I love running. Training hasn't been ace this week but my enjoyment of running this week has been sky-high this weekend. On Saturday I was doing the Pride 10k with some of my runners. Five of them were running it as their first ever 10K having started in my beginners group 19 weeks ago and [...]
Last week I had a request to write about strength training. Because we all know that strength training is the way to avoid injury right? Well, not always. I've been doing some strength training twice a week for a while now. I had a break after Edinburgh but built back up again as my miles [...]
It wasn't my intention to write these updates every week, but I had a lot of nice messages from some of you, and (more selfishly) I'm finding writing down how training has gone really useful. When I coach my runners, setting the training is only part of the job. The other is listening to their [...]
Sometimes it takes an outsider to see where things are going wrong and to offer a solution. And sometimes, just explaining what the problem is out loud can help you start to make sense of it. Together with my ace friend Liz Goodchild, we're going to help you with your training and motivation problems. If [...]
This isn't my first rodeo. I've trained for races before. I've picked a goal, set out a plan and started training. And yet it always comes as a surprise when it starts to feel hard, and then the doubts set in. Pre 10 miler - didn't want to go This week I was [...]
If you follow me on Strava, you already knows the juicy details of last week's running. But there's other stuff that I don't log on there, like strength training and miles on the bike. So here's a rundown of last week's activities. Most weeks will follow a similar structure, just the miles and paces will [...]
I'm not a huge cycling fan, I only really watch the big events, but I do like watching the daily highlights of the Tour de France. This year it made me think a few things about running, and that was before Chris Froom ran 400m up a hill in cleats. So here they are... You [...]
When people sign up for my beginners' running group I send them an email with some FAQs in it. And one of those is about what kit they'll need. Contrary to what most magazines will say, I tell them not to bother getting any new kit, just to turn up in what they have and [...]
The weeks since I got back from holiday seem to have flown by in a blur of training plans and rainy runs. In fact I think one week I wrote more training plans that I ran miles - a combination of sensible marathon recovery and bad weather coinciding with a lot of runners getting their [...]
In this podcast, I speak to Marina Ranger who is about to run 500k across Holland with her running buddy Lucja Leonard. A tough challenge for even the best of running pals. Then in the second half, I catch up with a few of my run buddies in the pub where we chat about the [...]
