Have you ever woken up a day or two after a run or workout with your muscles aching more than they did during or immediately after your workout? Welcome to the world of DOMS or Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness. This is where 12-24 hours after your exercise your muscles feel sore and achey and is …
Fartlek running. Not everyone likes doing it, not everyone knows how to do it, but fartlek running is one of the easiest ways for all runners to improve. Why? Because fartlek running works on both your aerobic and your lactate endurance. It helps you run longer and by building your lactate endurance helps you to …
What should you eat if you are running in the morning? Should you eat anything at all? This is a question I get asked a lot and the answer I often give is it depends! It depends on How long you are running for Are you running easy or doing a hard speed session How …
Like many of my runners I’ve been training for a race that was postponed and now is cancelled. When I heard about this, for a second I wondered if I should carry on with my training programme – after all I no longer have a race! But that thought only lasted a minute before I …
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If you have had a break from running it can be hard to get the motivation to get out there again, even though we know we will enjoy it when we do. Sometimes we worry about not being as good as we were, or as fast as we were. Sometimes it’s the fear of being …