Training for a marathon can take its toll on your body. Pounding the pavements for mile after mile, often stepping up your distance quite considerably on a weekly basis from what you trained before – it all adds up. From personal experience, I’ve learned it’s far better to address any… View Post
The CrossFit Open means different things to different people. For the top 0.5-1%, it means the chance to progress to Regional competition. For even fewer, it’s the fun first brick in the road to the games. But for most, it’s a chance to put your training (no matter how far… View Post
I’m doing something exciting this year. I’m doing every single UK and Ireland Spartan Race! As in, every location, every distance. I’m going to do them all. Well, assuming I don’t get absolutely annihilated and have to skip some! Now I’ve done OCR races before – I’ve crawled through mud… View Post
Week three of training kicked off with a day and a half sick leave from work meaning ZERO training until Wednesday and a fair amount of making up to do. But, the decision to ditch the National Running Show so I could go along to other social events meant I… View Post
As my marathon training gets into full swing and I’ve started to plan ahead for my long runs, I’ve realised I have 9 more weekends of running, and 4 half marathons, before the London Marathon weekend hits. Despite being far from an experienced marathon runner (I’ve only run one before,… View Post
So, the second week of training… I definitely didn’t run as much this week as I’d planned to… but with a mid-week accidental PB and a CrossFit competition at the end of the week it was probably good to have a bit of a quieter week of running. I haven’t… View Post
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