Inside Athletics

Fri05182012

Last update11:29:43 PM

The final countdown

During the past two weeks I had the opportunity to talk to a number of groups of people including Managers and CEO’s of Clubs in QLD, a number of talented athletes at the Sports Darling Downs Sports Star of the Year awards and the Glennie girls at their athletics camp. These were all such great experiences, I love being able to talk to members of the community and share my story.


I really feel like I have such a great support system up here in Toowoomba not only through Glennie but throughout the whole community. Having so many people barracking for me really makes me want to put everything into succeeding, not that I didn’t before but the knowledge that there are such a great number of people who believe in me and my ability really motivational.

I don’t know where the past two weeks have gone, they seem to have just disappeared. I’m currently sitting in a hotel room in Coolangatta, I left Toowoomba on Saturday to spend a couple of days on the coast catching up with my Osteopath/Strength and conditioning coach Alison Daniel as well as another Osteopath I have been working with Tim Crowe.

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