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Feeling lucky…
I came off my bike on Sunday. It was 60 miles into a 75 mile sportive. I was going slowish, on the flat, and luckly no one around me, either on a bike or in a vehicle. I caught a pothole at the edge of the road (I think). I don't know if I managed to try to do...
Outlaw update
This year my third (and final, for the time being) ironman distance triathlon is the Outlaw in Nottingham on July 1st. I'm in week 17 of a 26 week programme, and working hard. Training's going well. The only blip was a horrid virus that had me off training for the...
Marathon Talk: a great running podcast
When I do my long runs I tend to listen to podcasts or audio books rather than music. And since I discovered Marathon Talk, presented by Martin Yelling (husband of Liz) and Tom Williams, I actually look forward to long runs more, because I can listen to their weekly...
How alcohol affects exercise
In my last blog, one of the things I said made up the 'eating well' part of training was not to go mad on the booze. And lo and behold, today two of my Facebook friends posted links to this article about that very topic. It's short and easy to read so do have a...
Countdown to a spring marathon – ten ways to keep on the right side of injury
Spring marathon season is upon us. As I write it's Rome tomorrow, four weeks Paris and Rotterdam, five weeks from London and six from Manchester. Judging by the legs and the stories of a few of my massage clients recently, people are definitely at the tricky stage...
More lessons from Lanzarote – peaking and getting greedy
On the training camp we had a couple of lecture/Q&A sessions. One focussed on periodisation and peaking properly for a handful of specific targetted races during the year rather than bumbling along without any focus, never really switching off the effort but also...
Learnings from Lanzarote – the power of the mind
I had to work bloody hard on the bike in Lanzarote, which was really good for me. I think to be a good cyclist you need to like pain - or at least to be able to hurt yourself for extended periods of time. And I don't do pain. But I've been doing Audiofuel's Chrissie...
Back from Lanzarote – ready for more work!
I've just returned from a training camp in Lanzarote. Organised by Ian Corless of RunWildRunFree and Martin Yelling of Yelling Performance, it was a friendly, small-scale camp for runners and triathletes of all levels, based at the famous Club La Santa. One thing that...
Endurance athletes and heart trouble – should we worry?
The Sunday Times carried an article this Sunday (11 March 2012) explaining mounting evidence from numerous studies that suggests that endurance athletes may endanger their hearts through accumulated intense exercise. Essentially, according to Matthew Wilson of the...
New research: how massage heals sore muscles
This article was in the New York Times yesterday - 7th Feb 2012. It's only short so do read it. The research investigated how massage could help restore and revive muscles immediately post-exercise, but I guess we can assume that some of the same mechanisms may...
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