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…
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…
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…
The parkrun PB tips for the coming weekend has just been updated. There’s now 60 ways to run faster this Saturday. Some spurious and belief-based others that use a sneaky bit of science. Try all 60 on Saturday and REALLY confuse yourself.
Let no-one say I don’t do great titles! The rest of what I write might be rubbish but at least I start out good! The highs and lows of a great weekend 1. After Saturday’s 12k and subsequent swim, started to empty the washing machine to spot a HRM strap. My heart sank as I’d…
On Monday I had my first trial go of the blackcurrant tablets from @CurranzHealth. On a totally non-scientific basis I was super-impressed. I used the currant tab (90 mins before) alongside caffeine tabs (1hour before) and a beet-it shot (1 hour before) 1. 800m pool PB by 5 seconds. OK I’m not the world’s best…
Feeling a bit tired today. Big weekend of swimming coming up for a PB or two, maybe. Will be dosing up on caffeine, beet-it and OSMO’s in-exercise hydration formula. So makes sense to try out tonight. Am expecting a top-of-the-lane performance rather than a middle of the pack. Let’s see if Mr OSMO can help…
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…
|EVERYTHING| You Can Do To Run Your **5K FASTER** This Weekend – Ideal parkrun preparation.
How to get a 5k PB.
After a summer of Duathlon training and a Bushy Park PB under my belt I thought about 5k goal setting for the rest of the year. I had this bizarre though that I could do 5 consecutive PBs at Deer Park, Wimbledon, Kingston, Richmond Park and Bushy. Culminating with the last PB being my 100th…
