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Intermediate 5k Running Programme
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 [...]
First Time Marathoners Read On
My work brings me into contact with lots of runners so I get a good idea of what’s on the horizon regarding future races. A good proportion of the people I have talked to are working towards their first marathon next year with London, Edinburgh and Paris high on the agenda for April/May time. It [...]
Exercises- what should I do?
The first things that need to be understood are the names used by instructors. One of any exercise eg one press up, is called a repetition. A multiple of an exercise eg 12 press ups, is called a set. So if you are instructed to do one set of 12 repetitions it would look like [...]
The Problems of Chest Hair for Male Runners: De-Fuzzing
About a month ago I decided to enter this years Great North run and raise money for Candlelighters. This meant altering my mind set from leisurely jogging to a more constructive training programme, one that would get me round the half marathon in a reasonable time. I knew I would have to step up my [...]
The Positive Cycle
I recently wrote an article about nature’s high. This was about how exercise can secrete feel-good chemistry in your body with even mild exercise. This is part of achieving what I have called “the positive cycle”. When training people and giving advice about exercise I believe it is a good method to give imagery to [...]
Sri Chinmoy 2 Mile Race 24th June 2009: Meadows, Edinburgh
The Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team organise races on the Meadows in Edinburgh most weeks. The races usually range from 1 mile to 10km and consist of laps of the park along footpaths. So on June 24th 2009, Rob and I trundled down to the park, where everyone was playing tennis, to take part in a [...]
Money in the Bank
I have trained and advised people regarding their running for some time now. For people looking to start running for the first time or for those who have just started there are always lots of questions and one of the most fundamental to crop up is “How do I train?” This may seem simplistic but [...]
There is no such thing as a junk mile
I have been an avid reader of running magazines and articles for a long time and have seen trends and fashions come and go and even be re born. For a while now the phrase “junk miles” has cropped up now and again, inferring that some miles that are run are in fact useless miles. [...]
Paula Radcliffe’s Top Training Tunes
During an interview with The Guardian, Paula Radcliffe recently listed her favourite motivational training tunes. We’ve included the video of Freemasons “Uninvited” on the left, but there’s a pretty good remix of Alphabeat’s “Fascination” available here. Paula Radcliffe is one of the UK’s finest middle and long-distance athlete and has held several world records and [...]
