Heather Hawkins. Adventurous Spirit.
Trail Tales with Tara and Bryce
Heather Hawkins is a woman of two lives - from an everyday mother battling Ovarian Cancer with an unknown future to conquering the world of extreme marathons and adventures. Heather chats with Bryce and Tara about her extraordinary life and the minset and courage that has enabled her to achive what most of us consider to be impossible. She is humble, personable and inspiring. It will do you good to listen in, but be warned, her Adventurous Spirit is contagious and you may find yourself signing up for something that rockets you out of your comfort zone!
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Kelly Mckinlay-Walls
Trail Tales with Tara and Bryce
Kelly is an absolute energiser bunny - a pocket rocket of joy, zest for life and one of the best ultra-Marathon runners around. Her achievements include 3rd placed female recently in the Dusk till Dawn 12 hr ultra and Completing the gruelling 100k Blackall trail. She has a slew of 21k and 50k events under her belt and is a gym instructor, fitness and running coach specialist and one of the most delightful humans you could meet. But it wasn’t always this way. In this episode, she shares her journey from bad habits, being overweight and unmotivated to the powerhouse she is...
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Peter Hallahan
Trail Tales with Tara and Bryce
Peter Hallahan did a Geography degree late in life and is currrently working on his PHD on the topic of running and place. Tara and Bryce Chat with Peter at Whites Hill about how running is so much more than the big events and the medals. It's about the land we run on, the people we run with, the health benefits and the way we feel inside our bodies when we move.
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Associate Professor Saul Villeda - Exercise and Brain Rejuvenation
Trail Tales with Tara and Bryce
Tara chats with her colleague and friend Associate Professor Saul Villeda from the University of California San Francisco about his groundbreaking work on exercise and brain rejuvenation.
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Yana McBride UTMB
Trail Tales with Tara and Bryce
Tara and Bryce chat with Yana McBride about her amazing year of ultra running, focusing on the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc (UTMB) series.
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Bryce is back. Walking the Camino de Santiago.
Trail Tales with Tara and Bryce
Tara has a before and after chat with Bryce about his 800k Camino De Santiago adventure in Spain.
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VO2Max with Professor Jeff Coombs
Trail Tales with Tara and Bryce
Today Kristen and Tara get their VO2Max measured by exercise physiologist Professor Jeff Coombs. We chat with Jeff about this metric and what we can do to increase it.
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Runcation time!! UTA course reccy in the Blue Mountains
Trail Tales with Tara and Bryce
In this episode we chat about our runcation to the stunning Blue Mountains, where Kristen, Rowena and I headed down for a cheeky girls weekend away to check out the UTA50 course.
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Multi-day Ultras with Rowena Fraser
Trail Tales with Tara and Bryce
In this episode we delve into the world of multi-day ultra running with Rowena Fraser. Rowena is passionate about this race format and has so far completed 5 of these grueling events! She is an absolute legend who is very generous with her time and advice and inspires others to achieve their running goals.
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Run the World with Travis Ireland
Trail Tales with Tara and Bryce
In this episode we chat to Travis Ireland, founder of Run the World. Run the World is an incredible initiative that has the goal of uniting runners and walker from all walks of life, creating a global community that embraces diversity and inclusivity. To read more about Run the World: #TrailRunning, #Trails, #Fitness, #Health, #Exercise, #Community
info_outlineTara and Kristen chat about their 50 mile adventure along the stunning Brisbane Valley Rail Trail in the BVRT100s race by AAA Racing. As Kristen says.... "86 kilometers is a really long way..."