This comes from www.letsrun.com which is the go-to web-site for running news, results, analysis and more – some really good stuff. Anyway, these three runners should need no introduction (all multiple Olympians) and offered this in a pre-race press conference last week. Yesterday was the American men’s media day at the 2013 NYC Half Marathon
Running form is a popular topic these days as runners increasingly recognise the role it plays in efficiency, injuries and enjoyment of the sport. While running is not often considered as a strongly technique based activity, like perhaps swimming, running technique is a skill nonetheless where there is a variety of ways to execute the
Vitamin D deficiency gets some coverage in the press, so this is good advice from Dr Gabe Mirkin (www.drmirkin.com)…timely for us in the recent sunshine we’ve had!! At the American Academy of Dermatology meeting in Miami (March, 2013), researchers from Sweden reported that six weeks of ultraviolet light on the full body three times a
Wednesday 6th March It was a warm night, but a great night for our group at the final race of the series, including two runners doing their first race in 12-18 months due to long-term injuries…and they each were our fastest guy and girl. Great performances across the board: Men Tim Bryant – 13:19min, 2nd
This is a relly good article from Carrie Barrett, which was published on the very good on-line training diary at www.trainingpeaks.com 1. They Get Real: Don’t let the pros fool you. Achieving racing success is not easy, even though there are some people out there who always seem to make it look so. Successful athletes
This is another article from Alex Hutchinson at Sweat Science. Despite all the evidence to the contrary, running still gets a bad rap. I just want to add a few quick thoughts on a study that Amby Burfoot reported on recently. It’s a new analysis from Paul Williams’ National Runners’ Health Study, published in Medicine
Super Sunset Series, race 1, the Tan It was hot and dusty last night for this race which meant the start time was pushed back by 30mins, but that didn’t deter a lot of people from turning up to have a run. We had a swag of people running in the 4km event in search
This article was written by Amby Burfoot at Runner’s World (www.runnersworld.com) Review of 16,000+ sports-drink studies yields ambiguous conclusions. You’d think that by this time, nearly 50 years after Dr. Robert Cade mixed up a sports drink for the heavy-sweating footballers at the University of Florida (a drink that became Gatorade), we would know most
The following was reported by Amby Burfoot on the Runner’s World web-site. First human study to support popular belief that late-day eating adds pounds. A day before publication of the New England Journal of Medicine’s article on obesity/weight-loss myths, which included one about the lack of data supporting a breakfast-obesity link, the International Journal of
The following is some really good training advice from Coach Jay Johnson (http://www.coachjayjohnson.com) Tomorrow I have practice with Athletics Boulder. One group will be doing repeats – 4 x 1,600m with 400m easy jog. This should be a hard workout, but also a controlled workout. So the question is, how do you know if you
Here’s the first article of the year from Alex Hutchinson at Sweat Science (http://www.runnersworld.com/sweat-science) on a topic which is very relevant for our interval sessions…the final sentence give a good conclusion. A new study tries to answer a longstanding training question about how to recover best. Quick note about a recent study that addresses a
Some of you will have heard me talking about doing short hill sprints as part of our training, motivated my own experience doing them last year. The concept originates from a US coach called Brad Hudson, who published this explanation of them (http://running.competitor.com/2013/01/training/steep-hill-sprints_9050). So now you know what I’m going on about when you’re sent
Peter Reaburn is a PhD physiologist from QLD who runs a web-site called The Masters Athlete (www.mastersathlete.com.au, and book of the same title) which even if you’re not old (like me) is a good source of quality information. This is the first of two articles he recently published. My dad taught me not to sweat
This article was written by Amby Burfoot over at Runner’s World (http://www.runnersworld.com/news)…not that I expect many of us use energy drinks…much… Energy drinks have taken a few hard hits of late. A month ago the FDA published an update linking some drinks and energy boosters to a surprising number of deaths and illnesses. Now an
An interesting article from Alex Hutchinson at Sweat Science (http://www.runnersworld.com/sweat-science) on a topic that is getting a fair amount of media attention in recent times. I’m not a big fan of vitamin pills because, as far as I can tell, virtually none of the pills people take do anything useful. The only pill I take