Peak Endurance

Welcome to episode 188!! We're closing in on 200!! Today I interviewed Brooke Emma Rose. Brooke is one of the athletes I coach, and she has big plans! Hear all about them on this episode. Brooke's Instagram is here: https://instagram.com/brookemma.rose?igshid=YWJhMjlhZTc=.  Brooke’s TikTok is here: https://www.tiktok.com/@unapologeticallybrooke_?_t=8ZG28475fEngage your audience RB&_r=1 To register...

Hi and welcome to the Peak Endurance podcast. My name is Isobel Ross and I am the coach at Peak Endurance Coaching. Episode 187 is an interview with Meghan canfield.  We last spoke in episode 58, where we spoke about how she has been so successful in ultra running for so long, well into her 50s. And then she messaged me recently because I posted about wanting peoples lessons they learnt from 2022....

In this episode, listeners share what they learnt this year in running and in life!

Happy New Year and welcome to the first episode of 2023, season 3, episode 185. In this episode I talk about the 10 things runners should do, a follow on from a pod I did last year on the 10 things runners shouldn't do. I hope you get a lot out of this and if you do, could you please rate and review here: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/peak-endurance/id1479052215 Health and High Performance...

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Welcome to the Peak Endurance podcast! Thank you for joining me today! Episode 183 is all about my coast to kosci adventure! Coast to kosci is a tough race in anyone’s language. And I always knew it would be, but I don’t think you really fully appreciate how tough it is until you do it. I know I certainly didn’t. In this podcast, Ron and I have a chat before the race, then a group chat with the wh...

Welcome to the Peak Endurance podcast! Thank you for joining me today! Episode 182 is an interview with Nigel Hill. I last interviewed Nigel in 2021 when he won DU. Nigel is such a humble, unassuming guy who is also a phenomenal runner. Ron joins me to chat with Nigel about his win at the GSER 100 mile race recently, training leading up to the event, his strategy going into the race and how that p...

Welcome to the Peak Endurance podcast! Thank you for joining me today! Episode 181 is an interview with Stephen Redfern. I have interviewed Stephen a few times, documenting his massive runs. This interview looks at his most massive run to date! Stephen recently returned to Australia after participating in the Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3100-mile race. In 1997, the spiritual teacher, athlete, a...

Welcome to the Peak Endurance podcast! Episode 180 is an episode where Ron and I chat with one of Scott Beams. Ron and I met Scott when I asked for pacers for my 7 Peaks FKT. Scott stepped up to the plate and was brilliant in his pacing duties. He then helped in my fundraising run for Red Nose Day when I ran from Bourke St Mt Buller to Bourke St in the city. He has also helped many other people ac...

Welcome to the Peak Endurance podcast! Episode 179 is an episode where Ron and I chat with one of my good friends that I met whilst I lived in Canada. We recently caught up with her and ran with her a couple of times on our trip earlier this year. Lourdes is always doing an amazing race in some far-flung location and recently she ran Tor Des Geants. This is a race I REALLY want to do so I thought...

Welcome to the Peak Endurance podcast! Episode 178 is an episode that is broken up into four parts. That is because Ron and I have been at The Bright Alpine Climb – 4 Peaks is a 4 day walking and running event based in the Bright area in Victoria. Each day participants tackle a new peak with distances varying from 10.6km to 15km. All events are hosted on gazetted trails and the trails are marked f...

Are you sick and tired of being injured or running in pain? Ensure you are ready for racing in 2022 and come in and see the team at Health & High Performance .Love running again by heading to www.healthhp.com.au/run or find them on Instagram Healthhighperformance. The link is here to give this pod a review. I have my next poles skills clinic on Sunday 6thNovember, 2-3.30pm. This course is invaluab...

Welcome to the Peak Endurance podcast! Episode 177 is an interview with Paul Watkins, also known as The Rogue Scholar. Paul describes himself as a mountain climber, ultra runner, adventurer, speaker, business owner, pharmacist, husband, father, nerd and son. That’s a lot of hats! Paul and I discuss what that all means, and also how he won the 2019 Arctic Ultra 614km and his new book Lost and Found...

