I needed that session this morning, after being off crook for a few days it was a great tonic to get back to the group - I believe it's impossible to have a bad day after starting with a PCRG session.

Well done!

I work as a cabinet maker/joiner fulltime and also as a part time gym instructor teaching Less Mills Body Pump and RPM. Have my own personal Training Business - Infocus Personal Trainers 0421 631 466. I live in Everton Park and have lived in Brisbane since I was born and joined the Pat Carroll running group in March 2005

My favourite restaurant is Everton Hills Seafood restaurant (it’s a fish n chip shop really).

My earliest childhood memory is sitting in the middle of the football field at Graceville after getting bitten by a green ant at the age of 5 while playing my first game of football. I said there and then that I would give the game away. I did give it away, 26 years later.

My favourite movie is The Octagonal Story (a documentary).

Brisbane City is the best place in the world to live because 1 hour South or North and you have the best beaches in the World and just a short boat trip will see you on Moreton Island or Straddie. We are very lucky! We also have Lang Park, the best football ground in the World.

My regular holiday destination is Sunshine coast, Kings Beach.

If money was no option I would quit my day job and expand my personal training business. I get great satisfaction out of training people and helping them achieve their goals. It is a very rewarding thing and I love it.

It frustrates me when people worry about what happened yesterday. It’s gone so let it go and focus on what is ahead of you, not behind you.

I have been involved in running since 2004 when I retired from football and my most memorable running experience is doing the Noosa Half Marathon in 2004 with no training, I only entered three days before the race. I just wanted to make sure I finished and I did it in just over 87min. That is also the day I heard the story of Boris the Big Brown Bear for the first time.

I enjoy distance running because I hate walking. I really do!

My favourite run is the 3km time trial we do once a month.

Motivation is something that the PC running group has in large amounts. Amazing group of people!

Injuries are something you learn to live with after being bashed for 26 years playing football. I am lucky to have come away with knees and ankles that aren’t too bad, but I could do with a couple of replacement shoulders.

Retiring from football was a turning point in my life because I joined the gym and also started running which led me to starting my own PT business and teaching at the gyms.

The Pat Carroll running group is an amazing group of people who deserve every bit of success they can achieve. Great people to train with! There is always someone to push you that little bit harder.

I prefer running in the Sunday morning group because you have a chat and a laugh along the way and before you know it you have been running for two hours.

Running is very rewarding physically and mentally, but very difficult to do in winter in Europe.

The best quote I read was ''Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them. A desire, a dream a vision. They have to have last minute stamina, they have to be a little faster. They have to have the skill and the will. But the Will must be stronger than the skill''. Muhammad Ali

Jockeys inspire me.

I will never regret anything I do be it right or wrong. No one is perfect so there is no use trying to be.

I will post your Gold Coast 2006 Goal on my site as well as on a board which will be displayed at the group sessions.

I encourage you to accept the challenge.

Please get out your diaries, your PATHWAY to success will involve these important dates.

''Mate, why don't you get off that kid's bike and show us what you got''!

April 4: 3k Time Trial

Thurs 30th: 50min + No Watch 1k + Monthly Breakfast courtesy of Gold Coast Airport Marathon

Possibly you (or your company) would enjoy being a PCRG 'Countdown to Gold Coast' 2006 sponsor.

There are also opportunities available to be a naming rights sponsor for a PCRG post training session breakfast and/or a PCRG seminar.

The Brisbane Running Buddies and the Regatta Runners are running from The Regatta Hotel this Saturday starting at 6am, running varying distances from around 5k up to over 25k. Brekky/coffee afterwards at The Regatta.

All welcome.

Contact tfabian@bigpond.net.au if further details are required.

You can enter online.

Make sure you visit INTRAINING @ Park Rd Milton for all your running needs.

Thank you INTRAINING for being a PCRG sponsor.

Australia's newest and most comprehensive running magazine.

The April/May Issue of R4YL is OUT NOW.

Look out for the basics of Mountain Running, the Beautiful side of Sarah Jamieson, Vegetarian versus Meat Lovers diets, Commonwealth Games Preview, National Track and Field wrap up, Returning from Injury, plus a plethora of others assortments and of course all of the usual race results and reports.

Thank you R4YL for being a PCRG sponsor.

The Canberra Marathon could be your first major goal in 2006.

Thank you to pb sports nutriton for your ongoing support in providing product which is used at the group sessions.

Thank you ''The Ship Inn'' for being a PCRG sponsor.

INTRAINING stocks an extensive range of MIZUNO shoes and running apparel.

Thank you MIZUNO for being a PCRG sponsor.

If you fail to follow a sensible diet your body will not gain full benefit from all of those enjoyable and challenging runs and you won't recover as well as you possibly could.

Kerith Duncanson is an accredited dietician as well as a former International class runner. An online dietary assessment by Kerith may assist you to achieve your goal.

Kerith offers 20% off her advertised fees to any runners involved with me through online coaching or any runner who is a regular member of PCRG.

You can purchase your Fuel Belt from INTRAINING.

Thank you FUEL BELT for being a PCRG sponsor.

The Brisbane Marathon/Half Marathon and 10k is the second event noted on our 'Countdown to Gold Coast' pathway.

Thank you ''Auscript'' (Peter Wyatt) for being a PCRG sponsor.