70 tips for a parkrun 5k PB next weekend. I started this list of tips well over 8 years ago and it snowballed from a top 10 tips to a top 70 tips and is continually updated and I’m refreshing and resharing it here for a new audience. It’s geared towards parkrun which is a…
It’s always interesting to hear how fellow athletes train. It puts your efforts into perspective and also motivates you toward better outcomes. A while back I found Mo Farah’s typical training week hidden away on the net. You never know if these sources are really what the athletes adhere to, especially in the likely-to-be-secretive training…
Polar have employed someone to start creating Infographics. Not a bad thing. We all love a good picture sometimes if we are too lazy to read. I’m not sure of the data below. I’m definately a faster runner than the only Polish person in my tri club. Sample size of 1…must be true. We all…
This is a thought-provoking image from Baron Biosys’s blog post from today (they make xert). I like pretty images. For those of us learning the Friel Bible off by heart we might look at the FTP-based zones and nod sagely whilst musing to those friends who will listen, “Ah yes, the lesser-spotted sweetspot, I know…
Garmin’s recent Running Power app/data field threw a bit of a curve ball…it included WIND in the calculation. STRYD and RunScribe don’t do that. Well, at least not yet. STRYD apparently have had a plan to include it for a while. Let’s put to one side that Garmin are using a dated, offline weather forecast…
I started leafing through coach Jim Vance’s book “Run with Power” a couple of months ago and never quite found the time to settle down to read it all through properly. I seem to spend WAY more time writing than reading and finding a couple of free hours is always tricky with ‘the day job’.…
Mike has a parkrun Age Graded PB at just under 95% (15:44/5km)
I suspect my regular reader has little interest in the 5k- and duathlon-plans found on this site and the duathlon training I also undertake. However I’ve added a sneaky little feature to “the” 5k plan which indicates the age graded difficulty of 30 second incremental improvements to your 5k time. I’d been meaning to do…
This one just took the biscuit. Then crunched it up and threw it back at me. A Day At The Testing Track – the 3x 5krunner There’s normally one device that plays ball. Actually normally two and a half. But c’mon. None of them playing ball. Really! This run was supposed to be either the…
As Rotterdam’s ITU Final finishes the season for the Age Grouper triathletes, I await the tales of potential woe from the bike course. The pro course on Saturday, which I imagine was a similar route to the AG route, looked technically demanding in the wet as I watched it live on the BBC. Of course it’s great to…
Apart from sounding very silly, FARTLEK just doesn’t sit right in my mind. I have this vision of Norwegians running at a certain speed to the nearest lamp post and then at another speed up a hill and then at some other UNpre-defined speed over the next but one pedestrian crossing. That’s not me. Maybe…
The music lovers and more senior athletes amongst you will recognise the oblique reference in the title to Bat out of Hell. If neither the title nor that reference mean anything to you then, don’t worry, you’re almost certainly faster/younger than me 😉 After the running injury debacle a couple of months ago, things in…
It seems that neither my body nor Garmin are infallible. No surprise there, really. My Ironman training has brought new and yet more wonderful ways of me finding how to injure myself. I’m relatively cautious when it comes to placing myself in physical danger these days … except when it comes to adding yet another…
In previous posts I have scoffed a little about ‘Zone 2 training’ which, by now, I have become quite accustomed to. I sort-of noticed the increasing volume as the weeks went by but that was all fine as I was secretly enjoying running/cycling a long way and exploring new bits of my neighbouring areas that…
In case you need 6 tips, here are the first 5 for running a marathon. Sonia, based at Loughborough, did 2:32.
You might find these 2 infographics interesting. I can’t in any way vouch for the voracity of either. I’ve always found that training helps too. But it’s quite nice to get all the info in one place in a pretty picture.
I just had this post-Autumn race panic. You know, in autumn when you fill the next year’s diary full of races and then forget about them. January arrives and you realise you have a race in a couple of weeks rather than at some nebulous point ‘next year’. That was my panic. For some reason…
Lots of announcements today of new stuff from TomTom. Let’s start with the SPARK 3 / RUNNER 3. The previous version in the UK was the similarly-looking RUNNER 2 which itself followed the UK’s original RUNNER product. The RUNNER 2 was released in the US as the SPARK (Sept 2015). To cut a long story…
A couple of days ago I got a press release from the STRYD company who are releasing a new Stryd device (officially announced today 24Aug). Rather than the original HRM version (STRYD Pioneer) this one is a tiny wearable power meter that clips on your shoe and introduces some new efficiency/form metrics which, possibly, might…
I’ve used the HRM-TRI on an off in the pool over the winter and it has been generally VERY good. The only issue really there was the need to do a 5/6m push off rather than anything more strenuous which would cause the strap to move. Apart from that VERY minor issue I’ve been a happy…
