Running in a Heatwave UK: A Realistic Survival Guide
Right, let’s address the elephant in the room: running in a heatwave UK style is a genuinely strange sport. One week you’re battling sideways sleet in a bin bag with…
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London Marathon ballot successful: what to do next
Right, breathe. Your London Marathon ballot successful email has landed in your inbox, probably at some deeply unglamorous moment like on the loo or mid-supermarket-shop, and now you’re a Real…
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Strength Training for Runners: The Exact Exercises You’re (Probably) Skipping
It’s Wednesday evening. You had a vague plan to do some strength work after your easy 5K. Instead, you made a cup of tea, stared at the foam roller for…
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Couch to 5K: What to Do After You Graduate (The NHS App Doesn’t Tell You)
You did it. Nine weeks of dragging yourself out the door in October drizzle, of Laura’s voice telling you to “keep going, you’re doing brilliantly” while your lungs staged a…
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Types of Running Training Explained Simply (So You Can Stop Winging It)
Picture the scene. It’s 6:15am. You’re standing on a rain-soaked towpath in a club vest that wasn’t quite warm enough, trying to remember whether tonight’s session is supposed to be…
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Couch to 5K: What Actually Happens Week by Week (The Honest Version)
You’ve downloaded the app. You’ve told three people you’re “doing Couch to 5K now.” Your trainers are suspiciously white. Week one, day one – you head out the door feeling…
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The Norwegian Singles Method: The Smartest Way to Train Harder Without Destroying Yourself
Right. So there you are, post-Parkrun, half a banana in hand, listening to that one bloke in the club who just ran a 38-minute 10K explain his entire training philosophy….
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Marathon Taper: How to Survive the Maddest Three Weeks in Running
It’s two weeks before your marathon. You’ve done the big miles. You’ve earned the Sunday long runs, the 5am rain alarms, the black toenails, the chafing in places you’d rather…
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Running Faster: Why You’ve Hit a Wall and Exactly How to Break Through It
Picture this. You’ve done the long runs. You’ve suffered through track intervals in horizontal rain wearing three-year-old trainers. You’ve set your alarm for 5am on a Sunday, peeled yourself out…
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How to Run Your First 10K: The Step-by-Step UK Guide to Actually Finishing (and Enjoying It)
Let me set the scene. It’s 6:47am. It’s raining – obviously it’s raining, this is Britain. Your alarm went off at 5am, you ignored it until 5:43, and now you’re…
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Joining a Running Club UK: A Field Guide to the Characters You’ll Meet
Right. You’ve signed up. You’ve ironed your vest (nobody irons their vest, but stay with me), you’ve done a nervous wee, and you’re stood outside a leisure centre at 6:45am…
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Marathon Training Confidence: Regain It Before Race Day
Let’s talk about marathon training confidence. Or more accurately, the slow crumbling of it somewhere around week 9 when your Sunday Long Run feels like a hostage situation and your…
