Michelle Dziego
Welcome to the new me, I hope you like her because I sure do! It’s funny, I didn’t mean to change. It wasn’t a goal, I didn’t think I was a bad person, I guess I just evolved. Ten years ago, I was a grumpy nineteen year old, trying to work out what I was … Read more
I never thought 8 years ago that I could run ..any distance…I mean ANY distance..from the front door to the letterbox I thought was for crazy people! At the age of 45, while holding down a major corporate job, raising two great kids, supporting 2 step children, supporting my parents as dad was slowly passing … Read more
Like most training plans out there that focus on training for endurance events you are likely to see “HILLS” on the program once or even twice a week. Not only do hill sessions keep training plans interesting and varied, they serve an important role in building your performance throughout the training cycle. Hill running can … Read more
The more races I enter the more I find that the most memorable runs are not the ones where PBs are broken but the ones that are defined by the people I share the adventure with. Flinders Tour 52km was always going to be a training run for me and so in all honesty I … Read more
I’ve been a little quiet on the social media front since the Commonwealth Games. A campaign like the Commonwealth Games takes a level of focus and commitment that is all consuming. You find yourself saying “I’ll sort that out after the marathon” multiple times per day. Once the race was over the to-do list was far … Read more
It’s daunting signing up to an overseas trail event because it’s very hard to know exactly what’s in store for you. Couple that with limited understanding of technical language and a remote mountain location and well, all you can do is laugh, lace up and make the most of it. I was born in Portugal … Read more
I thought I better write my BVRT100miler recap before it all became a distant memory. Who chooses to run 100 miles and why do they do it? For me, it hadn’t been one of my running goals…not like my goal to run the NY Marathon…one day!! I heard about the BVRT100miler through a friend a couple … Read more
It is hard to talk about our own life and experiences because that involves so many details and emotions. I will try to simplify it for you, so I can share a little bit of my journey of “finding myself”. Motherhood is the most beautiful, magical and sweetest thing that happened to me. Though, for … Read more
To truly understand my running story I need to take you back almost 30 years to 1989 when a 12 year old me started high school. I had always been somewhere in the middle of the pack at sports, but then I found myself at an elite high school with a strong sporting focus. It … Read more
We are Iron(wo)mans! There is a very long (and potentially not very interesting) story around how I came to start running and training for triathlons. In a nutshell, I essentially struggled for years with infertility, finally had our beautiful (now 6 years old) son on our 8th cycle of particularly invasive IVF, had a further … Read more
The majority of women who are reading this article probably don’t think that they are any good at running, or that they could be better, or faster or fitter, or that they don’t belong in the running scene, or that they are some kind of imposter that calls themselves a runner. Well I am here … Read more
I didn’t need much convincing when a friend suggested we take a trip to New Zealand for the Hawkes Bay Marathon. It was my first trip to NZ and my husband Dean and I decided to make a holiday out of it and take the kids over for 10 days. This was marathon #5 for … Read more
The Royal Run 21stMay, 2018- Copenhagen Denmark- A fantastic way to celebrate Crown Prince Frederik’s 50thbirthday! I recently went to Denmark to run the Copenhagen marathon and The Royal Run. I participated in both runs and they were both amazing experiences. The Royal Run was how Prince Frederik decided to celebrate his 50thbirthday with his people. … Read more