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Race-day disasters! (Preview)
By Selene Yeager on 03/04/2013 12:38:12
We runners are planners. We pick races, plot strategies and work hard for weeks, months, years, to hit our goals.
Yet too often disaster strikes on race day – we’re hobbled by cramp, gutted by stomach distress or hampered by unforeseen demons. To help you dodge all this, runners have shared their tales of race days gone bad. For the common horror stories, our experts provide invaluable advic...
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Race-day disasters!
By Selene Yeager on 03/04/2013 11:55:33
We runners are planners. We pick races, plot strategies and work hard for weeks, months, years, to hit our goals.
Yet too often disaster strikes on race day – we’re hobbled by cramp, gutted by stomach distress or hampered by unforeseen demons. To help you dodge all this, runners have shared their tales of race days gone bad. For the common horror stories, our experts provide invaluable advic...
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Gear Pick: Finis SwimSense watch
By TW on 26/03/2013 14:10:00
looking to set and track training goals, it’s a great little gadget for all levels.
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Physio Clinic: Marathon taper
By Scott Mitchell on 11/04/2013 11:22:36
With just over a week until VLM, our resident physiotherapist Scott Mitchell shares some marathon taper tricks.
time on stretching.The other temptation during the taper is to squeeze in some extra training. You aren’t going to significantly increase your fitness, but will risk leaving yourself fatigued. The goal now is to reach the start line feeling fresh
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Build your model marathon
By Pete Pfitzinger on 25/03/2013 14:18:30
You’ve done the hard work. Now here’s everything you need, piece by piece, to maximise your performance: from the perfect warm-up, pace and fuel strategies, to how to physically and mentally handle every part of race day.
as possible.Your ideal warm-up depends on your level. For beginners, whose main goal is finishing, no warm-up is necessary. You can warm up during the first couple of miles. For more serious marathoners attempting to run significantly faster than their normal
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Make mine a double
By Steve Magness on 23/04/2013 12:11:50
Running twice a day sounds like a recipe for fatigue and injury. But it can actually aid recovery and boost performance gains, says Steve Magness
-run stretches and exercises – just run!When the goal of doubling is to enhance recovery, split your mileage for the day as evenly as possible. For example, if you had planned for an eight-miler, do two runs of four miles each. By splitting it evenly, you
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I'm a Runner: Susanna Reid
By on 25/02/2013 15:48:33
goal on the horizon to inspire me to get out there. All my training for London had been focused on that date, it didn’t occur to me to roll it over to a different race. I just hung up my trainers.Years went by and suddenly 2012 was approaching. I
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Reload to race
By on 03/04/2013 15:44:10
Conclude your taper with a burst of intensity to sharpen your racing edge
day is about half of your typical number.Reload itIn the final week, for a Sunday race, take a rest day on Wednesday. Over the next three days, reload by running an interval workout at goal pace, an easy run, and an easy run with strides. For your
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Congratulations Team Target 26.2!
By Katie Hiscock on 17/04/2013 14:51:24
On Sunday 7 April, our ASICS Target 26.2 runners took to the boulevards of Paris in the culmination of our spring marathon training project. Their goal? To run their best ever 26.2 miles at the Paris Marathon.Whittled down from over 1
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Big Change: Running & pregnancy
By RW on 13/03/2013 15:26:41
You don’t have to stop running when you become pregnant, but you do need to take things easier.
no evidence that a woman accustomed to taking two-hour runs can’t safely continue during pregnancy; but they also have no proof that it has no detrimental effect.Change your prioritiesYour running goals should change when you become pregnant. Instead
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