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After back surgery cut short her successful career as a professional triathlete and duathlete in 2008, former world champion and double Olympian, Michelle Dillon, switched to coaching. Since then, she’s worked with a host of world class triathletes (from Jodie Stimpson to Emma Pallant) as part of her coaching business, Team Dillon.

Here, Michelle talks about what a typical day in her busy life as a coach looks like.

How do you know when the lingering fatigue you feel after training is more than just the after-effect of a sensibly tough workout schedule? Here, in a post that could also be titled ‘One Girl and Her Idiotic Training Decisions’, I talk about my personal experience with overtraining/underperformance syndrome. It’s long, but read to the end for expert advice from applied sport scientist, Dr Barney Wainwright, on how to spot and treat the symptoms of overtraining.

Phoebe Schecter made headlines earlier this year when she became the first British woman to take on a coaching role in America’s NFL. To say this is a pretty big deal is an understatement; it wasn’t until two years ago that a woman first coached in the NFL.

If you love listening to (and hearing about) inspiring women within the realm of adventure and sport – and presumably you do, otherwise you’re kinda in the wrong place! – you’ll want to hotfoot it to this year’s Women’s Adventure Expo in Bristol on Saturday 7^th.

It’s one thing to summit Kilimanjaro as a hiker and battle altitude sickness and fatigue, but to run up it – and set a new world record in the process? That’s another level of crazy.

As yesterday saw ultra-runner Fernanda Maciel set a new women’s world record for the fastest Kilimanjaro summit and return (to the top and back in an amazing 10 hours 6 minutes), 29-year-old Sundried ambassador and ultra runner, Becky Shuttleworth, recounts what it was like to set her own Kili running world record two years ago.

This Saturday some of the world’s best obstacle course racers will line up in Tahoe for the Spartan Race World Championship. Gunning for the win will be pro OCR athlete, Faye Stenning, who, in addition to taking third place in last year’s Spartan World Championship, raced herself into the number one spot in the 2016 global Spartan Race world rankings.

While tapering for Tahoe, Faye took time out to answer my questions on training, racing and crazy weighted pull-ups…

Love the outdoors? There’s still time to book your ticket for November’s Kendal Mountain Festival. Set across four inspiring days in the Lake District, this year’s event sees outdoor enthusiasts come together with some of the industry’s leading brands, adventurers, climbers, runners and authors for talks, adventure film screenings and lots more.

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30-year-old Anoushé Husain gives an honest account of the challenges she has faced and overcome as a paraclimber with both a limb difference and the ‘invisible’ disability of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

I’m Anoushé and I was born with my right arm missing below the elbow, I am a cancer survivor, a Muslim who wears a headscarf, and I live with invisible conditions. When I’m not in the office, I train as a paraclimber and use my voice to talk about and challenge barriers and self-limiting beliefs.

Taking a world champion title at elite level triathlon is an incredible, career-defining achievement. But winning the title of World Champion across three triathlon disciplines? Now that’s extraordinary. Enter Flora Duffy, freshly crowned two-time ITU World Champion, ITU Cross triathlon World Champion, XTERRA World Champion, and last year the first woman to achieve the trio of world titles in one racing year.

Here, the almost-30-year-old Bermudan, who splits her time between Boulder, Colorado and Stellenboch, South Africa, talks about training, 2018 goals and the challenge of fitting XTERRA triathlon training into an already jam-packed ITU schedule.

Inspired by her mountain-loving grandfather’s dream of having his grandchildren scale a serious mountain, Dr Alex Davidson was 35 when she set herself the challenge of climbing Africa’s highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania. Here, she recounts the highs and lows of reaching the 5895m summit.