It's fair to say that there were three very good reasons for signing up to do a VO2 max test. Firstly it was free and if you decline something that's free it actually costs you money - which sort of makes sense. Second of all I was a little bit curious about what all this [...]
The 24 hours leading up to a race have always been a stressful and anxious time for me. Have I remembered by running shoes? Did I pack my race number? Where did I put my timing chip? All this nervous energy is wasted energy that won't be put to good use where it matters: on [...]
A crisp autumn morning is good for two things, staying in bed admiring the blue sky from the comfort of under the duvet or heading to the park for a race. I chose the later of those two things on Saturday and took my legs (still wearing shorts) for a 5k in Brockwell Park.The ParkRun [...]
Paula Radcliffe speaking at the Nike Run Club in Stratford on 13 Oct. Filmed by lazygirlrunning.com
Running can be pretty cheap if you can manage to reign in your spending on overseas races, expensive compression clothing and the latest must-have gadgets. And this week two stores will be helping make it slightly less expensive to run through the winter by hooking you up with some of the cheapest kit going. Aldi [...]
Coming away from the Great Eastern Run at the weekend without a PB (unless I resort to claiming it as a half-marathon with a cold PB) means I still have two PBs to find and less than two weeks to find them if I'm to bag myself an awesome this autumn.So race listings have been [...]
"Hey, did you know that food makes you fat?""No way!""It's true, I read it in a newspaper.""Oh my God. I'm giving up food.""Me too. I mean, we'll probably die, but at least we won't be fat right?"It's irresponsible and wrong, when we're constantly being told that the nation is in the middle of an obesity [...]
The days prior to a race should be spent resting up, drinking plenty of fluid and eating well. So that's what I did. I laid in bed for two whole days straight shivering, sweating and aching; ate handfuls of ibuprofen tablets; and drank plenty of Lemsip. I had a cold and the Saturday night prior [...]
If Fred Astaire had a nephew he probably wouldn't race him across a lawn barefoot. Fred apparently insured his feet for $65,000, which was a lot of money in Fred's era. It's a lot of money now but in the days of J-Lo insuring her arse for $1m, it doesn't seem so much.Fred's insurance policy [...]
So you didn't get into the 2012 London marathon through the ballot, join me and the thousands of other runners that are feeling a bit miffed at the moment.But it doesn't have to be the end of your marathon dream. Did you know that other marathons in the world actually exist? It's true, I've checked [...]