RichardM, Spans, FatBuddha, Armadillo and NikiMany thanks to Petal and Cedric for the photosIt was a cold, dark, rainy and windy night somewhere north of Wolverhampton.In the early hours of the morning of January 32nd (in the Tough Guy calendar
that someone thinks them capable of jogging. - popsiderJoin the threadNo thanks...SO, SO COLD!It's so so cold outside and my 'good girl' four training runs a week have stopped. How do you get through the winter? – Blonde007Once you start running, your body gets
does to your head..."I'm now half way through my second week of caffeine withdrawal, and it sucks. I've partly given up my daily one/two-cup boost to resensitise myself, so that a tiny bit of coffee will have a greater effect before a long run
racing." For Joe Vrablik, a triathlete based in Boulder, Colorado, the combination of heat and humidity is his bête noire. "The majority of the time it hits me on the run," he says. Vrablik often notices signs of impending unpleasantness late
run? I still seem to ache two days later. I was advised not to stretch after long runs, so I normally just elevate my legs then sit in bath with my sports drink. Slimline Chips I have a cold bath (up to my waist) for the time it takes me to drink a
reached 19 in the race I was rapidly running out of knees. Limpinghome with failure not an option. In pain and getting cold, the final insultcame with a torrential downpour just as I crossed the finish line . When Iretrieved my kitbag it had been stored
, ran slowly", a training diary will encourage you to examine why you felt that way. Make sure you include that you've been suffering from a cold, or have had a few bad nights; in other words, anything unrelated to your running that could affect your
Scrabbling around in the cupboard under the bathroom sink for something to treat a minor running injury is a common occurrence chez Spedding. Sadly, I’ve yet to find a muscle pull or joint twist that responds well to applications of Bonjela or six
, basically, winter is cold. Don’t let that put you off. Pull on one of the base layers tested here, and you’ll barely notice the chill in the air. We generate a lot of heat when we run – about the same wattage as a one-bar electric fire – no matter what
After running 3:23 in his debut marathon, Aidan Hewison, a university researcher, set his sights on cracking three hours for the distance. It wasn't an unreasonable expectation: he'd run under 38 minutes for 10K and was close to 1:25 for a half
