Theme: Threshold I treat this session as an alternative to the standard 2×20′ session and it…
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Thursday Training Theme: This week’s favourite training session
Theme: Anaerobic Capacity I’m just about to start tapering for my last multisport race of the…
Thursday Training Theme: This week’s favourite training session, Let’s start simple WARMUP
Theme: Warmup As I’ve become more attuned, zen-like, to my body I can feel the difference…
Garmin Coach – Any Good ? Free Adaptive 5K Running Plan
Garmin Coach is getting better. Lots of free plans to help your training including SOME adaptive…
Run with Power – Book by Jim Vance
I started leafing through coach Jim Vance’s book “Run with Power” a couple of months ago…
Ironman Build – The Shape of the Pear
I always thought that pears had quite a nice shape. But when applied to training ‘maybe…
Cycling Analytics – New Update To Software
Cyclinganalytics.com have announced an update to their cycling analytical software with a new training load chart (above,…
My Ironman Journey: A Mouthful of Humble Pie Might Have Been Good For Me
In previous posts I have scoffed a little about ‘Zone 2 training’ which, by now, I…
Sonia Samuels (Olympian) : 5 Tips for running a marathon
In case you need 6 tips, here are the first 5 for running a marathon. Sonia,…
Ironman Training – 200 Hours In The Wrong Zones? Not a good idea.
A lot of the Ironman plans I looked at rely on Training Zones. Either POWER zones…
Garmin Fenix 5 : What is Firstbeat Training Effect 2.0 and Training Status – impact on XERT or GoMore?
Garmin’s Fenix 5 advertises the use of Training Effect 2.0 and will also be including a…
Cyber Monday: Save 15% off most Power Meters and PM-Accessories
International buyers will need to consider import duties for their country. Just enter the COUPON…
Polar Rolls Out Complete Training Load/Recovery Status For Cycling Products
One of Polar’s stand-out features has got better…well at least more widely available. The previous implementation…
What are WKO4, Golden Cheetah, Garmin Connect, SportTracks, Training Peaks?
I’ve re-blogged, below, a description from trainingpeaks.com of the differences between their products (WKO4 and TRAINING PEAKS).…
Mo Farah’s Typical Weekly Training Schedule
Below is Mo’s apparent typical training week from ‘training a runner’ (Source, below). You can see…
5k: Some thoughts on the benefits of swimming to 5k
Here’s my own personal take on whether or not swimming will help your efforts to a…
A Good 5k session today and a sneaky 2.5k + ride last night.
I needed a feel-good session today and for some bizarre reason my plan has 1 minute…
5k parkruns – how good are you?
With 5k running (and especially at parkruns with a wide variation in ability) people seem to…
5k: How much mileage do I need to do, how much do I need to train.
I come from the ‘do as little mileage as possible’ school. Before you say I’m wrong…
Sub 20 minute 5k: how does it feel?
We all want to get that PB down as low as we can. I guess there…
