Of course a controversial title. I’m watching the Women’s Olympic Marathon (London 2012) and they’ve just gone through the 5km mark in 17:20. And Brendan Foster says they’re running at ‘not a quick pace’. So the next time you’re commenting on others’ peformances remember that. On that token I wish I was a ‘not great’…
I’d generally politely suggest the abstinence taper for most of us most of the time. IE do nothing for 2-3 days before the race. 2 days for the youngsters and 3 if you are less inclined to recover more quickly. I’d say that this would be a parkrun-friendly taper. For the week or so before…
People will often use barefoot running (which involves normally wearing minimally protective shoes) and forefoot running synonymously. Forefoot running means essentially landing on your toes first. <Here> is a link to [Proprioception-Making-Sense-of-Barefoot-Running] an introduction to this topic in more detail, written by a “barefoot shoe” manufacturer. I have tried such shoes on a treadmill and…
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…
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…
Today wasn’t one of my most glorious performances. I managed a sneaky PB in around October last year. I’ve been training reasonably well since then. Certainly enough to have improved. Yet today I knew that I had only managed a long run 6 days previously. And before that I’d been focusing on building up my…
You’ve run a parkrun and your legs hurt. Naturally you want sympathy. But the response you will get will range from “Didums” to “Oh my gosh are you OK? Shin splints can be really serious, you should stop running for a while and go and see the doctor.” I don’t want to trivialise a bit…
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…
As it says…tips and tricks to reduce bike time in Duathlons (triathlons)
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…
|EVERYTHING| You Can Do To Run Your **5K FASTER** This Weekend – Ideal parkrun preparation.
How to get a 5k PB.
Blimey, someone really asked this question. No, no, no! Do not do it. Have a beer …. or two. But do not run the day before…at all. I mean really don’t run. It will do you absolutely no good at all as your body takes about 2 weeks to gain the physical benefit from exercise.…
A: Yes ! I used to think that this was a ridiculous question. But I saw it the wrong way. My view was how on earth could wearing a pair of shoes that are, say, 300g lighter make any material difference? But that was not the point. Sure, if you wear a backpack with a…
