After a long run or race, your legs, back and shoulders can feel very tight. Practising a few simple restorative yoga poses can help you regain your range of motion, reduce the swelling in your legs and improve blood circulation to help speed your
speed equal to or faster than your desired mile time. Try 8 x 1 minute fast, with a minute of walking or very slow jogging inbetween as recovery. This should be preceded by a good warm-up and stretching exercises, and should also be followed by a gentle
pace (the speed above which lactate begins to pile up in your blood). Compared to maximal aerobic capacity (VO2 max) and running economy two other variables often used to gauge fitness lactate threshold is a much better indicator of your running
in common with running shoes than with outdoor shoes. Its flexible enough to run naturally in, and no heavier than, say, a heavy New Balance trail shoe.If you want real running speed and excellent grip (and speed often requires grip), a shoe like
is: Your speed form training pace is: Your long run training pace is: Your Yasso 800s training pace is: The ingredients EasyrunsTop coaches and exercise physiologists believe
We're delighted to announce the winners of our Garmin Forerunner competition!We offered three all-new Garmin Forerunner 205s and 305s to the RW members who posted the most helpful reviews of their existing heart rate monitor or speed & distance
starting and stopping a car, which uses more petrol." A 10.7 stone (68kg) runner doing a four-miler at a nine-minute/mile pace burns about 480 calories. But you can torch more calories, speed weight loss and spark up your runs by swapping that four
Sports timepieces have come a long way since the digital stopwatches of the early 1980s. Top-of-the-range speed and distance models are not within everybody's price range, so what are the features you should look for in a mid-range version
acquaintances extolling its virtues. These endorsements reminded me just what a nifty-but-simple bit of kit the Sportband is. Essentially, it is a basic speed and distance monitor. It's a pedometer which syncs with a chip you insert into your Nike shoe (if you
, you may be able to speed up over the last mile. Remember, though, that level pace is not the same as level effort, and you will have to work harder towards the end to maintain level pace.Anderson: Remember that the first few minutes of a 10K set