story. Yeah, yeah. Because it. She's got a dream. Well, but to run a bobsled campaign is about 50,000, I think it was EUR, it was in Germany, yeah. So €50,000 a year to run the campaign and it's privately funded. So how do you do it?
But but what I'll regardless of, you know, sport V sport and all the rest of that, and yes, there are, there will be multi, multi multi millionaires going to compete at this Winter Olympics and at the summer, next Summer Games in America. They will go multi, multi millionaires will be there to compete because they have earned that much in their sport. But to go back to this bloke has put this much money in and he said if you make it as an Olympian, you get this.
And I, you know, talking about those athletes that participate in the lesser paid sports, Yep. But they've also made a choice to do that. And they've made a choice that it's not like no one, no one took up fencing thinking, oh, I thought I was going to make $50 million as a professional fence. They knew, they knew what the paycheck was, but they still chose to pursue it. And what I like about this is it's going nut you become an Olympian, you get this.
And, and look, I'm not saying I think Australia should find a way to do it. But they have. But they have to some extent. But they do mean, but they mean. Test it. Yeah, so different, different style of programme. I mean, reports are that Ray Gun wants to go and break dance for America the next Olympic Games because he's like. Reset Radio reports.
Rumours, rumours, rumours are. But look, hey, if Ross, we just need to find another Ross Stevens for Australia and we need to find an Australian Ross Stevens. We've got some great private donation, like, you know, there's some good private donations in Australian sport. I don't need to go into them, but they're there. This one's just been specifically aimed at, not a sport it's been aimed at. The Olympic programme, all Olympians. I like it quickly. My running. Yes, please.
I well, we know it's going well because you're chirping everybody your sessions, according to your brother. Yep. This week, So I had to. I went over to Perth this week. I've been in Perth for three days. Mornings Crisp, nice 1516. Try to yeah my low humidity. Like it. It takes a few mornings in that to realise what a slog running in Queensland is in summer and the further north you go, the
worse it gets. But I had a couple of runs and it was just, it was just the best thing to get into some cool conditions. It wasn't cold, no, but it was just nice running easy, you know, get through an hour. I was getting back to the hotel like my wasn't just saturated as if I come out of the water. So many positives out of it. And then flat. Don't worry about the flat, just just just a quick reminder of what's to come when autumn starts rolling around. OK, it was very, very nice.
I did also because I was away. It was the first time I've been away since I've been really structured in my gym programme. OK. So I had a bit of a like, I mean the city. Yep. How do you I haven't done gym in so long outside of going down to the local gym. Gym at your hotel?
So there was OK now, but what would you like 'cause I'm doing some very specific exercises that need like, and I'm not worried if I missed one or two, but I generally wanted, you know, I wanted at least a squat rack that had proper weights ordered and things like that too typical. For a hotel gym. Well, that's what I was gonna
ask you the question. Do you think and anyone who else is in their hotels this is a new thing but would you consider to walk into a hotel and get some free like a squat rack with free weights number? One, I'd be surprised by that. Yeah, I I would, I would consider that to be over delivering from a hotel gym. Yeah, I I was of the same opinion. So I'd already started to look at, you know, can I get to a 24 hour gym close to the hotel? Took a trip underneath to have a look at the gym.
Wow, really? Not a squat rack, but 20 KG bar with plates. So I was able to manage, you know, calf raise machine like I would use in in the gym I'd go to. However, there was some, I don't even know what you'd call them, but there were some machines that still allowed you to do a style of calf raise. Yeah. It was like a sitting swat machine that also had a bit of a like a, an outcut in it that allowed you to do that. Pretty much. I got through your programme, my programme.
Good enough, I'll say. So my Bulgarian squats, I couldn't, I couldn't lift the weight onto my back so I just used dumbbells. But like I got through it well enough and I'm like OK, done and tick box. But that was the main thing I was worried about travelling at the moment. It's like I'm gonna miss. Bloody gym. Just pivoting on that. I can't remember if we've talked about this on the podcast before, the concept of airport gyms. Yeah. What do you think?
