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Physio💆♀️ @upandrunningdubai Triathlete 🏊♀️🚴♀️🏃♀️ @akhaendurance coach 🇿🇦 in the UAE 🇦🇪 Maurten.ae : discount code COACHMEL
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From a DNF at her first 70.3 to racing IM World Champs in Kona…
There have been no shortcuts, Mel does things properly and has done so for long enough.
That’s how she coaches too.
Welcome to her story. 🩷💙
04 May 2026
Mel the athlete 🙌
To be honest I have never really identified as an “athlete” I still see that title as one for the Pros out there! However I do love my triathlon life. I have been pursuing the triathlon dream for just over 10 years now and it just keeps getting better 🙌 here’s to the next decade of sweaty miles
12 Apr 2023
My full time job and long time passion has been the human body and how we move. This led me to Physiotherapy. This dynamic career allows me to work with athletes and office workers alike. Forming human connections as we walk a healing journey together. 💆♀️
10 Apr 2023
Holiday stats
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Cups of tea 🫖
Chats🗣️
Braais 🍖
Fantastic food 🥘
A fair number of G&Ts 🍹
17 Oct 2026
Training is hard but it’s something I’ll never take for granted
What a privilege to step out in pursuit of fully selfish endeavours -just to prove to yourself how far you can go 🩷💙
05 Oct 2026
Exercise is good for us.
But more exercise isn’t always better.
And sometimes what looks like discipline from the outside can actually be a really unhealthy relationship with training.
Exercise addiction isn’t simply training a lot.
It’s when exercise starts to feel compulsive. When you feel like you have to train, even when you’re injured, exhausted or unwell.
When missing a session causes guilt, anxiety or irritability.
When you train to compensate for what you’ve eaten.
When rest days feel harder mentally than training days.
Or when training starts taking priority over your health, relationships, work or other parts of your life.
And this is where it can be difficult to recognise in endurance sport.
Because a lot of these behaviours are normalised.
Training through pain is called toughness.
Never missing a session is called commitment.
Doing more than the programme says is called motivation.
But being a committed athlete also means being able to rest.
It means being able to change a session when your body needs it.
And it means understanding that your worth, fitness and identity aren’t determined by whether you trained today.
The goal isn’t to exercise less.
It’s to have a relationship with exercise where you’re still the one making the decisions.
02 Sep 2026
Fatigue doesn’t always come from one big session.
More often, it accumulates.
A hard session here. A longer session there. Work stress. Less sleep. The heat. Poor fuelling. Life being life.
Individually, none of those things might seem like a problem.
But your body doesn’t reset to zero every morning or Monday morning .
You carry fatigue from one session into the next, and when the recovery between them isn’t quite enough, that fatigue gradually starts to build.
That’s when sessions that should feel easy suddenly don’t. Pace drops. Heart rate changes. Legs feel heavy. Motivation disappears.
It doesn’t automatically mean you’re losing fitness or that you need to push harder.
Sometimes you’re simply tired.
And good training isn’t just about knowing when to push.
It’s knowing when the accumulated load has done its job and giving your body the opportunity to actually adapt to it.
23 Aug 2026
12 weeks post MCL injury and today was the first proper marathon pace session back
It’s funny how quickly 12 weeks can pass, but also how long it can feel when you’re waiting for your body to be ready to do the things you love again.
There’s been no magic comeback. Just a lot of patience, rehab, strength work, run/walks, easy running and slowly adding load back in.
Today was the first time we put some real marathon pace work back into the legs, and it felt like a pretty big milestone.
The biggest thing I’ve had to remind myself through this process is that you can’t rush healing. You can do all the right things, but your body still needs time to do what it needs to do.
Trust the process. Build slowly. Tick off the boring sessions. Don’t panic when fitness doesn’t come back overnight.
Because eventually the things that felt very far away start to feel normal again.
Still building. Still being sensible. But very happy to be properly running again 🫶
12 weeks down. Now we build. 🏃♀️
19 Aug 2026
Road to the T100
We held our first community event over the weekend and it was a great success
Mid July in Dubai and yet the athletes showed up 💪
From first timers to experienced we had them all and everyone participated in a sweaty brick session
Triathlon may be an individual sport but this is what keeps you coming back !
Building community one pedal stroke at a time
Huge thanks to all our partners for the support and prizes
@t100community
@oakleymiddleeast
@maurten_official
@newbalancerunning
@akhaendurance
@wolfis
See you all in August 🏊🚴🏃
26 Jul 2026
Another year as a T100 captain
A privilege to share my passion with the community from first timers to the old dogs! As we build up to another edition of @t100triathlon Dubai I look forward to supporting, answering and then watching the community grow and develop as we work towards that start line
With some happy times along the way 🎉
21 Jul 2026
A year ago going Sub-11 would have meant the world to me but this year I can’t feel quite happy about it.
After reflecting on my day I realized it was not the time I am unhappy about it was how the race came apart on the run - again.
But from the beginning. I had an ambitious goal, on the perfect day I hoped I could go sub 10; I dreamed about it but deep down already thought it wouldn’t happen. My bike is just not strong enough. I had a real good preparations with a solid training block, no illness or other niggles that held me up. The race plan was clear and I was ready to attack the day.
The swim went reasonably well and I cam out only 3 minutes short of the plan. I started the bike and tried to hold my self back and ride to my numbers. This turned out challenging on the rolling course. After the first lap I already knew that sub 10 was gone abut I was determined to finish strong. After 180km on the bike my legs felt heavy, initially I settled in to a good pace on the run. For 10km I ran with some fatigue but started to feel increasingly less powerful with sore quads and a tight hamstring. My stomach cried out when I took nutrition and I just wasn’t feeling good anymore. I started walking in and around aid stations, beginning to hold on to dear life. At km 29 I had to let my emotions out, I was frustrated how my race was falling apart, how I envisioned this moment so differently: racing a race. Instead I felt like crawling along, feeling disappointed that all this preparation came down to me suffering so much. After stopping, settling my emotions and taking a brief break I gathered all I got to finish the race with the right attitude. With 6km to go I realized that sub-11 wasn’t gone yet and I emptied the tank, ran through the pain in my legs and carried my body over the line. I turned around and saw 10:55 next to my name and I felt relieve.
All that I wonder is, if I could have done something differently. I don’t know right now and will take some time to figure things out.
A huge thanks to my wife to supporting me all the way ❤️ and Thanks to @melissa_abbey_physio of @akhaendurance to getting me there in the best possible shape.
07 Jul 2026
Summary of the first 4 weeks
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Some ice initially (jury is out on this but for me it gives some pain relief)
Rest from running totally
Walking as tolerated
This is not medical advise but purely my experience with the injury
Started with swimming (pull bouy included)
Adding in cycling because
1. It improves knee range of motion without loading the joint
2. Primary exercise type usually meaning the rest of my body isn’t under stress
3. Endorphins are good for healing and maintaining routine
Tips
High cadence
Seated
Short sessions to start
Medial support for work mostly
Personally felt worse when taped a lot of the time so didn’t do this for long but on days when I had to stand a lot I did know it was giving that healing ligament a bit of support so it could knit back up
Assisted flexion
Using a band as it allows more range and causes less discomfort
This was at week 2 so not immediately post injury
Isometric leg holds
Focusing on knee extension without any lag
Engaging from the quad and not the hip flexor
A more compromised version definitely couldn’t have done this early on
A good sign things were progressing well
26 Jun 2026
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