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‘Don’t bother going to your race unless you have dragged your body to the last inch of survival in your training runs.’
Benjamin Limo, 5000m World Champion 2005.
The words come from Toby Tanser’s excellent book on Kenyan running: More Fire!
If our hardest runs are our races, then maybe we should be re-evaluating our training; can we really expect optimum race performances if
One of the joys of running is being able to eat almost what you want; it’s what makes running such a great activity for those who don’t want to worry about looking after their body shape or weight.
But it’s not true for everyone. There are still plenty of people who run — and run quite a lot — yet still battle with weight control. Whilst running is great for tipping that all-important
The Running Training Plan Spice schedules are for those who want to explore what it’s like to race, rather than just complete a distance. 
They are mild introductions to running at different paces and training in a more structured and considered way. The Spice training plans are ideally suited to those runners who have run their first 5k, 10k or half marathon and want to move on to improving
What a fantastic night that was: the Olympic 10,000m final in London.
For us Brits it was all about Mo Farah, but for runners in general there was an even more important statement made by the runner in 2nd place, the American, Galen Rupp.
For a very long time it’s been suggested that unless you were born and bred in Kenya or Ethiopia you’d be starting with a massive disadvantage in a
Jay Dicharry is the lab director at the Speed Clinic and Motion Analysis Lab at the University of Virginia. He has extensive research experience in the analysis of running biomechanics and form. In the video below he describes how to check and mobilise the feet in preparation for running in more minimal shoes.
This is obviously a hot topic and many runners are beginning to question their ideas of
How do you feel at the end of a race? “If I am still standing at the end of the race, hit me with a board and knock me down, because that means I didn’t run hard enough“, so said the great Welsh runner and former world marathon record holder, Steve Jones.
Obviously, the idea of a race is to try as hard as we can, and if we do this to the optimum, we’ll have nothing left to give