You can just wake up one day and decide to go on a long run:

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- “Who’s the God?” - “You are.”

Most people think ultras are about learning to suffer harder. They’re not. They’re about learning when to soften. When to slow down. When to stop fighting the day and start listening to it. Walking isn’t failure. It’s the moment the nervous system settles and the path opens again. Master walking, and distance stops feeling hostile and out of reach.

Spiritual quests in Egypts White Desert

Some experiences don’t shout. They whisper — and change you anyway. Four days moving through an ancient landscape. At your pace. With full support. The desert strips things back until what’s left is usable. People don’t come home talking about kilometres. They come home more grounded. That’s the point. White Desert Ultra. Last 5 spots. Comment 150 for more info

Simple caveman 🦶🏼

Double parked in paradise

Most people think ultramarathons are about suffering more. They’re not. Marathons punish small mistakes. Miss your pace. Miss your fuel. Push your ego. There’s nowhere to hide. Ultras are a different game. You’re allowed to slow down. You’re allowed to walk. You’re allowed to eat, reset, and adapt. That doesn’t make them easy — it makes them honest. Ultras reward athletes who can manage themselves under fatigue. Who can stay calm when things go sideways. Who understand that control beats intensity over long time horizons. Reframe ultramarathons and everything changes. They’re not a test of how hard you can push. They’re a test of how well you can regulate

After 30+ ultras and coaching hundreds of athletes, this is the pattern I see every time… Most people train for ultramarathons backwards. It took me years of mistakes to figure this out. Too many miles. Too little skill and strength work. Chasing fitness while quietly breaking my body. I thought durability came from running more. “Time on feet is everything” got me good. What it actually came from was learning how to handle load. Ultras don’t break people because they’re unfit. They break people when tissue fails, form collapses, or fueling collapses under fatigue. Everything changed when I reversed the order: Build strength and stiffness first. Move better under load. Practice pacing and fueling while tired. Then and only then, add volume. Smarter training beats tougher training. Every single time. Save this if you’re training for an ultra — especially your first

How constant Achilles pain forced me to change everything: For years, my Achilles was the limiting factor. Every attempt to run in minimalist shoes ended the same way — tightness, flare-ups, inflammation, and the quiet frustration of knowing my body couldn’t tolerate what my mind wanted to do. I kept falling back on cushioned footwear just to keep moving. Not because it fixed the problem, but because it masked it enough to get through another run. Over time, that constant pain starts to erode your confidence. You stop trusting your body. In 2025, I finally stopped avoiding the issue and faced it head-on. I committed to rebuilding my Achilles properly — heavy calf loading in the gym, single-leg and double-leg plyometrics, and progressive tendon overload done consistently and patiently. That’s what changed everything. Not rest. Not avoidance. Not shortcuts. But teaching the tendon how to absorb and produce force again. If you’re stuck in the cycle of Achilles pain, I know how dark and endless it can feel. But there is a way out. Tendons adapt when you give them the right stimulus, structure, and time. This is the tough work I coach runners through every day. If you want to level up your training and finally run pain-free, comment “100” and let’s have a proper chat about where you’re at.

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Blue Mountains, Australia

It’s extremely difficult to have a shit day when you start it with the sunrise, breathwork, run, and ocean dip. Stack positive habits.

The mind can change the mind. It just takes time. The body works faster. Ultra running is powerful because it uses physical challenge to reorganise the mind — not the other way around. You don’t think your way into transformation. You move your way there.

2025 was the most expansive year of my life. In January, I moved to a small beach town in Costa Rica on a complete whim and turned it into my home. I committed to posting on Instagram every single day for the first 33 days of the year, saw progress in the numbers, and more importantly experienced a profound shift in my relationship with how I was perceived by others and what I should or shouldn’t post online. In February, I travelled around Japan with my brother and parents, went skiing with two of my best mates from Australia, and experienced a completely novel culture and way of life. Presence and connection with loved ones will always come before business and digital growth. In March, I returned to Costa Rica and was invited by @paulinthejungle to live in a beautiful house in the jungle with other young entrepreneurs who became my family. Two weeks somehow turned into two months in that house. I launched The Distance Project and got 25 people in my first group coaching cohort - a huge win. Long-standing internal patterns of fear and self-judgment began to dissipate. I took a friend of mine, Josh, on his first ultramarathon - 51km with 2,500m of elevation gain - which he described as an ayahuasca trip. The furthest he’d run prior was 10km. In April, I summited Mount Chirripó, Costa Rica’s highest mountain, with my mate Yostin. We climbed 2,800m and covered 21km in 5 hours and 50 minutes. Serious altitude sickness hit hard, and we were both viscerally reminded how much of a privilege it is to feel strong, fast, and capable in the mountains. On the descent, an old lower-back injury returned and put me through absolute misery. I began living off Bitcoin in my small town, paying for rent and groceries while being compensated by a handful of clients in the same currency. Organic market hauls, barefoot and shirtless gym sessions, heated ping-pong battles, morning breathwork sessions at the waterfall, family dinners, sunsets, and surfing with friends became the daily norm. Weekly ecstatic dance helped me unblock physical expression and creativity I had shut down for over a decade. (Full caption continued in the comments section below)

Your legs don’t quit first. Your nervous system does. When things get hard in an ultra, the stress response goes through the roof — adrenaline, cortisol, panic breathing. Nasal breathing is how you talk your body back from the edge. It tells your physiology: “I’m safe. I’m in control. I can keep going.” That ability to regulate how you feel in real time is one of the biggest performance multipliers there is in long-distance running. This isn’t about being calm. It’s about staying functional when everything hurts. Train your breath like you train your legs. Nasal strips by @flow_recovery yes, they work 🫁👃 #nasalbreathing #ultrarunning #endurancetraining #nervoussystem #hybridathlete ultramindset

The desert in Egypt isn’t empty. It’s FULL. Full of silence so loud it resets your nervous system. Full of space to think clearly for the first time in years. Full of vastness that makes your problems feel manageable. It strips you back, slows you down, and gives you perspective you didn’t know you were missing. This place is like being on another planet.

Trail vs Road running isn’t about speed or surface. It’s about control vs uncertainty. On the road, you run the plan. On the trail, you adapt the plan. One rewards precision. The other rewards presence. Same sport. Completely different nervous system. Some days I want splits and certainty. Other days I want dirt, mistakes, and stories I can’t measure. Neither is better. But they don’t train you the same.