Diesel Dialogue

Bec McLeish is a keen bushwalker and trail runner these days - and even ran a half marathon recently. She is married to Tony and works as a pharmacist in a local Brisbane hospital. She is a delightful person and it will do you good to hear her running journey and her epic broken pinky story! #Run, #Runniing, #Fitness, #Exercise, #Health, #Community, #Jogging

Chatting tonight at TEEs training with the champions who ran at the Gold Coast Marathon over the weekend. So many magic moments and wonderful community support for all involved. None better than 10 year old Sam running the last 11k of the 42k marathon with his mum, Jess.  

Sean recently completed his first ever full 42k marathon at the Brisbane Marathon festival. His wife Renae and his children regularly run parkrun and come to TEEs with him, as running has become a regular and important part of his life. The benefits are amazing for him as an individual, but also socially and as a husband and father.

Alex was born in Brazil and has a busy career as an engineer. He is a family man as well and his work life balance got out of whack to the point that he needed to make some big changes. Running was part of that journey and he is doing his first full marathon at the Gold Coast next weekend. His running story is inspirational!

Kirsten loves chatting to people and tends to enjoy this more than running. Her son Angus is also keen and runs to keep fit for footy, so she started coming to TEEs for him. She now comes to TEEs without Angus and has just signed up for the GC 10k. She is becoming more of a runner than she had planned.

Bec is, by nature, a shy sort of person who really doesn't like running. However she joined Tees, made a heap of new friends and now is training for the Gold Coast Half Marathon. She is a lovely person and her running story from zero to 21k, is wonderful.    

Julia is a regular at the Toohey Trot on a Wednesday morning. Her running story is heartwarming, as it has been so important for her well being. Julia is originally from the Ukraine and has found running to be one of the ways she copes with stress and makes new friends.

Sarah is a seasoned Iron woman and trail runner even though as a child she hated all things sporty. She is a  regular at the Wednesday Tooheys Trot and we chat together after a Friday morning Whites Hill adventure about her trail running journey. She is delightful.    

My lovely cousin Christine saw me parkrunning ten or so years ago and thought if he can do it ..... Now her and her husband Jeff are seasoned runners and love their parkrun community.

Darren and his wife Janine are regulars at the Toohey Trot trail run on a Wednesday morning. He reckons it's a bit like speed dating. You chat for a while and the someone else comes along and you chat to them - and repeat!  

Melissa has been involved in running for well over ten years.  We kind of knew each other from Thompson Estate Running Club, but we now really know each other as we ran together regularly on a recent cruise we happened to be on together. "It's like visiting the hairdresser when you run - you tend to share your whole life story"!

Tara is a regular at the Tooheys Trot and recently completed her first 100k ultra at Tarewarra in New Zealand. We chat about the experience just 5 days after arriving home.

Kristine is one of the most honest and joyful people on the trails. Her enthusiasm for life and insights into why running is so helpful to her, will inspire you and bring a smile to your face. She is a delight! #Run, #Running, #Fitness, #Exercise, #Health, #Community, #Jogging, #TooheyTrot

Nick and his wife Nicola have both run full marathons in the last 12 months and have inspired many others to train and aim higher in their running journeys too. He's a friendly and adventurous sort of guy and it will do you good to listen to his story.    

The regular BTR Wednesday Toohey Trot trail running group wanted to make sure our buddy Tara, who is running the NZ Tarawera 100 Kilometre trail run on Saturday Feb 17th, knows we love her and are with her all the way on her epic journey.  This podcast is a compilation of words of encouragement from her mates!

The Wednesday morning Toohey Trot is arguably the most well attended weekly trail run in Brisbane. It's so popular because of people like Kristen Lyons. She is warm, enthusiastic, intelligent and courageous. She is planning to run a 50k trail in her 50th year. We all need people like Kristen in our lives.   

