Turia Pitt

A few months ago, my inbox pinged with a new email. Inside was a letter from one of my Run With Turia members (Run with Turia is the running program I made for Mums!). I read it once. Then immediately read it again. And then cried while I read it a third time. It still makes me cry every time I read it. Here it is: I’d just left the house (zero out of four kids asleep, house...

I think there’s a widely held belief that ‘fit and healthy’ people must leap out of their beds at 4 am EVERY morning, energy blazing, fuelled only by a bone broth-kombucha-spirulina smoothie. Attainable for a select few I’m sure, but for the rest of us mere mortals, it seems like a recipe for disaster.

I woke up tired and irritated. Hakavai woke me up at 3 am because he was worried about his rock collection down at the beach.

Sabotaging your own workouts? We’ve ALL been there! Between the kids, home, work, and partners and all the things – everything else seems to take priority on our to-do lists that by the time we start thinking about doing something for ourselves – we’re too tired. Or worse, we don’t even get to it.