I’ve written before about the importance of a good carb load before a marathon, including a few tips to help you consume higher than normal amounts of food. In this blog, we’ll cover this area in a little more detail….
Runners will always get injuries. Whether they’re caused by overtraining, the idiosyncrasies of the person’s movement or an accident along the way. Everyone’s returning to running will look different, but what are some common themes and pitfalls? Let’s find out….
Over the years, I’ve coached many runners during marathon training who still want to include Parkrun in their weekly schedule. The question is, how can you include a 3 mile run in marathon training with the least amount of wasted…
There are any number of ways it’s possible to train for a marathon. Whilst they won’t always be optimal, most sessions have some merit to them, and the combination of good quality sessions is what stacks up to good performance…
Nobody’s perfect, myself included, and for all running is a “simple” sport, our performance is hugely influenced by a myriad of factors. Over the distance of a marathon, and with our self-imposed targets to achieve, these factors can cause enormous…
Whilst not at the height of its popularity any more, barefoot running is still something that crops up as a topic of conversation occasionally, with some excellent but also some rather sketchy advice and reasoning for using this particular training…
In a previous blog I explored the topic of how hard, or at what pace, a recovery run should be. Here we’ll delve into how long your recovery runs should be. Recovery run recap I prefer the term easy…
When preparing for a marathon, running speed is probably the last thing on your mind when it comes to session planning with most of the focus on running for longer only, but are you missing a trick by not hitting…
Inevitably we have ebbs and flows of energy and motivation for running, but what can you do to get things back on track? This blog could realistically be far, far longer than it should be so I’m going to…
Whether you’re training for your first marathon or you’re a hardened marathoner, it’s easy to go overboard with what you eat. Here we’ll look at what can so easily happen, the impact it has and how to avoid it. …