Well, so. And quick shout out to a friend of the pod, Rihanna Crane, who she posted something about this the other week. I've heard this thrown around before. She got, I think she got a big old delay at an airport. Yeah, right. And she said there should be more gyms, hairdressers, better shops, great food at airports. Would you use a gym at an airport if you got if you got hit with a delay? At the moment, Yep, Yeah. Right.
Yep, Yep, Yep. Especially if I, yeah, especially if I'd finished up my day a bit earlier than I thought I had to. And you know, I'm not on a flexi flight and have to hang it out. Yeah, for sure. There's an opportunity for the Gold Coast Airport here. I think it'd be very, very busy though. Go. Go what? Don't do. It, but I'd never use the Gold Coast 1. Well, no, you wouldn't, because you'd be coming home. But Gold Coast is such a, a, it's a growing airport, all right.
It's an you know, it's getting busier and busier, but step forward going on. Singapore's got the pool and I'm I'm sure on the gym. I'm sure Singapore will have a gym in their airport. They've got everything else, some of those. There's not one in an Australian gym, sorry. An Australian airport though, that I can think of. Yeah, great. It's a it's a good idea. I reckon it'd be pretty dirty airport. Doesn't it have? To be airports in general, it's just dirty.
Places. I've just come out of Japan over the break and it doesn't. All these places that we accept as being dirty here in Australia, they don't have to be. They don't have to be, but the reality is that. We as a community just lift our overall standard and I'm going to use public toilets as an example here and we don't piss on the scenes, we don't. We flush and we do all these things. Places don't have to be dirty people. Airport gyms, for example. Airport gyms, it's a it's a
reasonable. Idea, but your body's feeling good. Touch with yeah, yeah, tomorrow get out going into the forest tomorrow might slowly increase a little bit of the pressure off some of the hills and go out on that 17 K loop. Yeah, get it done. Taken away, mate, taken away. What time are you going out there? Might come for a run with you. Well, let me rephrase that. We might run the same track. I am assuming. What are you knocking out that
70K loop in right now roughly? I've been over an hour and a half the first few weeks, but I've just been kind of rolling around there. So I think at the fastest we get around there in about 70 minutes. So I'm about 2025 minutes off. I was, you know, talking about, we were joking at the beginning around team 100 and times and racing and everything else. That tempo I did do back in Perth and I was talking about that 8K back. I, I actually, I wore a heart rate monitor and I kept my heart
rate under 150, right? And I think I'd have to have a look back. I think the average was around just under, I think it was like 348 or something. I'm not happy with that. Of course you're not, no. Now you I'm not running as quick And so like this is where it'll get interesting for me is that I'm still benchmarking against old, old boardings. And at the moment, I kind of go, I know the heart rate's right. So just run and that will
improve next week like 100%. I know that just improves week to week, but knowing we've got what we say, four or five weeks only. Yeah, till till till 100, March 20. I've forgotten that I've lost the. Yeah. So the notion instead of instead of slowly, you know. 22nd of March. Yeah, instead of slowly just tapping up the threshold. You want to make I? Kind of, I kind of want to get the sledgehammer and go like that, but. And that's where injuries happen. Injuries happen exactly so.
Little taps, not big jumps. I've. Gone to the heart rate monitor at the moment to make sure things are controlled and that's where we'll stay all. Right, big shout out to everybody who's already subscribed. If you're not subscribed helps the podcast, helps the platform, helps us do cool stuff. And again, the T100, you've still got time to get involved with this 22nd of March, the 10K run. It is going to be an an absolute festival on the Gold Coast. You're finishing the heart of Serpas.
You can roll up Kavalav. You can race Liam. You can race me, Courtney says I'm not allowed to balloon. I have something I'll find. I'll. I'll. We'll find ways to have fun even if old band courtneys up the front. All right. Thanks for stopping by. We'll see you next week. See you next week.