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Easter Newsletter! 🐇🐣
Happy Easter Everyone!
What a week across the board, let's get into it!
David has just wrapped up his first week back on the marathon program. Welcome back to the grind, David, the hardest week is always the first one, and you've ticked it off! 💪
is back into the run:walk program and is embracing every phase ahead. Love the attitude, Damo, the process works when you trust it!
🌴 Cairns Cohort 🌴are ticking along beautifully.
Jessie just completed her first week of Ironman volume while managing work commitments, and she absolutely nailed it. That kind of week builds more than fitness; it builds belief.
is settling into her new job and finding her rhythm again with training volume, and she even took herself to swim squad this week! 🙌 That kind of self-motivation is everything.
is on fire 🔥 her premium Infinit mix is delivering some serious results on her long bike days. When nutrition and training align, magic happens!
🌴 70.3 Cairns 🌴
is mastering the juggle between family life and training demands, showing up every single week with everything she's got. We've worked some Synergy magic ✨ on her schedule and she's rolling.
is well into her 70.3 build and is striking a brilliant balance between trainer rides and outdoor sessions. Looking strong, Nell!
Ultraman World 🌎
is an absolute machine. We've been fitting in some serious sessions — all around Easter and camping trips — and she even had out there supporting her. One massive week to go, Tabatha. You've got this. 🙌
and are ticking along down south — congratulations to on a huge open water swim set, what an effort! Hopefully the lads can link up with this week and hit some hills together. 🏔️
🥗 Fueling for the Work You're Doing 🍞
This week feels like a good time to touch on a principle that quietly underpins everything we do, fueling for the athlete you actually are right now.
Endurance training places enormous demands on the body. Long rides, big run weeks, and back-to-back sessions require glycogen, protein for recovery, and enough overall energy to adapt and absorb the work. When we under-fuel, whether intentionally or just through busy life, our body has no choice but to break down the very muscle we're working so hard to build. Recovery stalls, fatigue compounds, performance plateaus, and the risk of injury climbs.
This doesn't mean nutrition has to be complicated. The basics matter most: eat enough to support your training load, prioritise carbohydrates around sessions, don't skip meals on big days, and remember that looking a certain way and performing at your best are often two very different goals — especially in the middle of a build. If your training load has increased recently, your fuel needs to reflect that. Your body is doing incredible things, give it what it needs to keep showing up. 🙏
💭 Final Thought
Early in my career as an emergency nurse in a busy trauma centre, after the dust settled on a hectic resuscitation, we had a question we'd ask ourselves:
"Did I do the very best that I could, with the resources available to me, in the current situation I was in?"
If the answer was yes — then there was nothing more that could have been done. And that meant there was no room for guilt, second-guessing, or self-criticism. Just honesty, and then moving forward.
I want you to carry that question into your training week. Not every session will be perfect. Life gets in the way. Sleep isn't always great. Work, family, stress — it's all real. But if you showed up, gave what you had, and did the best you could with what you had available — that is enough. That is always enough.
Stop measuring yourself against an idealised version of conditions that rarely exist. Start measuring yourself against the only fair standard there is:
your honest best, right now.
With that being said, also set yourself up for success. Put into Training Peaks what works best for you and your family, add some of that synergy magic and the rest will follow.
Let's have a great week. 💙
Erica. Xxx.
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Easter Newsletter! 🐇🐣
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