of either a flat piece of wood or a modified horse saddle. Riders favoured the upholstered leather saddles over the wooden models; they straddled the seat, pushed off with their feet to move forward and never picked up much speed.By the 1860s, however
to Reading Half Marathon I started getting pain around the ball of my foot. This has continued since the race and I'm now training for another next month and am worried about aggravating it more with the added speed work.The pain occurs around the ball
suffering injuries again because the leg muscles are /gait is completely inefficient - and speed shows up the problem most.CausesBiomechanical – eg the bones are unusually shaped – hence the muscles can't help but be in the wrong position. Very common
| Runner's Trots | FeetBeating blistersUse blister plasters to speed healingEvil Pixie - To treat blisters: make sure feet are properly dry; apply blister plasters (Compeed, Scholl, Savlon and Boots all do these); apply tape over plaster and round foot
. If you have a time in mind, then maybe forget it and just aim on getting round. Badly Drawn Bloke How are you working out your target pace? Tempo sessions can be run at different speeds. Moraghan Join the thread For the week ending 20 April 2009Hot
it that much! Lisa K I had very bad calf pain after my track session, had a cold bath today and now the pain has gone! I grab a woolly hat, get a cup of tea and quickly get in. It's shocking at first but after a couple of minutes the torture isn't too bad
to say the cold weather is doing wonders for my speed work... the faster I run the quicker I get back home to a hot shower! – Christmas time callycat and wineDon’t mind the cold as long as you have a base layer top and leggings, hate cold AND rain
years ago – and we've learned a bit since then. We now know that a combination of endurance training (long slow runs) and speed/strength training is likely to be more successful. The Kenyans, for example, do lots of steady miles but also speed training
interval sessions a few months before the event to focus on speed and technique, and then settled in to building up the miles. The difference with this was that my mileage was dictated by the temperature of the water. For this reason, I’d done no more
needn't have worried; they were all fantastic, really supportive of what I was hoping to achieve. From that moment I gained so much confidence - me, a member of a running club! The next few months flew by in a flurry of training sessions until the big
