GF Run Squad

😲 It’s time to get your training plan sorted!

We will get you over the finish line with our coaching programs and Cairns training squad!

For ALL LEVELS!!

Clink the link below for all the program details! We start in ONE WEEK! ✔️👊🏼👊🏼

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Never skip EGG day! 😝

Happy Easter to everyone! 🐰

Relax and indulge to your heart’s content today 🪺 Just like you won’t lose weight by eating healthy for one day, you won’t gain weight or lose all your gains by eating some chocolate today! 😌

Back on track tomorrow 🙌🏼

M I L E S T O N E 👣
Congratulations .abel on achieving 100 PARK RUNS on Saturday! 🎉

This girl doesn’t often miss a Park Run! And has come leaps and bounds as a runner and an athlete since joining our squad in 2021 👊🏼

Park run #1 - 2015 ⏰ 29.41
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Park run #100 - 2024 ⏰ 24.13

Well done Renee! So proud of you ❤️

Next stop ➡️ 30km

#100

P A R K R U N takeover! 🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏾‍♂️
Well done to our crew who dominated Glenoma yesterday helping to achieve a record number of participants at the event.. 👏🏼

Our athletes were given a little challenge by coaches Josh and Kryssi .. a “predicted” 5km time was assigned to everyone and the goal was to try and beat the time🤩 The crew definitely stepped up and pushed to a new level- and did not disappoint! Some amazing times, lots of PBs and many exceptional performances!
Well done to everyone who attended! What a ‘fun’ morning … (if you call sprinting 5km fun 😝)

Set GOALS and acheive them with FRIENDS! 🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏾‍♂️🤩
Our isn’t just about running. It’s about being surrounded by people who encourage, motivate and inspire you. Who train alongside you instead of against you. Who have the same goals as you and together you strive to achieve things you once never thought possible! Training partners, coffee buddies, and mates 👯‍♀️

If these are the friends you need, come and join us! Let’s achieve BIG THINGS together! 🥳
📩 DM us for more info or visit the link in bio for our full timetable and group coaching packages /

🌟 Meet The Coaches 🌟
is a mum, coach and athlete who is the newest member of the Smurf Endurance Sports Team.
With over 15 years of experience as a PT, strength coach and run coach with her own business, Kryssi has helped over 250 runners get to their finish line is
She builds strong relationships with her athletes and helps them to amazing results. With some of her athletes being with her for up to 10 years, it shows the trust and friendships she develops with her team
Kryssi has spaces available for fully custom 1:1 run programs and standard run programs from 5k to marathon and even ultras, whether local to FNQ or abroad. You will also see her at our Cairns squad sessions.
Find out more about Kryssi, our squads and coaching/ program options at www.smurfandsmurfette.com.au

🌟Meet the Coaches🌟
Head Coach and Director Joshua Duff has helped athletes achieve big goals from sprint tri to Ironman and Ultraman, 5k to marathon, and ultras from 50k to Backyard Ultras, Multi-Day Events and even 200 Milers!
He brings to his coaching role not only his experience as an ultra runner and triathlete, but also 10 years of working in education from teacher to high school principal. And, did you know, he is Queensland's ONLY Endorsed Coach!
Josh (a.k.a. Smurf) has limited spots remaining for fully custom 1:1 programs for runners and triathletes. So get in quick to secure your spot. But you can also work with him via one of our standard run or triathlon programs, or at our Cairns based squad sessions.
Find out more at www.smurfandsmurfette.com.au

W E E K. O N E : Thursday morning S Q U A D
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🍂 Trail session (yellow arrow) with Coach Josh

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👣 Road tempo session (esplanade) with Coach Kryssi
🌞 Humid conditions but what a great start to the day!
✔️Join us ! Our sessions cater for all level of runners!
And your 1st TWO sessions are completely 🆓
PM for details ✨

✨𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐌 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 ✨

So excited to be welcomed to the coaching team!

I will continue coaching all my runners and will be taking new 1:1 athletes and new runners joining our 💙

Specialising in coaching beginners in distance running- from your first 5km to your first half marathon, as well as many years of experience running and coaching the 42.2km marathon distance.

I can’t wait to help a whole new breed of runners through the 2024 season 🎉

📨 DM us for more info or check out the website for all our services and programs ✨ (link in bio)

B I G N E W S ! 🎉

We are super excited to announce that GF RUN SQUAD has joined forces with and will now be an amalgamated training squad!

Our Coach will join the superstar coaching team as 𝐑𝐮𝐧 & 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 and offer 1:1 coaching, squad level programs and facilitate weekly squad sessions.