Jayme Leonard has always been good at running, but only recently has she discovered that running Trails is "the best thing ever" and that trail runners are her "tribe". Her other classic quote is "Nobody should ever run on concrete". She is a wonderful human and is super encouraging and enthusiastic. She recently did the Tarawera 50k trail in NZ and already has two 50k trail run events in her 2024 calendar. 

Liz is 65 years young and this year despite the small hiccup of sustaining a broken shoulder managed to run 5277 kilometers. She has 14 Melbourne marathons to her name and this year is planning to do London, Sydney, Melbourne and Gold coast full 42k marathons. She is super friendly and encouraging and smashes all the "I'm too old for this" excuses out of the ball park. #Run, #Running, #Fitness, #Exercise, #Health, #Community, #Jogging

Cherie is one of the most joyful and enthusiastic runners I know. She has overcome massive challenges and will probably never be a podium finisher, but for courage and positivity, she is a gold medalist in my book! #Run, #Running, #Fitness, #Exercise, #Health, #Community, #Jogging, #NailPatellaSyndrome

Dominique Jones has been a consistent runner with the Toohey Trotters on a Wednesday morning for the last few years. She had no idea that when she joined this group that it would extend to mid week and weekend runs, trail marathons and a wonderful circle of friends to share life changing adventures with. #Run, #Running, #Exercise, #Fitness, #Health, # Community, #Jogging, #TooheyTrot, #TrailRun

Elsa came Australia 11 years ago from rural China and started running to lose some weight, get fit and make some new friends. Through running she met her husband and is pregnant with her second child, is fitter than ever and has lots of authentic caring friends. #Run, #Running, #Fitness, #Exercise, #Health, #Community, #Jogging

Wes and his wife Amy are regulars at the Thompson Estate Running Club (TEEs) and it's good for them to have this shared interest. Wes took a full 8 minutes of his previous 10k PB this year and is faster now in his 40s than he was in his 20s.  #Run, #Running, #Fitness, #Exercise, #Health, #Community, #Jogging, #TEEs, #ThompsonEstateRunningClub

Travis and his delightful daughters, Penelope-Rose and Gabriella run regularly at TEEs on Monday and Thursday nights. They come as a family and are getting faster and faster every week. They are very stylish girls and so are not just fast runners but are cute beyond words!

John Roundhill is often the Run Director at Mansfield Parkrun. He is also the local Anglican Bishop and has a fabulous running story. I interviewed John for my other podcast show Stories of Hope and this episode is a few excerpts from that interview where he talks about his running journey. #Run, #Running, #Fitness, #Exercise, #Health, #Community, #Jogging, #Parkrun  If you would like to listen to the full interview here is the link. https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/28832213    

Tara is a neurological scientist and her specialty is understanding how exercise creates new neurons in the hippocampus. She is running the 100k Tarawera ultra marathon next year and so is pretty darn amazing, but she happily plods along with me and the crew in the Tooheys Trot each Wednesday morning and is both interesting and delightful.   #run, #running, #fitness, #exercise, #health, #community, #jogging

Julie started running late in life and the difference this has made to her health and well being is nothing short of remarkable. She has run 3 full marathons and over 100 parkruns. She is delightful person and her running story will inspire and encourage you.

Jess has always been fit as she loves gymnastics and martial arts. However running was never her thing and if she did reluctantly run to get fit, she preferred to run alone. She now loves running and thinks running people are lovely - enough to get her whole family involved.  

Monica is a busy mum and a full time carer for her daughter who has disabilities. Her journey into running has helped her manage life for herself, but also inspired many others to give it a go without the fear of embarrassment or judgement. She leads a run coaching social enterprise called RUNNA UP and loves teaching people how to run with the correct technique.

Cara sprung an interview on me about my running journey the other Monday night at TEEs. Hope you enjoy it.

Hayley Lawrence leads the Toohey Trot trail run each Wednesday morning. She sets the culture for a running group that is a growing and caring sort of community. Running has been life transforming for her and she is dedicated to helping other people find this for themselves too.

