News and articles from Running Training Plan
Following on from my post about participation in running research at Brighton University.
The race is now run and the final tests have been taken. We were told that the juice supplements some of us were using was in fact beetroot juice (I had the placebo, Cherry Vimto); I’ll report more on that later.
Research on beetroot juice should be of interest to anyone involved in endurance sport.
‘Drinking read more
It’s nice to see some research on the subject of barefoot running.
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Scientific research is hugely beneficial to the advancement read more
There has been a recent study mentioned in the national press about the effect of barefoot running on runners’ joints. As usual the press have been quite selective in their quoting from this source. The study, entitled “The Effect of Running Shoes on Lower read more
The UK newspaper, the Daily Express published an article about barefoot running today. In some ways it was quite comical: the writer starts off by saying, “My first barefoot run is on a freezing cold winter’s day along the icy path that cuts its way through a south London read more
There have been some interesting stories about barefoot running in the British newspapers during the last week.
Ben Fogle, writing in the The Daily Telegraph, explains that despite the recent popularity of the book, ‘Born to Run’, the big running shoe manufacturers remain unconvinced. The article goes on to say that the industry warns that ‘the fad is a campaign by a fringe sector read more
Returned from a few days away. Slightly scaled-down training week and more lessons learned, as detailed below. Also some comments about probably one of the most common running injuries — Runner’s Knee.
Friday 21 August
Just a short run today up a nice little hill near Middlesbrough called Roseberry Topping.
Unfortunately managed to twist an ankle on the way up. Rather painful at the time, but read more