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How to Improve Your Running: Stop Thinking in Training Cycles

How to Improve Your Running: Stop Thinking in Training Cycles

How often do you sign up for a race and set yourself a two, three, four month training plan? You turn up to race day having followed the weekly tempo, speed, long runs (or not), race then recover. You then pick another race, and start all over again. Perhaps you gave...

To Hoka Or Not To Hoka

This post contains affiliate links - this doesn't cost you any extra on your purchase. Find out more here. Just like Vibrams did a few years ago, Hoka's are dividing opinion within the running world. There are the die hard fans, (including the man who ran up to me on...

New Year, New Plan

New Year, New Plan

New year, new you? I used to work on a weight loss platform called New Me, it was an online forum providing recipes, workouts and a diet plan for realistic, healthy weight loss. Good concept, horrible messaging. Why do you need a new you? I bet the old you is pretty...

Do We Really Need a Weekly Rest Day?

Do We Really Need a Weekly Rest Day?

'I think you might have forgotten to schedule a rest day for me?' my text to coach Mary said. The reply came - 'no, that's not a mistake', followed by an email explaining all the reasons behind the technique she's using to make me a faster, stronger runner. THIS is...

Why I’m NOT running the Tokyo Marathon

Waking up at 4am with jet lag, I know I shouldn't check my phone. The blue light will wake me even more and I'm likely to get swallowed into an internet rabbit hole. But I do anyway, looking through Instagram, Facebook stalking and scrolling through my emails when I...

Are the Nike+ Apple Watches actually good for runners? 

Are the Nike+ Apple Watches actually good for runners? 

Asics Kingfisher Top from Zalando  When the apple watch first came out, I saw it adorning many wrists, especially within the tech and fashion worlds. I'm in neither, so thought nothing of it. Until Nike partnered with Apple to bring out the Apple Watch Nike+. Running...

New Year, New Plan

New Year, New Plan

New year, new you? I used to work on a weight loss platform called New Me, it was an online forum providing recipes, workouts and a diet plan for realistic, healthy weight loss. Good concept, horrible messaging. Why do you need a new you? I bet the old you is pretty...

How to Become a Six Star Finisher: Running The World Marathon Majors

How to Become a Six Star Finisher: Running The World Marathon Majors

Ticking all six marathon majors off my bucket list has been a goal of mine for nearly five years, and not only running them all, but completing them before I'm 30. For those not quite as marathon obsessed as I am, the Big Six are; Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, New...

Do We Really Need a Weekly Rest Day?

Do We Really Need a Weekly Rest Day?

'I think you might have forgotten to schedule a rest day for me?' my text to coach Mary said. The reply came - 'no, that's not a mistake', followed by an email explaining all the reasons behind the technique she's using to make me a faster, stronger runner. THIS is...