Bumper rock hit Aussie marathon star lives by

The line “everything all the time” resonates with Goddard due to his unshakeable method to coaching and racing, and his larger-than-life character.

Toughened by a schedule that usually hits 180 kilometres in per week, he broke the mould by racing three marathons — the primary three of his profession — within the area of simply 5 months, clocking 2:15:13 eventually December’s Melbourne Marathon, 2:13:45 at April’s Manchester Marathon and a pair of:14:59 on the Copenhagen Marathon in May.

The ASICS-sponsored athlete is commonly noticed sporting an outfit embellished with flames, or one other sporting purple guitars with a purple rose, each of which have been made only for him by the sportswear juggernaut.

And his love of music, significantly rock ‘n’ roll, may even rival his ardour for pounding the bitumen.

As Goddard churns out his gruelling mileage, most of which he chalks up on the streets of Sydney’s north shore, a luscious blonde mullet flaps behind him like a superhero’s cape.

“I guess the main thing is just me being myself,” Goddard instructed Wide World of Sports.

“I love rock music, I love country rock and I love the showmanship of a frontman in a rock band.

“I actually like that stuff and I like embracing that flare and I do it for my very own enjoyment as a lot as the rest. I like doing what makes me pleased.

“There’s an Eagles quote in the song Life in the Fast Lane that’s “all the pieces on a regular basis”. I like that phrase because I kind of do like doing what I want all the time, and I think that’s a good way to approach anything.

“With my operating, I actually get pleasure from it, I really like what I do and I make it work for me, as effectively.

“I think a lot of people have set-in-stone ideas about how you have to train or how you have to go about things, but I’ve bottled all my best results on just being myself and enjoying it.”

On the primary Sunday of September, Goddard gained the Sydney Half Marathon within the time of 63:26, smashing the 20-year-old course document by practically a minute.

Two weeks later he gained the Sydney Running Festival Bridge Run, a 10-kilometre occasion, in 29:22.

“I think if you’re in a good mindset, that’s when it’s going to be most sustainable, you can do it for the most number of years, you can have the most fun with it,” Goddard stated.

“Even just being in a good mindset — it produces good hormones in your body. Those endorphins help you recover and put you in a good mindset to go hard. It’s sort of a win-win. The most fun I have with things — that puts me in a good position to get my best performances.

“Lots of people even have the mindset that you just should not take heed to music when you run as a result of in races you will not have music, or it isn’t pure … or it’s good to comply with this set plan … however I believe lots of people make it too laborious for themselves. If you are scuffling with motivation and also you’re depriving your self of listening to music, or any form of enjoyment, you have to query whether or not that is the appropriate factor to do.”

Goddard will have to chop almost four minutes off his personal best to run the London Marathon in less than two hours and 10 minutes, which to many might seem inconceivable.

But health issues and troubles at nutrition stations have hindered the early days of his marathon career.

A COVID-19 vaccination caused a heart problem that negated his build-up to the Melbourne Marathon, and although he was healthy come race day, his debut marathon set the issue off again.

Robert de Castella, Steve Moneghetti, Derek Clayton, Pat Carroll and Lee Troop are the only Australians to have cracked the 2:10 barrier.

Troop was the most recent to do so, posting 2:09:58 in the 2004 London Marathon.

Goddard will tackle the London Marathon with Brett Robinson, who’s also hoping to slip under the 2:10 mark for the first time and is even eyeing the Australian record: de Castella’s 2:07:51 set in the Boston Marathon of 1986.

“It’d be tremendous cool (to hitch them),” Goddard said.

“That’s undoubtedly what I need to be.

“I’ve got no doubt I’ll be there at some point in my career, but to do it this early would be the perfect start.”

It’s widespread for long-distance runners to give attention to the monitor, cross-country and shorter street occasions over a few years earlier than making the bounce to the marathon of their 30s.

Similarly to de Castella and Moneghetti, Goddard is bucking the pattern.

“They both had great careers,” Goddard stated.

“When you think of Australian distance athletes, you think Australia’s marathoners are at the top of that.

“I undoubtedly look as much as them loads.

“But at the same time, it’s kind of crazy that no Australian has run that quick for the marathon recently.

“I’d like to get in that ballpark and forge a profession of my very own, as effectively … at this age you are on the lookout for that first form of few breakthroughs to make your mark, after which as soon as you have made your mark you possibly can consolidate a bit.”

Goddard is a cricket tragic, so there’s no surprise he squeezed a cricket analogy into the interview with Wide World of Sports.

“In cricket, for those who’re enjoying first grade and (at) state degree, you are trying to make your debut within the nationwide crew,” he said.

“Once you get your spot you possibly can actually form of forge your profession.

“I’m at the part where you’re looking for that big double hundred for New South Wales that gets you picked for the next Ashes tour.”

The high-energy marathon younger gun is able to go.

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