Steve Haywood Health & Fitness

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We always get lots of visits to the website from people looking for fitness tips and running tips, particularly beginners to the sport of running. And that’s great, because one of our main aims is to help people get into running, as well as to improve and maintain their running – and all-round fitness. If [...]

Advanced too hard? Try the intermediate 5K training plan by clicking here. Well done on improving your 5k time after following the intermediate running programme. You have now been training for around 6 months and running should be a natural part of your life but hopefully still enjoyable. To satisfy that competitive itch it’s now [...]

Intermediate too advanced? See the beginners programme by clicking here. Congratulations on completing your your first 5k race with the beginners programme put together by you for you. This means that  you have been training for around 3 months and your body and mind are adapting to your new lifestyle. I very much hope you [...]

There is a lot of information in books and on line about what to do and how to do it if you are one of the many people wanting to start running for the first time, or making a return after a long break with a view to a race. It can be bewildering, with [...]

These are the races that have been – add your reviews and comments about them in the box below: Wednesday 4 June: 7pm SPENCER’S DASH (3.7 mile road race) (race 3 of 6) Spencers Arms, Barugh Green, Barnsley. Click here for more details. Thursday 5 June: 7.15pm BOWDEN 5K Race 3 in the Cheshire Grand [...]