This partnership not only brings our expertise, knowledge and skills together but now allows to continue to grow and offer a high level of specialised coaching and training in Cairns and abroad.

You can check out everything we have to offer on the website ▶️ https://www.smurfandsmurfette.com.au

We are all so excited for this change and can’t wait to kick off a massive year in 2024!

This girl’s about to run her first marathon.

In honour of her baby boy, Henry.

Most importantly, it was about raising awareness of stillbirth and fundraising to support research.

She’s raised over $13K for the 🤍

Her work is done.

Rina, you should be proud of what you have achieved and how passionate you are to your cause. Little Henry would be proud already 🥰

Now to put the icing on the cake.

12 weeks of training. Nutrition. Mind set.

42.2km.

Letssss GO! 🏃🏻‍♀️🔥

Our summer season comes to an end and just like that it’s ONE WEEK TO GO before we kick off the next training block! 🏃🏻‍♀️ is 12 weeks away!

T R A I N W I T H O U R N E W 2024 S Q U A D !
• customised programs for 5km - 10km - 30km - 50km
• 3 group squad runs a week (Cairns)
• strength & conditioning / recovery
• full support from our team of coaches
• all levels of runners welcome 🙏🏼

📨 Send us a PM and let’s get started!

2 0 2 4 ✨ h a p p y n e w y e a r ✨

Exciting things are happening in the running world this year! We can’t wait for what’s to come… 👀
2024 is going to be huge 💥

Congratulations to our runners who competed in race one of the Clifton Beach 10km Series this morning.

🥇 What a spectacular run by Kylie, finishing 1st female and running a 2 minute PB! 🔥

Thanks for putting on a great run Cairns Dynamic Running 👏🏼

42.2km | • Coach Kryssi taking home the 40-44 age group win at the 2023 Cairns Marathon Festival 🏅

A huge congratulations to our very own Atlas Events Ambassador, Kryssi O'Hare Siplon! Kryssi came first in her age category, and was the fourth woman overall at the 2023 7 Cairns Marathon. We can't wait to have you and your team back next year.

📷 Marathon Photos Live

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𝐖ho doesn’t want a 𝐅aster 5km?! 🤷🏻‍♀️

Join our 6 week program and finish the year with a 2023 PB!

✔️All levels - beginner to experienced
✔️Thursday 5.15am group squad session
✔️Weekly program to follow
✔️6 weeks, starting November 21st
✔️$20/week ~ $110 upfront

Questions or to register-
💻 Send us a FB direct message or
📧 [email protected]

This time last week .. Loop 1 … running into the unknown… not knowing how long you would survive.. 👣🌝🌚

Go Kylie! 💗🖤
Can’t wait to see what this girl does in 2024!

Congratulations Kylie Whitley! First woman over the line in the 2023 7 Cairns Marathon in the 45-49 age bracket category, running 42.2KM in 03:29:30.

📷 Marathon Photos Live

Congratulations to everyone who took part in Smurf's Backyard Ultra this weekend!

For those unfamiliar with a backyard ultra event:
🔁 Run 6.7km every hour, on the hour, for as long as you can.

Well done to our four ladies (our ’marathon’ girls) who all ran an extrodinary number of hours and kilometres!

💗 Kylie - 13 hours - 13 loops - 87.1km
💗 Kryssi - 12 hours - 11 loops - 80.4km
💗 Denise - 8 hours - 8 loops - 53.6km
💗 Jen - 8 hours - 8 loops - 53.6km

The final two men standing completed 33 loops, both pulling the pin together on the 34th.
= 221km.

Thanks Smurf Endurance Sports for bringing this awesome event to Cairns - what an amazing success it was for the second year running.

Lots of beaten up bodies today! But well worth the achievement.

Rest now & then RESET 🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️

Our last classes at GETFIT RESULTS TRAINING 💗🖤 How awesome is this crew?! What a ball we’ve had! 🥳
But we’re not done..
See you all on the other side!
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Adiós

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Meet Kryssi 👋
Our new Head Coach & Studio Manager ⭐️

With a passion for health and fitness, Kryssi has built an incredible career in the fitness industry, operating her own gym/ PT/ running business for over 20 years! She brings a wealth of knowledge and experience as a coach and as a manager. Kryssi is a qualified personal trainer, an accredited sports nutritionist, a Level 2 distance running coach and a qualified strength and conditioning coach. She absolutely loves coaching and cannot wait to help our members achieve their goals 👊

Her passion is running and she just completed her 30th full marathon and smashed her PB by over FOUR minutes! You’ll also see her in the gym every day working harder than anyone. As a Mum of 3 little ones, Kryssi uses training as her relaxing time 🤪

Kryssi has coached, motivated and inspired hundreds of people over the years and has been a trailblazer of the Cairns fitness scene including the following achievements:
- Established the first ever boot camp in Cairns
- Established the first run squad in Cairns
- Opened one of the first PT and Cross-training studios in Cairns well before CrossFit was major discipline.

