Sarah Penny – Overcoming Adversity

Following the second repair, Sarah made excellent progress with her rehab as well as her goals, successfully attending F45 classes in January of 2021. From this point Sarah started setting her eyes on her next goal – Running.

Running was something Sarah previously enjoyed doing, however, the last time Sarah had run, she not only experienced significant pain, but also was running on a fractured leg. Nonetheless, in March of 2021, Sarah looked into the eye’s of adversity, and set herself the big hairy audacious goal of running her first ever 10km with the PEAK team at the Gold Coast Running Festival. Coincidentally enough, the event fell exactly on the two-year anniversary of her ski accident.

Sarah worked closely with Physio Coach Chez to come up with a plan on how to cross the finish line successfully. This plan was not without its obstacles. Sarah suffered bouts of low and mid back pain as well as persistent knee pain impacting her return to running journey.

At PEAK one of our values is ‘Choose Your Pain’, which involves choosing the pain of discipline over dysfunction. Over the period of several months approaching the event, Sarah has put her best foot forward and remained diligent with her rehab. She has taken full advantage of PEAK’s antigravity treadmill to slowly build up mileage, while implementing her rehab exercises within her F45 classes to improve the load capacity of her leg.

Unfortunately, the Running Festival was cancelled due to a lockdown, however, Sarah was not shaken. She kicked on her runners and completed her first ever 10km run with her son Finn on her “Break-aversary”!

Sarah personifies resilience, and demonstrates what it means to Dream Big.

Congratulations Sarah on your phenomenal achievement!!