Want to see someone run 10k in under 28 minutes? This could be it. The annual “Night of the 10k PBs’ There are lots of top-level European guys competing. It is a genuinely unusual and fun evening eg last year the racers ran through some sort of covered tunnel. anyway. Slightly quirky. But high quality…
I went to support a fellow runner in the Richmond running Festival 2016 10k. It starts in Kew Gardens (Free Entry to spectators!!) and finishes in Old Deer Park near Richmond Town Centre…it’s where one of the parkruns are. the route winds through Kew Gardens (very scenic) and down the Thames Towpath (very scenic). Similarly…
Richmond Marathon: September 18th, 2016 (info) Should I or shouldn’t I? The UK’s most picturesque City-marathon is getting closer and I still have to enter. I decided I wasn’t going to do it because of scheduling reasons. As I sit here a bit ill, it seems like a wise choice. But no doubt I will…
Richmond Marathon: September 18th, 2016 (info) New to the Richmond Running Festival this year is the inaugural MARATHON. Apparently there are only 1,500 places (no I’m not doing the race). But I do know the area reasonably well. This must surely be the prettiest Marathon route in the UK. Forget sightseeing in SW London…just do the…
Beer, cheer and Jo Pavey. although possibly not in that order. This is a Highgate Harriers hosted qualifier for Rio (yep the real Olympics Rio). It goes something like: Turn up Buy some beer (if not racing) Stand in lane 3 Cheer a lot as lots of soon-to-be-famous Olympians hurtle around the track. After cheering…
I needed a feel-good session today and for some bizarre reason my plan has 1 minute intervals with 2 min recovery. That’s a lot of speed and a lot of recovery, perhaps too much. Anyway I went faster than ever sneaking in quite a few minutes at 3 min/km pace… awesome. I just have to…
You’ve probably been looking for a 5k training plan. There’s lots out there and a few on this site. You’re not an elite runner by a long chalk but you’d like to improve your 5k times at your local parkrun. Thing is, all those plans take up so much time and have you running many…
Wow! 4th Feb 2012 will have Mark Spitz and Ed Moses running the Bushy Park parkrun 5k ‘race’ – that is if they bring their trainers. They are both about 60ish now and so if you come along to the Bushy Park parkrun you might finally have a chance of beating them! Well I’m sure…
Wow! 4th Feb 2012 will have Mark Spitz and Ed Moses running the Bushy Park parkrun 5k ‘race’ – that is if they bring their trainers. They are both about 60ish now and so if you come along to the Bushy Park parkrun you might finally have a chance of beating them! Well I’m sure…
We all want to get that PB down as low as we can. I guess there comes a point though where nature takes over and that PB will never be possible. But then you can just look at your age graded score instead! So there’s always room for improvement by some means. Even some 60…
How long will it take me to do 5k in less than 20 minutes? 5k runners often have unrealistic expectations about how quickly they can improve. When you start out the improvement is dramatic. But the improvement slows quickly and the training effort required to improve increases. It’s really a statement of the fairly obvious…
Yes. I would definately enter I represented GB in Age Group Duathlon and genuinely was worried that I may well have come last. As it turned out I wasn’t. There’s always someone somewhere that will be slower than you. You just have to hope they are in the same race!! But really who cares? Think…
Something to bear in mind. As you exercise you use the glycogen stored in your muscles (and liver to a lesser extent), with a bit of luck you might also burn some fat. After 30 minutes of doing whatever you do you will be WEAKER than when you started out. In itself exercise is bad…
I’ve always known I sweat quite a bit and generally attribute that to trying hard. It’s natural right? I’ve also seen that sweat produced in a gym and thought, “Well it’s quite a bit, but if I bottled it all up it probably wouldn’t be that much.” I’ve sort of lived by that mantra for…
I’ve always known I sweat quite a bit and generally attribute that to trying hard. It’s natural right? I’ve also seen that sweat produced in a gym and thought, “Well it’s quite a bit, but if I bottled it all up it probably wouldn’t be that much.” I’ve sort of lived by that mantra for…
This post is for 5k runners who are relative beginners and can run 5k in less than 35-40 minutes and who can run for 60 continuous minutes if they wanted to. Typically you may have previously been focusing on getting miles under your belt but have not found that you are getting faster 5k times…
Well I got my first gold medal today, how very exciting. It certainly beats my only ever previous prize of a pair of socks for coming AG second, again in a 10K. I think I may have won an Age Group 5k with Parkrun once but that probably only had 12 people turn up on…
If you run a 5k parkrun each week then you are not training ‘properly’ to improve. In the worst case you will probably not be getting enough benefit from your other restricted number of sessions to improve; so all you will be doing on Saturday is practicing at your current pace. You will get VERY…
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