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….
Mile 20. The crowd is thinning. Your legs feel like they’ve been replaced with two damp sandbags. And somewhere deep in your gut, a civil war is breaking out between…
It’s 8:47am on a Saturday. Your trainers are already damp. You’re standing at the start line with 400 other people in high-vis, all pretending they’re not about to race each…
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…
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…
It’s 5:47am. The alarm went off twelve minutes ago. It’s raining – obviously it’s raining, this is Britain. You’ve got a 10-miler planned along the towpath and one very pressing…
It’s 5:47am. The alarm goes off. It’s raining – obviously it’s raining, this is Britain. You haul yourself out of bed, lace up your trainers, and somewhere between the front…
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…
Wondering how to start running? You’re not alone – thousands of Brits lace up their trainers each year. Running is accessible to almost everyone and can transform your health. The…
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…
You crossed the finish line. You cried a bit (no judgement). Someone wrapped a foil blanket around you like a sad, sweaty baked potato. You got the medal, the photo,…
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…