Our friends over at boobydoo have teamed up with Breast Cancer Haven to help fight Breast Cancer by taking part in a 5K challenge ? To get involved, head on over to their website for more information: https://goo.gl/7CEhWt #ILOVEMYSPORTSBRA
I incorrectly thought that to get your body from A to B required the same amount of energy whether you walked or ran. That’s not quite true. Well, it’s not true. More correctly if you RUN AT ANY SPEED from A to B then you will use up roughly the same amount of calories. Walking…
This looks like rather colourful fun. throwing around lots of coloured cornstarch and running 5k with Victoria Pendleton in the grounds of the rather nice Penshurst Place in Kent. check the press release below if you are interested in any of their other similarly colourful events around the country. Visit www.runordye.co.uk to pre-register for another…
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…
OK there are lots of novelty 5k that are marketed as ‘fun’ events. I’m sure there’s 5000 Santa 5Ks and no doubt the urban obstacle courses and the tough mudder obstacle courses are great too. How about this one though. it’s the RUNORDYE5k. If you have kids it does look like fun. OK washing their/your…
November 2014: Zach Blum finishes in 18:30 for road based 5k World Record 2011: Lucas Bourgoyne is the track record holder for 5k at 18:41.3 Those times are obviously fast for kids and super-well done to both of them. I’m surprised that the ‘record’ is ‘only’ as fast as that though. Several in my peer…
Will doing nothing or another sport help my 5k taper? A study by Joe Houmard in the early 1990s had 3 equivalent groups of runners who were then tapered in a controlled manner, the groups were as follows: Trained as normal Cut volume by c70% but added higher intensity work Cut volume by c70% but…
Below is Mo’s apparent typical training week from ‘training a runner’ (Source, below). You can see he is hitting the miles to boost his aerobic efficiency and technical running skill. At the end of ‘Mo’s Training Week’ there is a video of his form analysed. Of particular interest to many of you will be his…
I was asked to review the KIQPLAN app “Your first 5k”. KIQPLAN make several apps that all pretty much ‘do what they say on the tin’ with names like ‘Goodbye Baby Bump’, ‘Beer Belly Blaster’ and other such titles. At about GBP20.00 they are considerably cheaper than a personal trainer, cheaper too than a bespoke…
For a more detailed look at running relatively fast 5km races then have a look at this post: http://the5krunner.com/2011/08/22/5k-sub-20-minute-5k-running-and-training-plan/ However that post is NOT for everyone. If you are a 25 minute 5ker or slower then you might want to look at and consider the following straightforward plan to get going. It assumes you have…
Here is a first draft of a hopefully intriguingly titled “performance warmup“. Gets faster by warming up? Is that possible? Related articles Janathon Day 26: Duathlon Race Recap Racing Post
If you are anything but a young male then, unless you can already do it, a sub 20 minute 5k is not trivial. “I can do it. It’s easy. When I couldn’t do it; it wasn’t.” How annoying was that last statement! Sorry. But hopefully you take the point I am trying to make. Chances are…
Does what it says on the tin.
Does what it says on the tin.
The BBC did this article about the benefits of starting exercise when older http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25087047. You get all sorts at parkruns. So, why not? Maybe a new 60+ or 70+ runner is going to find a sub20 5k rather difficult but is that really the point? Maybe a new runner might be nervous about coming in last…
The BBC did this article about the benefits of starting exercise when older http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25087047. You get all sorts at parkruns. So, why not? Maybe a new 60+ or 70+ runner is going to find a sub20 5k rather difficult but is that really the point? Maybe a new runner might be nervous about coming in last…
Just when you thought it was safe to go training another abbreviation hits the fan: vVO2. Yep, that’s right. Lowercase V then uppercase V then uppercase O then a 2, ideally the 2 would be in a subscript but it’s Wednesday and my computer won’t do that today. It’s not new either this concept has…
After the wildy successful “How do I get a 5k parkrun PB this saturday” comes the much-awaited “How do I get a 5k parkrun PB next month”. And here it is. OK, it’s a bit of a tongue-in-cheek title and intro but I’ll try to be serious. The point of the PB-this-saturday-post was that you…
You’ve probably been trawling the net or this site for 5k plans. There’s quite a few on this site; some good, some less so. Probably any plan and a certain amount of hard work will get you below 20 minutes but some will do it faster than others because they are better… The best plan…
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…
