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…
Either I’m really stupid or there seems to be some global myth going around about weight loss. Some eminent physicist discovered that you can’t just create mass. Mass (weight) and Energy (calories) are tied. E=MC2. (C is the speed of light, incidentally, but don’t think we’ll be running that fast). Essentially if you burn off…
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…
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…
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 500g…
Losing weight does NOT make you THAT much faster – but every little helps
