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Dreaming of being a Pro Cyclist, but better at driving the pens than the peloton?
Here's your chance to feel like a professional cyclist. There's few chances in life where you can actually put your feet into the shoes of another profession, discipline or role and really live it as an expert in that field does. Unless you're an Actor perhaps....
Sometimes it can help to go back, reverse
On a bicycle you're always looking ahead, scanning, anticipating, looking at the path forwards. Your head is up, identifying obstacles, changes or hazards ahead, searching for clear space. It's a very rare occasion you'll fully look back whilst going forwards, it...
Team building 101 – IT Execs on mountain bikes? Why not!
There’s something brilliant about seeing people outside their comfort zone exhibiting all of the inner drive, enthusiasm and genuine eagerness to overcome the situation. It was with excitement that an invitation to assist Ride International deliver a guided mountain bike group day. Pat Fitzpatrick, who spends much of the year in Europe hosting tours to the major road races or providing high level MTB and Road cycling coaching services, lead a group of senior executives on a MTB tour around Melbourne’s Lysterfield Park trails.
Vintage Astronaut Ice-cream
The question is: Is there a market for vintage astronaut ice-cream? Many years ago, let's round it out at 30 years ago, my Father presented me with a gift from the Anaheim Space Museum. A packet of bona fide freeze-dried Astronaut Ice-Cream. How can you tell it's...
Extending Boundaries
Limitations and boundaries, sometimes they're there to keep us from straying, at other times they're merely a motivator to push to create a new perceived limit. The Hume Hwy Over the weekend, not only were some assumptions tested, pre-existing limitations were...
Targeting optimum performance and optimal preparation?
The period leading up to a new role, project or event is an exciting time. The anticipation and excitement is enveloping as thoughts of the unknowns run free. How can this energy be best channelled for optimum performance upon arrival? These last weeks the countdown...
Endurance, Conservation and Emptying the Tank
Unfinished business, five years has passed by, and now a return to what some would consider hallowed turf. Endurance of the mind, the body, memories; it's time to empty the tank. This mind excursion is set in Rotorua, New Zealand, particularly in the Whaka 100km MTB...
Secession Success – Raven Mad
It's October. It started in January. Tick. Tock. What started as a desire to create a bicycle frame that celebrated the hallmarks of a bygone era - lugs, steel tubing, artisan styled passion, simplicity - has pushed and prodded feelings of despondency to exhilaration....
Performance potential. At work?
At maarq, we're not ever too far away from a training program, a cycling fitness training program that is. The training program tends to bookend the day. In the morning it's usually completing a fitness workout on the training plan (TP) and at the end of the day it...
What do you want to do?
The past weekend was spent visiting the Barossa Valley in South Australia, about a Barossa Valley SA">nine hour drive from Melbourne, or even quicker by air. The purpose was to do a reconnaissance of the district by bike ahead of the planned fundraising ride next...
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Since 2014, Marlon Quinn – Fluid Movement Outdoors, has been a trusted leader for those seeking a better life with breathwork.
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