Introducing our new weekly gear blog, packed with RW Gear Editor Kerry McCarthy's favourite running kit. We'll be updating the blog every Friday - just in time for a spot of weekend retail therapy on the RW Store!OMM Classic 25 (£60)Kerry says
Apologies for not posting another blog sooner. Injuries, slower pace and thus more time on my feet running (shuffling) has meant less time for doing this sort of thing. Here’s a summary of days 3-6:Day three: Barnsley to ChesterfieldHideous. The Gods of ice and rain battled it ou...
to Barnsley. You can find out more about the project at the12in12.com/hope-tour and follow Kerry on Twitter at @RWKerry.Our day in three wordsFrom the runners:Matt: ‘Cold. Relaxing. Done.’Kerry: ‘Nutrition strategy needed.’Sarah: ‘Glad we’ve started
and your mind focused on the prize. But nothing worth doing is ever easy and all that.Day three tomorrow: Barnsley to Chesterfield.Our day in three words:RunnersMatt - 'Found my nuts.'Kerry - 'Sob-inducing quads.'Sarah - 'Hills fog hills
If you've ever been to a gym class and done the cool down stretching afterwards you may already be familiar with the Bhujingasana, which is Sanskrit for Cobra pose. As with all the Bikram poses it has multiple benefits, including relieving back pain, combating slipped or herniate...
If there's one pose that every single beginner fancies their chances at mastering with little effort it's Savasana.Sanskrit for 'Death Pose', it essentially involves, um, playing dead essentially. It's the halfway point of the 26 poses and signals the change over from the standin...
If you're short on time (or just impatient) and looking for a way to work out several parts of the body at once then Trikanasana, the Triangle pose, is your man (or woman. Yoga isn't sexist).As Olga Allon, owner of Hot Bikram Yoga, puts it: "It's a bit of wonder stretch. It works...
Kerry McCarthy is senior writer for Runner's World magazine. He has run 10 marathons, raced Usain Bolt and trained with Paula Radcliffe - but he hasn't been able to touch his toes since he was a child.Hello and welcome to our new Yoga for Runners
Want better sex? Relax, we're not spamming you with a dodgy 'herbal viagra' offer. It's actually the next pose in the Bikram sequence which could boost your sex life and more besides.Garudasana, or the Eagle Pose, is the only posture that opens up the 14 largest joints in the ske...
So here it is, blog 4, and the second of the 26 Bikram poses. We're properly getting warmed up now - although not as warm as you'll be by the time you're halfway through the set. Dripping with sweat doesn't even begin to cover it, no matter how low in body fat you may be.This pos...
