My Training Diary for Marathons and Ultras
On Sunday 3rd March I ran half of a marathon, as my partner likes to put it. The Cambridge Half Marathon to be precise. I ran it with one of my longest serving friends, Alex, who had not been able to run for about two years, due to some knee and back problems. With not […]
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One of the things that I have learnt over the past few weeks is how important protein is and how I needed to check how much I am actually consuming. Turns out that it isn’t enough. According to various sources somebody of my size and age, who exercises regularly needs to consume between 1.6 – […]
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I thought things were on track, I had not felt any pain in my calf for about a week. I had been able to cycle, perform weighted calf raises, squats, dead lifts and more, and not so much as a teeny, tiny, twinge had occurred. I even did a 1km run on the treadmill after […]
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It has taken almost four days for my legs to recover from my leg work out last Thursday. The steady cycle on the Wattbike yesterday, I think, aided my recovery. An hour or so after I had finished I could feel a big reduction in the soreness that was still lingering. My glutes were the […]
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On Tuesday this week I meet someone, over Zoom, that I have followed on Instagram for a few years. Gary House, an ultra runner and running coach. I decided I needed to seek his expertise on all things running. I booked a “House Call” with him. Just like his social media content, it did not […]
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Due to the calf niggle in my right leg I’m not able to run at the moment which means some cross training needs to be done. So fuelled by various inspirational runners and coaches at the National Running Show the previous day I set off down to the gym to cycle, row and step for […]
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Last weekend me and my good friend Alex, aka @badgerbeats, took a trip to The National Running Show. We planned our day well, before heading over to the NEC in Birmingham, because there was plenty we wanted to see and we wanted to make sure we had good seats for each of the talks. The […]
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After pulling my left calf on Christmas Eve and coming down with Covid on boxing day, the Christmas training did not go well. So I rested, we even had a 3 night break in Lanzarote in the first week of the New Year. The week after, I decided to take it slow and steady and […]
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