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Sam Lutze Adventure Physio

Sam Lutze is an Adelaide-based physiotherapist on a journey to deeper connection, wisdom and wonderment.

His clinical practice seeks not to simply 'alleviate pain' but to ignite greater PLEASURE in the play of life!

18/09/2024

Super keen for the next installment of the Total Recon Adventure Race!
It's so good to have quality adventure racing here in SA 💪🏼 Thank you Murraylands Multisports Inc 🙌🏼

27/06/2023

I will be leading another Adventure Seekers event with Human.Kind Studios!

We will be exploring another hidden gem of South Australia - Monarto Safari Park & Kinchina Conservation Park, by joining the Federation Ultra Trail.

There are 55km, 24km & 10km individual options, but what we'd really love is to enter 4-person Relay teams. It's a really cool, team-oriented format perfect for people keen for good company and supporting one-another tackle the challenge.

The generous cut-off times means that this event is open to running OR walking.

DM me for more details, or check out the race page (google Federation Ultra Trail).

I'm also offering training runs and can design personal training programs to get you to the start line with confidence.

Get involved, it's going to be awesome!

13/05/2023

Have you ever tried Rogaining?

I'm organising a crew of adventure seekers from the Human.Kind Studios community & anyone else keen, to join an 8 or 15-hour event in the Southern Flinders Ranges organised by SA Rogaining Association.

The event will run over 3rd-4th JUNE and regular-price ($85) entries close this Wed (17th May).

Learn how to navigate using a map & compass, camp under the stars and safely expand your comfort zone all while exploring the outdoors.

DM me for more details including training, carpooling and gear.

It's going to be awesome!

02/04/2023

This weekend was the first time I’ve trained since Godzone.

It’s been 4 weeks.

This is massive coming off of 9 months of daily training.

Initially I was managing ongoing fatigue, then the huge backlog of home duties I’d left to “after the race”, then a weird sense of needing the ‘right time’ to start again because it had been so long!

In the end I listened to my body say “enough is enough, we’re doing this now” and after 2 runs, a paddle and a ride this weekend, I now feel back on the horse.

God it feels good, but man it’s been a real lesson on how challenging the post-race and post-goal phase is.

Motivation is precious and fragile but for me right now, it’s back!

25/03/2023

Day 8 and beyond: integration

The integration phase is rarely address in story telling.

So you conquered a mountain?
And then what?

Well this was actually (and continues to be) a big part of our Godzone planning and experience - landing the plane and bringing home the gold.

My nervous system took a good couple weeks to process what happened on days 4 and 5. Extremely vivid dreams, waking yelling out to Ben, Greg or Brenda, searching my bed for gear, even walking out the front door thinking the streetlights were the team’s headlamps!
Hectic.

On one occasion back in Adelaide, in the dead of night as I scrambled about the bedroom, Shannen tried to convince me that I was home and I eventually came to partially accept this reality. I went to the toilet, but on my way back to bed, still made sure to find my headlamp “in case I need it”.

A post traumatic stress response for sure.

Add on top of this, the post-race blues. An intense come-down from 7 days of massive adrenaline, cortisol and dopamine highs.

Luckily a) I was expecting the lows and had a plan for accepting and navigating this stage going into Godzone and b) I had two teammates who are life coaches and mens rites of passage facilitators!

As a full team, over daily (in NZ) and then weekly (zoom) sessions, we deeply shared our personal experiences of the race and how we were going to channel our lessons and learnings into other outlets in life - business, relationships, family, community, work and other physical pursuits.

From this integration process, I feel that shifted from coming home with the ‘story’ - “I left part of my soul on that mountain” to “I carry the power of that mountain in my soul”.

This simple reframe holds life-changing potential.

I won’t list the ways in which I will channel this power into physical manifestations.
All I’ll say is…

Watch this space.

23/03/2023

Day 7: Kayak, bike, run

Photo credit: .socci

So we’ve made it to the final day, just Greg and I. A sort of celebration for the survivors!

A couple hours sleep in the car were enough and we were up prepping our paddle gear.

I was brought to my haunches several times that morning overcome with emotion by the thought of the race being over and the thought of seeing Shannen and Maya again. Both felt overwhelming.

Such is the mindset of an adventure racer.

When we did hit the river, I was very quickly in the present moment again. Whitewater kayaking has that effect.

Greg and I were seamless during that stage. 67km, 8 hours of synchronicity. Even when the water slowed and terrain was mind numbingly boring - we still remained strong and present. Greg’s singing helped 😆

At the TA our crew bought pizza’s, which was incredible, but we started the next bike leg weighed down by about a kilo of dough and cheese each!

Luckily it was flat and short.

Just before sunset we started off on our final leg - no complex navi to worry about, just cross a river and follow the beach to town.

Greg and I jogged down the beach with an extraordinary sunset - like a volcanic eruption, directly above the lights of the finish line. Unfortunately, Ben still had the GoPro so no photos but this sky will be etched in my memory for a long long time.

At the final checkpoint we met up with Ben and Brenda to walk the final km together.

We crossed the finish line as one which was a special moment after everything that had transpired in Godzone.

It was beautiful and I was full of gratitude for our support from home and for the experience of the last 7 days. But it was also surreal. I wasn’t relieved or elated, just grateful and proud of our team’s effort, growth and resilience.

After a beer, pie and chat with the other teams and race organisers we go to our Airbnb for a shower and bed.

Onto the next task - integration…

21/03/2023

Day 6: Bike

We decided to spend the night in TA to settle our rattled nervous systems. Brenda’s race was over but we were keen to start afresh with the 3 of us at first light.

We really hit our straps that morning - riding dirt roads, through a pine forest and eventually to sealed roads and a town.

We took a small detour to the local bakery and totally indulged in the pastries.
Back on the road and we were flying! Vibes high and kilometres tumbling.

Back on gravel roads and we hit a particularly steep downhill which became very sketchy. I was slipping and sliding at maybe 50-60km/h before steadying myself. After this scare I stopped at the bottom to wait for Ben.
I waited…
And waited…
And then I hear a yell from up the road. “SAM!!”

After catching Greg, we turn around to search for Ben in a panic. We were fearing he’d gone over the embankment, but found him clutching his shoulder just over the crest of the road.

Medic Sam & ‘2 pack’ stepping up again.
I strapped up the shoulder, but had zero expectation that Ben would be able to ride. Turns out he had a crack in his elbow and ligament tear in his shoulder.

Astonishingly to me, Ben managed to slowly continue for a km or two before the derailleur on his bike snapped. The bike was now unrideable

With nothing to lose and Ben in classically high spirits, we decided to see how far we could go. We put Ben on my bike while Greg and I took turns towing (via bungee cable) and scootering Ben’s bike.

This continued for 40km on sealed roads, steep hills, farmland corrugated quad bike trails, paddocks and across rivers.
God this must’ve been painful for Ben.

We arrive in TA past midnight, 5+ hours later than expected. More tales to tell and another teammate’s race over.

The news in broken to Greg and I that we can’t do the next hike as a duo and instead will be skipped to the final paddle stage. Dejected but grateful to be continuing. We pack in the car and move on.

One day to go…

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