more than a dodgy knee and a smidgen of ITB to get to AndyV. Bring on VLM! Steve says: Andy hasn't had the best luck in the last few weeks, with a recurrence of his knee problem and also an ITB niggle. The knee prevented him from running the Reading
training really help prevent injuries?Definitely. Most hill-related injuries, both minor and major, occur on the downhill sections of a course, when gravity is working with you and the full weight of your body is pounding through your joints and muscles
, what you ate, the weather and even your general mood before, during and after each run," adds Wood. "It'll help you identify patterns and the cause and effect of good and bad runs." And training logs don't have a ‘use by' date. "I have all my training
, faster runner and learning a lot more about running in general. Hopefully, Nick’s input will also help prevent me from getting injured during such a long period of training.I’ll be happy with anything under four hours, though with the wind at my back I
, swimming, and weight lifting are great most of the year, as part of low-key training months when your main goals are general fitness and injury prevention, but the heavy training month before a big race needs to be a month of living a little dangerously
, all being well, Lucy will get her long run done this weekendand we will be back on track. Thankfully, a week at this stage is neither here or there! Gareth says: Lucy picked up a nasty illness this week which prevented much progression in her training
use of turbo, cross-training and swimming pool sessions. Unfortunately, this setback has prevented us developing her nutritional strategies further as she has been running less. Hydration has still been key though, as has recovery from the other
the thread For the week ending 15 June 2009Hot to trot...Runner Rivalry When you spot another runner ahead of you on a run, do you get the urge to overtake them even if they’re faster than you? Schmoo74 I find that chaps are (generally) more competitive
