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15 degrees in the Northern Rivers, must be time to bust out the merino 😉Let’s just say it’s a great season in my life to...
28/04/2026

15 degrees in the Northern Rivers, must be time to bust out the merino 😉

Let’s just say it’s a great season in my life to be marathon training. Not just for the running, but for everything around the running: eat better, sleep more, do prehab. You know, like the healthy relationship to self stuff that you should be able to do on your own but somehow you need a giant deadline, a fear of failure and a giant medal to lock it the f**k in.

Weird.

At the moment it does seem like everyone wants something more than what I have. But running gives me more than it asks of me.,

Kids be like: you look super cute in your jumper! And it means more when they know it took 60 hours to make, I have maxi...
24/04/2026

Kids be like: you look super cute in your jumper!

And it means more when they know it took 60 hours to make, I have maximum maybe 3 months out of the year to wear it and this week after 20 years I decided not to be married anymore. So if a teenager compliments you, you’ve got to take the win.

Praise the running gods, we have now reached a time which is not feeling Autumny (yet) but is feeling significantly less...
11/03/2026

Praise the running gods, we have now reached a time which is not feeling Autumny (yet) but is feeling significantly less death by seven realms of summer hell that I can run on the back roads from home in the afternoon without having to travel somewhere I can access water every 1000m.

Just as well, because I’m going to need the hill training for Sydney.

The last few weeks I’ve been on placement for exercise physiology. Which is interesting because I remember a lifetime ago having a job at a law firm in quality control after having quit my degree and thinking wow what a great decision, law isn’t for me at all. But this time around at placement feeling like it’s just a very fun time and getting to be part of something that people feel proud of themselves for doing is pretty incredible.

So I’m glad that at multiple times when things got tough, or my carer needs at home were really high I didn’t quit. Life of a part time student = still years to go, but it’s nice to have affirmation along the way

Unfortunately for me I had to work approximately 150 hours in the last fortnight. Gross, but it’s over. And by some magi...
08/03/2026

Unfortunately for me I had to work approximately 150 hours in the last fortnight. Gross, but it’s over. And by some magic I still managed to run around 85km for the week. Which means about 7 weeks of relatively high volume running for me. So I’ve had a lot of thinking time. My depressed brain doesn’t do podcasts it just does music, so there’s a lot of time for my thoughts to just wander off some place.

I have been thinking a lot about why I am still running 15 years after I started. I’ve burnt through plenty of things that don’t stick but running has been a singularity in my life.

And what I’ve come to with it lately is that it’s one of the few safe spaces. There are plenty of spaces I have to shrink for, or pretzel my way into or muscle through or mask past. But with running I can be both too much and never enough and remain undiminished.

Over time, you get good at enduring spaces that don’t do that. You get good at tolerating the inauthenticity and the discomfort and all the parts you hide just to keep everything moving forward.

But I don’t have to parse running through a pattern filter to see if I got it right or I f**ked it up.

It’s a space I can be whole in. Which is a pretty special place. 💜💚

To be honest, it was genuinely 50/50 as to whether I chose the sugar or the sweat tonight.It would have been so easy to ...
24/02/2026

To be honest, it was genuinely 50/50 as to whether I chose the sugar or the sweat tonight.

It would have been so easy to wash my face, jump in bed and eat my feelings.

And some days that’s exactly what I would do, but today I chose the harder thing even though I hate starting so late, I don’t love the treadmill, I wanted to lift not run today, and this week has been such a long year.

But if I’ve learned nothing else over the last decade or so, I’ve learned that it’s the ones that you have to fight hard just to start that help you remember who you are.

I’m not ruling out a KitKat NGL, but I’ll enjoy it more because I did the hard thing first and maybe the hard thing will feel less hard tomorrow.

Big emotions make me forget what I can do sometimes. Pushing past the doubt and don’t wanna to move reminds me that I can do anything.

x Kate t

It’s the Winter Olympics so I get to enjoy my most favourite sport: Biathlon. Sorry running, you are a close second.
14/02/2026

It’s the Winter Olympics so I get to enjoy my most favourite sport: Biathlon. Sorry running, you are a close second.

Turns out if you string together 4 weeks in between 65-85km, you get to earn the capacity to do the workout where you fi...
14/02/2026

Turns out if you string together 4 weeks in between 65-85km, you get to earn the capacity to do the workout where you finish a long run by running uphill for 20 minutes.

Instead of dreading this session, being able to do it was a reward for a month of work.

Suspect I’m not the only one whose life rhythms tend to be dictated by school terms?Any fellow teachers also in firm den...
26/01/2026

Suspect I’m not the only one whose life rhythms tend to be dictated by school terms?

Any fellow teachers also in firm denial that the Summer break is done?

I love my school and my students and my subject, I genuinely do, but o also love late starts and not knowing what day it is and not having to think about a week of lunches and dinners all in one go.

Was so tempted to keep working on my puzzle instead of lifting things today. But start as you mean to go on right? I have a round number birthday coming up this year and some hefty goals to go with it - pun intended 🤪

A very smart woman we know has always been quick to remind us that progress isn’t linear - and here’s the evidence. But it’s always worth it, and those incremental gains are what will keep me going when it next feels too much, too hard, too tired.

For everyone heading back to school this week - adults and young people alike - I hope your academic year is filled with evidence of growth and learning, even when it means a few steps backwards first.

What steps towards growth are you taking today? ❤️

Blast from the past anyone?Way back in 2012 when we started moving, one of the first things I learned is that you’re far...
22/01/2026

Blast from the past anyone?

Way back in 2012 when we started moving, one of the first things I learned is that you’re far more likely to do the thing if you get up and put on the gear right away. Removes one layer of procrastination I guess.

So this morning I got up and put on old fave (that I have worn regularly for about a decade now I’d guess?). I figured it would take an hour or so to get the house ready for Miss 9’s first ever birthday party with friends tomorrow (school holiday babies get ripped a bit don’t they?).

I’m about two and a half hours in and ngl I reckon I’ve covered leg day, upper body and cardio already. Still a fair bit to go as well.

At least I’m appropriately dressed for the effort?!

What incidental high effort moving are you doing today? And can someone please send me an iced coffee?

Or bear with me it was in fact just an easy run in 86% humidity
18/01/2026

Or bear with me it was in fact just an easy run in 86% humidity

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