GARY WILMOT

“NOT ALL ADVENTURES ARE PLANNED, IN FACT THE BEST OFTEN AREN’T”~ me ~ well first of all, if you’re looking for more regular (sometimes daily, sometimes every few weeks or so) updates, then the social media updates page is where you want to be. having served its purpose as my journal in the first few years, […]

“I get up when I want except on wednesdays when I get rudely awakened by the dustmen”~ blur, parklife ~ summary / notes another parkrun done with the boy – now I know he doesn’t share my love of parkrun to the same degree, but he is actually a bigger fan of it than his […]

“Oh will we ever be set free?”~ iron maiden, run to the hills ~ summary / notes so, running, and getting back to it… the good news is that I haven’t lost my endurance. I know this, every once in a while I go and do something stupid, like 12.5km on a tough trail, or […]

“get yourself an egg and beat it”~ Weird Al Yankovich ~ summary / notes today was a non-training day, but I thought I’d take the chance to talk about food a little more. as mentioned elsewhere, I’ve been interested in low-carb eating since reading about “primal” eating in relation to distance running / endurance sport. […]

“I GET KNOCKED DOWN BUT I GET UP AGAIN”~ chumbawamba ~ summary / notes so to kick things off, there’s a couple of adjustments with eating and training. firstly, I’m getting back into making an effort to cook real food, and following a low carb regime. secondly I’ve taken the training right back to basics, […]

it seems a lifetime ago that I was setting out on a voyage of transformation. of course, when I wrote my first post, it didn’t seem that big a deal; it was “just” me setting out to run a marathon. eventually. so much has happened since then, I’ve lost 30kg, run many marathons and ultras, […]

yes I know there’s still just under two weeks left in 2017, but I’m feeling in a bit of a reflective mood. 2017 was an interesting year, I started out with 75km (out of 100km) for the Australia Day Ultra, I got a bit of pace back doing a triathlon novice course with Perth Tri […]

sometimes, it seems, life has a way of gently pointing us in the right direction and teaching us a lesson… that’s how I am choosing to interpret my recent flu/cold, and subsequent lack of training… why do I say that? well, mostly because of the doubts I have about being able to successfully complete the […]

With the triathlon Novice Course now completed, the focus has shifted to the next goal; Gold Coast marathon. I decided a while back that I wanted to give myself the best possible chance of a good run there, and so I spoke to Dave Alley about his online coaching. Now you may remember that Dave […]

I’d like to say it was planned all along however, just like so many adventures and experiences, it just sort of came together its own way. What am I talking about? My active easter long weekend of course… it started with a swim “Come to Coogee Beach for an open water swim” they said, and […]