The Crucial Miles

James Willis just ran 72km to mark his 72nd birthday and here is my interview with him. James Willis in a past race. Photo from his page It is now the second month of my working with James Willis, coaching him under my ...

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"In a study published by Clinical Psychological Science, those who engaged in positive self-talk felt more energized than those with a negative mindset. They also had a lower heart rate and sweat response (how much you sweat in response to distress), which triggered a feeling of relaxation."

Interesting." Gratitude Mile".

The ‘Gratitude Mile’ Might Be the Trick You Need to Power Through Your Long Runs When the remaining miles are looming large, this mindset tweak can motivate you to finish strong.

Thank you everyone for coming to our session today. Hope the sharing is useful for some of you.

Special thanks to our speaker James Willis and Sophia Ho for their sharing.

We, The Crucial Miles are trying our best to bring in more specific topic and knowledge sharing to everyone including ourselve, so please feel free to give us more feedback on the session and also what is the topic you will be interested to listen to(related to running) , we are more than welcome for all advice and feedback.

Thank you again and enjoy your run.

The upcoming event: Run Toward Longevity

Date : 6 October 2019(Sunday)
Time : 3.00pm

2nd Speaker: Sophia Ho

I am a Physiotherapist from Crucial Rehab. I specialise in musculoskeletal and sport injury, running injury prevention and post injury program, recovery and maintanence.

I am also an avid runner who started my own running journey 3 years ago. Fell in love with trail running, to me it is a indescribable joy to explore trails and I love the quote "Explore the world by foot".

My experience with working on athletes from competitive running to powerlifting, crossfit, dancers, hiker, and have covered the malaysia Muay Thai Sukma team among many others.

I believe in working together with athletes and growing together, providing solutions and treat my clients is my passion, reaching goals, higher standards and performance. No matter how much time and effort it takes, be sure we will try our best to help you achieve it.

I will be giving a talk on my experience of being a sports physiotherapist with the added perspective of a runner. Come join us and the
Content of talk are as below:

Injury Prevention: Understand your body
1. What is the difference of muscle Pain VS muscle soreness
2. Understand your body more
3. Importance of injury prevention/ Prehab

Registration link: https://forms.gle/jgpxTB4V6F85NTAc6

For further information, please call or WhatsApp Wanli at 010-2647177.

The upcoming event: Run Toward Longevity

Date : 6 October 2019(Sunday)
Time : 3.00pm

1st Speaker: James Willis

A.k.a running on old legs. I have been running on and off for almost sixty years.
I was very competitive until I entered university from then until my retirement and moved to Malaysia I ran solely for fun and fitness.

Once arriving in Malaysia, I returned to competitive running as I have the time to train properly now.

I have over time slowed down, but I have also increased my distances. I am now an avid Ultra runner, both on the road and in the trails. "Age and gender are not barriers, they are limitations that you put on yourself."

Recent running achievements:
🏃🏻 Vietnam Mountain Marathon (44kms) Age-group (60 plus) winner 2017 and 2018
🏃🏻 Back to Endurance. Veteran (40 plus) 2017 3rd Place
🏃🏻 Loose Goose three-day ultra 2018 Open 3rd Place
🏃🏻 Route 68 (100km) 2019 8th. Overall, 5th. Veteran (40 plus)

Content of talk - Running into your later years:
1. Introduction into running
2. Set your goals, they are not targets
3. How to train to achieve your goals

Registration link: https://forms.gle/jgpxTB4V6F85NTAc6

For further information, please call or WhatsApp Wanli at 010-2647177.

Our next sharing session is coming up on 6th October!!!

We are great and honor to have invited James Willis, Running on old legs and also Sophia Ho Physiotherapist who run ultra to be our next speaker.

More detail of the speaker and the topic will be coming up soon. Stay tune!!!!