This week’s mindful moment invites a playful shift in awareness: watch how your shadow moves. As you walk, run, or go about your day, take a moment to notice your shadow - how it swings, stretches, and shifts with your body. It’s a subtle mirror of your posture, alignment, and rhythm, offering gentle feedback on how you’re showing up in each moment. You can even play with it - exaggerate your steps or sway your arms and see how your shadow responds.

Beyond movement, it’s a reminder that you’re here, walking in the light, moving through your day with presence. Let your shadow become a quiet companion that reflects your aliveness and unique rhythm in the world.

Spend just five minutes with this practice, and see how it can bring calm and clarity to your day.

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Karin is back… and wow, she’s packed a LOT into this check-in.

Since we last spoke, Karin has been adventuring her way through Spain, France and the UK — hiking 20–30km a day, tackling a seriously brutal mountain race in Spain, and discovering just how different real mountains are compared to “hills” back home in WA 😅

In this episode, Karin shares what it was like to miss a race cutoff by less than three minutes, why that DNF hit hard, and how it’s lit a fire to come back stronger. We also chat about travel fitness, time on feet, jet lag, silly season strategies, and why she’ll never complain about hills again.

This is a real, honest, funny and very human check-in — full of perspective, learning, laughter, and a bit of unfinished business.

Why you’ll love this episode

•🇪🇸 Running (and hiking!) through Spain’s mountains and villages

•⛰️ 900m of climbing in the first 4km… yes, really

•😭 Missing a cutoff by 2 minutes 50 seconds — and what that does to your head

•💪 Why DNFs can become powerful motivators

•🚶‍♀️ 200km of walking in 3 weeks and why it helped fitness

•✈️ Travel legs, swollen calves, jet lag and the reality of post-travel running

•🎄 Karin’s “Christmas Cracker Challenge” to stay consistent over December

•🎉 Why European races celebrate everyone — especially the last runner

•🔥 Big goals, hill training plans, and Delirious WEST 2026 momentum building

Karin’s takeaway

You don’t need everything to go perfectly to move forward. Sometimes a tough race, a missed cutoff, or a hard lesson is exactly what sharpens your focus and makes you stronger for what’s next.

🎧 Listen now and come along for the ride as Karin builds toward Delirious WEST 2026 with grit, humour and a whole lot of heart.

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In this latest Delirious WEST 2026 athlete check-in, I’m catching up with Bianca O’Neill — and wow… a LOT has happened since we last spoke.

In this honest and very relatable catch-up, Bianca shares what it was really like racing Feral (yes… that heat, those flies, those cut-offs 😅)

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