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Our running club’s monthly time trial is just under 5 miles on undulating roads. Runners who take part will typically warm up for 1 mile maximum, most do no more than half that distance and many will step out of the car almost straight on to the start line. This, despite an awareness of the importance of warming up.
I remember a few years ago doing an experiment with some runners regarding
Preparing the body and mind for training is important, but if you want to get the best out of yourself for racing then you should be absolutely clear about what you do in your warm up and why you are doing it.
If — like countless other runners — your warm up consists of a few minutes jogging, maybe some static stretches, then some fast strides then perhaps you should take a look at this excellent
Maybe it’s time for some of us to question our ideas about running. Perhaps some of those basic rules or guidelines that we follow, or are advised to follow by others, are not quite right for us.
In it’s recent, thought provoking article: Breaking all
The long run, such a vital part of marathon training. It is the one training session that prepares us most effectively for the challenges that we’ll face on race day. Most coaches will say that the long run is the most important training session for marathon preparation.
But, how do we prepare for the long run?
Obviously, we want want to complete it. So, just like marathon we are training
There is plenty of ‘advice’, about barefoot running now. Whilst it is easy to find, it is very hard to sort out the good from the bad, and hence, what is a sensible approach to barefoot running. A very large portion of the directives fail in one vital aspect: the fact that we are all different.
Our survey is clearly telling us that there is a huge variation in the success or otherwise
In our previous article, we looked at how age affects running speed, now we turn to the why: what are the factors that affect our aerobic fitness and hence our endurance running performance?
Anyone who runs and is beyond a certain age will be very conscious of their decreasing running speed performance.
It is an ongoing battle to keep trying to post race times that we consider satisfactory.