Back from Stockholm and this is the full breakdown. The race, the week, the controversy, and the one thing I couldn't stop thinking about after.

Solo race went one second slower than Brisbane. On paper that's backwards. In practice it was probably my best Hyrox to date — best burpee time in 18 months, first unbroken wall balls in a while, and I came off the course feeling like an actual athlete rather than someone who just survived. I'm calling that a win.

What's really sitting with me though is watching how many people crossed the finish line at a World Championship and immediately started apologising to themselves. I've been that person. It sucks. And I wanted to talk about it properly.

Also this week: surviving a week in Stockholm as a vegan, the LSKD city tour, how I fluked my way into a Puma seeding suite and walked out with seven pairs of shoes, the Elite 15 race drama (Hunter's penalties, the Cole DQ, Dylan Scott's insane win), the new Hyrox rules and why I'm a bit worried about the direction the sport is heading, and three races in Sydney coming up.

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• Stockholm travel and jet lag management

• Surviving a week in Europe as a vegan

• LSKD content day and city tour

• The Puma seeding suite

• Walk of Nations and athlete check-in

• Elite 15 races: women's and men's (Hunter, Cole DQ, Dylan Scott)

• Solo race breakdown: burpee breakthrough, unbroken wall balls, heat and humidity

• Will Martin's burpee tip that changed everything

• Open doubles with Ben

• Sunday island day and relay

• Why watching people beat themselves up after their race was hard to see

• How to define a good race beyond just the time

• Self-coaching update post-Stockholm

• New Hyrox rules breakdown and honest take

• Concerns about Hyrox's direction as a sport

• Three races in Sydney: solo pro, open doubles, mixed doubles with Amy

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Episode 3, and by the time this drops I'm somewhere over the ocean flying home from Stockholm. I recorded this one early so I could keep the fortnightly thing actually happening. So this is me before the race, not after.

Here's where I'm at with my running. Six months ago I couldn't string two weeks together without my hip falling apart. Right now I'm five weeks deep over 50km and feeling strong.

The fix wasn't more training. It was finally addressing the thing that was holding me back instead of working around it. I get into exactly what changed.

The other big one this episode: I reckon I wasted the better part of 7 years of strength training. Not because I wasn't working hard, but because I was lifting in no man's land and never resting properly between sets.

I talk through what I'd do differently, and why I now get more out of one proper strength session a week than I used to get out of a pile of half-arsed ones.

Plus how I'm thinking about Stockholm. No PB chasing, just a race that feels good. And why mileage matters less than people give it credit for.

Then a big batch of your questions: progressing from Open to World Champs, unbroken wall balls, the biggest mistake I see endurance athletes making, and what proper strength training actually looks like for Hyrox.

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What's covered:

• Why my running broke down, and the one thing that actually fixed it

• Five weeks over 50km and feeling strong for the first time in ages

• Training now vs 12 months ago, and why changing coaches didn't fix the real problem

• Does mileage actually matter? (the poll answer)

• Why I wasted 7 years of strength training

• Stockholm: how I'm feeling, no PB expectations, the long game

• The mystery explosion, changing my own oil, and building a proper home gym

• Myprotein, and the misconception around fuelling

• Listener Qs: Open to World Champs, wall balls, strength vs running, the biggest mistake endurance athletes make

• What's next: Stockholm recap, then Sydney

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Back for episode 2.

This week I'm calling out the thing most people get completely wrong with recovery — skipping the basics and jumping straight to the fun stuff. Saunas, ice baths, compression boots. None of it means anything if your sleep and nutrition are a mess.

I break down my actual routine, what's non-negotiable versus nice-to-have, and what I've changed recently that's made the biggest difference.

Then I get into heart rate monitor training — why I cap almost every session by heart rate now, which monitor is actually worth using, and why your wrist sensor is probably lying to you.

Also: a shift in how I think about coaching, a rant about social media call-out culture, the snap your fingers responses, and listener questions on training and mental health, motivation, and knowing when to push through versus back off.

Leaving for Stockholm World Champs in less than two weeks. No script. No edits. Just a real life Run Down.

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