Welcome to the Peak Endurance podcast! Episode 176 is an interview with Karin Traeger. Karin is the chief executive of the non-profit Yarra Riverkeeper Association set out to be the first known person to run the whole length of the river, from its source to the sea. Karin believes “Water is life, and the Birrarung/Yarra River is Melbourne's living entity connecting us to country”. Ron and I chat w...

Hi and welcome back to the podcast. My name is Isobel Ross and I am the coach at Peak Endurance Coaching. Episode 175 is my fifth interview with the brilliant author Matt Fitzgerald. I have previously interviewed him about his books 80/20 which discusses the concept of running easy for 80% of your training and hard for 20%, How Bad Do You Want It? Which delved into the topic of mindset and mental...

Welcome to the Peak Endurance podcast! Episode 174 is another interview with Lincoln Quilliam, founder and race director for the Kunanyi Mountain run. When I interviewed Lincoln, he was overseas in Scotland as part his work for the Churchill Fellowship. Churchill Fellowships offer a diverse range of people from all walks of life an opportunity to travel overseas for four to eight weeks to explore...

Welcome to the Peak Endurance podcast! Episode 173 is another interview with Pam Muston. I have had Pam on the podcast before, way back in early 2020. She is a great friend of mine, and an amazing athlete. Pam has been running since the early 80s and in this chat, we discuss how she has managed to run all this time without every getting injured! Amazing huh!! At the end of the interview, she share...

Ron and I had a brilliant time running the Sri Chinmoy 100k in Canberra. It was an awesome loop of the city. We loved it (well, most of the time!!) This episode starts with us before the race, then following it with a post-race discussion. Enjoy!! Don’t forget to get onto the peakchocolate website to get 15% off at checkout with the code ISOBELROSS at checkout. It is sincerely the best chocolate a...

today for the podcast I thought I would talk about 10 guiding principles of training. Once you’ve decided what race you are training for, there are 10 fundamental principles of training that you’ll want to keep in mind. Don’t forget to get onto the peakchocolate website to get 15% off at checkout with the code ISOBELROSS at checkout. It is sincerely the best chocolate around, and I am incredibly f...

Ron and I talk about the Wonderland 65k that we participated in over the weekend. A tough course, but absolutely magnificent too! Some of our topics are: embracing the suck, and those runs that don't go as planned, strengthening our mental toughness muscle, and does being mentally tough mean we never have bad moments? Find Health and High Performance here Peak Chocolate here and don't forget to us...

Mindfulness is the quality of being present and fully engaged with whatever we’re doing at the moment — free from distraction or judgment, and aware of our thoughts and feelings without getting caught up in them. It means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, through a gentle, nurturing lens. Join my mindfulness for runn...

Welcome to the podcast! Episode 166 is an interview with Erchana Murray.  Erchana is running a marathon every day, making my way from the tip of mainland Australia (Cape York) to the toe (Melbourne) that’s 155 consecutive marathons for a total of 6,200kms to spread a very important message - Extinction is a CHOICE. That's right, 150 consecutive marathons to be the voice for our native animals. Erc...

The benefits of poles are many and varied!! Here are a few: Using poles in long runs or races helps to delay fatigue by taking some of the load from your feet to your arms. Poles are so useful on the flat to get into a rhythm with your running. They help you to navigate downhills like four legs; more stability. Listen to Ron and I discuss how learning how to use poles have helped Ron in the mounta...

Hello and welcome back to the podcast! I hope you have been enjoying the interviews I have been doing, but I thought it was time to slot in one of my pods on a training topic. Today’s topic is Recovery! As the saying goes, Work + rest = success! Stephen Smith: 04126230767 or stephen.smith77@bigpond.com  Luke Nelson: https://www.healthhp.com.au/ Peak Chocolate: https://www.peakchocolate.com.au/ 15%...

Welcome to the podcast! Episode 165 is a chat with Sam Suke.  Sam is a physio at Exercise Thought physiotherapy. We riff about how our mental perspective influences our physical self. I am a big believer in how our thoughts influence our actions…and also our rate of healing from injuries. A negative mindset negatively influences all aspects of our life. I know it’s easier said than done, but we re...