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Zoey | Coach 🏃‍♀️ and Podcast 🎙
I help people start running and love it for life. linktr.ee/opmove

13/07/2026

Back at University and biomechanics is still my favourite. Not just because of the subject but because our tutor is so amazing. This is my third subject with him and I’m sad it will be the last one.

12/07/2026

How do you know you’re autistic/adhd?

Me: well I created two autistic/adhd children and I was very convinced they were ‘normal’ because of my experiences and then I created a running and lifting community for neurodivergent people.

So yeah, I know.

07/07/2026

Ambulatory wheelchair users exist. This weekend while we were on the Gold Coast for marathon weekend we were using the tram. Riley was pushing Arlo in the wheelchair. Some guy rode past and yelled ‘use your legs it fixes everything’. And Riley yells after him ‘f**k you too’. And then Arlo laughed as hard as I’ve seen him laugh in a long time ‘sometimes I forget how much you love me.’ And then Riley used some more insulting swears she wished he could have heard. You don’t know what people’s load is, so don’t tell them how to carry it.

05/07/2026

I don’t know how many people have conversations between themselves and their brain as though they are two distinct entities with their own personalities but I do. Today it went a little like this.

Me: So I know we talked about 5-ish hours but 5 hours is just an arbitrary number it doesn’t mean anything. The achievement is the same if it’s 4:59 or 5:15.

My brain: well . . .

Me: it’s especially doesn’t mean anything because we’ve run a 1:36 half and a 3:40 marathon like something like sub 5 on today is not significant it’s just about the effort.

My brain: Well unfortunately we do care about sub 5. I don’t make the rules but we both fu***ng care.

Me: F**k this is going to be hard.

My brain: That’s your department.

Me: But you will have to come to the party so I don’t quit

My brain: No guarantees that I won’t use every trick in the book to get you to walk the last 10km

Me: Fine. F**k I guess we are doing this then.

4:58:36

But big shoutout to a Zoey who was running behind me. All the cheers for her were very motivational even if they weren’t technically for me.

04/07/2026

Undertrained, carrying some extra weight from comfort eating I don’t regret, breaking several marathon rules like new shoes and new shorts, about 20,000 steps today taking the teenagers out and about.

Very excited to run tomorrow knowing that I can run a very long way and it will probably be one of the easier things I do this year. The marathon doesn’t scare me. That’s the fun part when you get to find out who you are and who you want to be.

28/06/2026

My kid: I don’t understand doing something big before you have to do something really big.

Yeah I hear you 🤣

But today was a great example of how easy it is to underestimate long term fitness when your training has been up and down.

The goal was do 3.5 hours, eat every 15 minutes to maximise recovery and feel good about the marathon next weekend.

And I did that 💜

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.,

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.

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

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. 💜💚

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