For some people, getting fit can seem like an impossibly high mountain to climb. All those hours to spend in the gym or out on the roads running or cycling; it can just seem too daunting.
Recent research on HIT, or High Intensity Training, has proved that there is such a thing as a shortcut to getting fit. This is great news to anyone who wants to start running, but feels that they are not fit enough. read more
For effective interval training, the paces you run your reps should be determined according to your running ability.
These paces will also vary depending on how long each repetition is, but where do you start?
For example: you know you can run 10k in 45 minutes and want to run an interval session of 10 x 400m, how fast should you run each 400m lap? Using the chart, you will see that an effective read more
…it can be done!
I’m not an expert, but I have managed to combine breastfeeding with running – not literally at the same time obviously – that would just be showing off!! But seriously, I nursed my first son until he was a year old and trained for a marathon at the same time, running what was a PB at the time – 3.30, and I am still feeding my youngest son (10 months read more
……top tips!
The weather forecasters got it right……a very rare occurrence! It started snowing this morning and hasn’t really stopped. My son’s school closed before lunch, and my husband stocked up on milk and bread on the way to collect him – we often get ‘snowed in’ here!
I love snow…….to look at! I don’t mind feeling cold, and read more
…being flexible (and I don’t mean lithe!!)
My scheduled run for Wednesday was an interval session – 6 x 1km with 75 second recoveries – and I had planned to do that at 2pm in the afternoon, just before school pick-up. The littlest person in the house had other ideas! He wanted to nap at 2pm, so I had to reschedule – not an unusual occurence these days!! Now, it gets read more
I’m Jan, a 58 (nearly 59) year old man from Ghent, Belgium. I started running (at least seriously) in 2000, 2 years after my 18 year old son Lieven died from an asthma crisis, and after two years of heavy drinking and smoking. Since then, running was (and fortunately still is) my way of dealing with the hardships of life.
By October 2010, I had totaled nearly 17 000 km of shod running. read more