Stefano Rizzo
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12 × 400m.
Brompton Cemetery.
Before lunch.
Getting out the door took longer than the warm-up.
The mind does that thing where it tries to protect you from something that’s actually fine.
I’m running the for the
Which means alongside the training,
I’m doing the thing I find genuinely uncomfortable: asking people for money.
I don’t have a polished pitch. I just think more people should know what the NAS does, and this is my way of being useful.
Link in bio if you want to be part of it.
I’m 52, ADHD diagnosis few weeks ago.
The timing feels stupid, honestly.
Like being handed the instruction manual after you’ve already built the thing, literally!
The one thing I’ve always known how to do is run intervals. Not long slow distance, repeats.
Hurt for a minute or so, stop, go again.
I thought it was just how I liked to train.
Turns out when your brain never stops, the only way to quiet it is to make the body louder.
(Or maybe I always knew that. Just didn’t have a name for it.)
Training for and raising money for while I figure this out.
The time’s on screen.
That’s the honest part.
01/05/2026
I’ve been running along the Thames since I’m London without knowing why I needed to.
Not only for fitness. Not really. Something else.
A pull I couldn’t name, that made the day feel slightly wrong
when I skipped it.
A few weeks ago I found out I’m (and NOT I “have”) ADHD.
And suddenly the running made a different kind of sense.
Not because running helps with ADHD, that’s what
everyone says, and it’s true, but it’s not the interesting part.
The interesting part is that running and ADHD are the same thing.
Same nervous system.
Same need for the feeling of moving forward before anything else makes sense.
I’ve been self-medicating for decades.
I just called it training.
I’m 52. Training for the Royal Park Half Marathon this autumn. And somewhere between the diagnosis and the race, trying to figure out what it means to understand yourself this late.
More soon.
But first, this.
Bit confused here.
or elite15?
No matter what the emotion is …..mental!
21/03/2026
EMEA Hyrox Champs Day 1.
Volunteered as
Station 2. Sled push. 8 hours.
What I saw:
- Someone racing in a wheelchair.
- A dad and daughter screaming for mum at the sled.
Both incredible.
Also what I saw:
- Sled push technique that I still can’t explain.
- About 70% wearing the new Hyrox shoes.
- Huge muscular athletes completely cooked. At station two. Out of eight.
- Everyone sprinting the first lap like there’s no second one.
Here’s the thing nobody talks about.
- The new world record holder was mid-pack at lap one.
He paced. He prepared. He knew what was coming.
- The shoes didn’t save anyone.
- The muscles didn’t save anyone.
- The Instagram WOD didn’t save anyone. (And btw this is main reason because I’m not posting my WOD)
Question:
What separates finishing strong from surviving?
Answer:
Specific training on the stations.
Structured pacing strategy.
Someone who’s watched your sled push when you’re fresh AND when you’re broken.
Station 2 doesn’t care how strong you look.
It cares how you trained.
Tag someone who needs this before their next Hyrox.
Will be fu@&ing fun!!!
And incredible!!!
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