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…and I always struggle with those!
Rest days are an important part of any training schedule, but I think it’s quite common for even the most of experienced athletes to feel guilty for ‘taking a day off’. However, the body needs rest days so that it can recover, repair, rebuild, and strengthen. The body needs to adapt to the training you have already done and allow a ‘training
….and darned dogs!
I was looking forward to this morning’s threshold run! A hard session, but not too hard – pleasantly hard, if there is such a thing.
As a rule, I don’t like to run hard sessions first thing, but my day was going to be a busy one and I needed a good hour for this session – 10-15 minutes warm up , 4 x 8 minutes at threshold with 1 minute recoveries, and
The usual terms behind the letters of the mnemonic SMART when referring to goal setting are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time limited. I know there are others, but these are the terms most familiar to me. I was thinking, as I wallowed in a hot bath after my run, that these terms are quite limiting and safe when it comes to setting goals. That’s probably
……a recovery run in more ways than one!!
I was late to bed last night (or rather this morning) and, thanks to the youngest member of the household, early to rise. I felt rather delicate having had a glass or two of pink fizz to celebrate the New Year. It would’ve been easy to have had an unscheduled rest day today, but I thought it was important to start the year as I mean to go
…..particularly good for wet and windy conditions!
Not relishing the thought of getting drenched whilst running 10 plus miles in the wind and rain, I slathered massage oil on my legs before I went out. Baby oil or Vaseline (petroleum jelly) would’ve been just as good. The result – I didn’t feel the cold on my legs, the water simply ran off my skin, and it was really easy
Love it or hate it, cross country running is good for you!! How do I know? Julian Goater tells us so in his book ‘The Art of Running Faster’
I was looking for a bit of inspiration before this morning’s cross country race, and I happened to come across this book belonging to my husband. I only read a paragraph or two, but his words came back to me as I was trudging through
