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 Of particular interest to many of you will be his relatively sparing use of quality speedwork. WHEN he does such speedwork he aims to be…