Tara and her dog Henley join Bryce and Maggie at Mansfield parkrun on Cops and Robbers day for a chat and a walk. Tara's running journey has resulted in her transformation from a "non runner" to a sub 2 hour half marathoner but also from a newcomer to town, knowing nobody, to a person with a rich and wide variety of friends.

Janine and her husband Darren are regulars at the Brisbane Trail Runners Toohey Trot event on a Wednesday mornings. I caught up with Janine at Mansfield parkrun the other week and we had a great chat about her running journey and the many ways running is a fabulous part of her life.

Adrienne has been committed to exercise and fitness from an early age, but having kids really slowed this down. She found out about TEES at a parkrun and has really enjoyed the friendships and support of this community. She is bravely planning to do her first half marathon at the Gold Coast next year, because she saw how much support was given to people who did it this year and was emboldened to give it a crack.

Cara and I chat about running and how our friendship has resulted in me officiating at her wedding a year or so ago.  She ran a marathon recently and has done an impressive 269 parkruns in 113 different locations with a sub 20 minute PB.  She loves the community of running and how it helps her in so many areas of life.   

Carl is one of the Coaches at TEEs and helps us all push past our comfort zones and get faster and fitter.  Carl's first sporting love is Martial arts, but to improve cardio for this he started running.  He loves to see people achieve their goals and is an enthusiastic mentor and support to many.  

Almost every Saturday you will find Bree at Mansfield parkrun volunterring or pushing her tow kids along the course and most significantly up the dreaded mansfield Hill.  Bree is a running half marathons and involved at TEEs as much as her busy lifestyle will allow.  She is a wonderful friendly person and a great influencer of the inclusive and welcoming culture of the running community that we all love and value so much.

Leigh and her family are keen runners and are consistently at Parkrun, TEEs and many of the other running events on offer.  Leigh has a stressful job and finds exercise to be a helpful strategy to unwind and stay healthy.  She loves the frienship and support of the running community and even helped me achieve a parkrun course PB the other week.  

Jamie and his son Alex are regulars at Mansfield parkrun and at the TEES running club.  He values the community and has made more quality friends in just a few years involovement in running than he has anywhere else.  

Huw and his dog Luna are a much loved part of the Thompson Estate Running club. Huw recently completed the Gold Coast Marathon and speaks about the support and friendship that helped him get through this epic 42 kilometre run. Our hug at the 33k mark was a very special moment.

Sophie has been running for a few years now, but only recently found connection to the fabulous community that turns it from just fitness to real community.

Clare is a terrific runner and is getting faster all the time. Her confidence and self esteem has improved and she has heaps of new friends who encourage her and believe in her. Its a terrific community.

Alex is just a teenager but he is fast and dedicated to running. He attends Parkrun every week and often finishes in the top two or three. He recently ran in the Gold coast half marathon and achieved a truly epic result.

Chelsea has just recently started to attend parkrun but is now keen to get fit and loves that she has made so many new friends. Especially the puppies!!!

Bec runs nearly every day and loves the social side of this sport.  She recently completed her first half marathon and is a super enthusiastic and friendly part of the TEES and parkrun community.  She always gets into the spirit of our many celebrations and even had a baby with her on the "M" day at a recent parkrun. "M" for Mum!

Amy describes herself as a running, non runner. The difference running has made to her life is amazing.

G’day welcome to the first episode of a new podcast I’m gonna call “diesel dialogue”  My name is Bryce Davies and I’m a keen runner, but I’m big, slow and tend to huff and puff a little more than the fit petrol models alongside me.  However, I don’t mind taking on the long trails, so so some bright spark came up with the nickname “The Diesel”   Running has changed my life and I love how it gets me fit, connects me with wonderful people and gives me crazy adventures to look forward to. I don’t mind a chat and so have asked a few of my running buddies to share their stories and I reckon its good for the soul to hear such positivity and community spirit.    Tune in and let me know what you think.