With years of experience and a wealth of knowledge, we are super excited to see her lead the Fitstop Cairns Community and assist you all with your fitness goals and we cannot wait to have her join our Fitstop Cairns team!
One week to go! 💡

RUN SQUAD ISN’T GOING ANYWHERE! 💗🖤
Get ready for a bigger & better 2024 and beyond ✨

• Summer Squad 23/24
• Training
• Training
• Running holiday - location TBA!
• Individual & online coaching

✨ New sponsors & an new collaborations!

👀 Look out for our updated website and details of our upcoming courses and events coming soon!

A very heart felt Thankyou to every single person who has reached out since yesterday. It’s been a very emotional week and just when I thought I was through the worst of it, I read all of your comments and messages and had an emotional relapse ☺️🥲 To hear from people I had trained so many years ago, to hear first hand of the positive impact I had on so many of your lives, well, it’s completely overwhelming. Whilst I had a lot of tears, I also had a smile on my face knowing/ realising I had made your lives better.

Whilst this decision has been one of the most difficult I’ve faced, at the same time, my heart is completely full ❤️

And just like that, after 20 amazing years, the time has come to end this chapter 🥲

From way back in 2004, I started my time in the fitness industry as an aerobics instructor, and during an 8 year career in the police force, I built my little side business:
💕GETFIT personal training 💕

Moving from Victoria to Cairns, in the days where personal training was only in it’s infancy and group fitness was all about Reebok Step and Les Mills, I saw my little business grow before my eyes! 🌴

🏳️ GETFIT became the first ever bootcamp in Cairns (with over 40 people consistently in a single class!)
🏳️ I was one of the very few personal trainers in Cairns.
🏳️ I started the first run squad - with one year training & writing programs for 70 people in a 12 week training block!
🏳️ And opened one of the first PT studios followed by the first cross-training gym in Cairns (before they were even a thing!) 🦖

20 years on, from running Bootcamps and boxing classes on the esplanade & hockey fields to leasing 6 different gyms spaces- literally hundreds of people have passed through our doors. We have always specialised in not specialising- welcoming every kind of person with all different goals - weight loss, fitness, sports specific, strength, confidence and social.
You have seen us at every local running event, every CrossFit competition and every charity event.

Above everything, we have facilitated lifelong friendships and connections over many years - some of our best friends are the ones we’ve made at GETFIT.

But everything must come to an end.

Running a small business by yourself with a young family, it’s not a walk in the park. It takes its toll. The fitness industry isn’t what it used to be. It’s saturated and highly competitive and it’s difficult to keep up. After so many years giving my business my everything, it’s time now to take a step back and put my family and life balance first.

The week has seen many tears and hugs as I leave an amazing community of people who have supported me and remained loyal to me for years and years. Some from the absolute beginning! Chatting about what being part of GETFIT has meant to one another. And I realise what a massive part it has played for so many. It’s not just about fitness, but it’s the friendships and that sense of belonging.

❤️ To all my clients, past and present, to anyone who has ever trained with me over the past 20 years (lots of you out there!) I want to Thankyou. You have all had a major impact in my life and I’ve honestly loved every single day of it. I never ever wanted to do anything else. This was not work to me, it was my passion.
And my heart is today a little broken.

❤️To my clients who have stayed until the end- who have hung in there over the past six months and supported me through an uncertain time. Your loyalty has meant more than you know and will always be remembered. Thankyou.

❤️And to my trainers, the handful who have been and gone (my brother Chris, Kate, Kelly, Chris & Gary) and to the three amazing people I have standing next to me at present - Heidi, Denise and Ben. I couldn’t have lasted this long without you. Thankyou for treating my business like it was your own. Forever grateful for everything you have done for me.

BUT… as one door closes ~ another one opens!

And this is definitely not the end for me! (And not the end for our fitness family!) The fitness industry is all I know and I can’t wait to start the next chapter.

Watch this space.. 🖤🤍

Kryssi 💗