There's a few good essential things to remember when doing interval training: do your intervals at the correct pace, don't go out too hard on your first interval and keep them consistent, focus on your form and running tall, and remember your watch.I had forgotten the last of these pieces of advice when the time [...]
Want to train with Jessica Ennis? Yeah, me too but I hear she's pretty busy at the moment what with all those interviews about how to be a badass gold medal winning heptathlete and, you know, training for a gazillion hours a week. You can, however, get a game that will allow you to train with [...]
According to Matt Fitzgerald, Haile Gebrselassie doesn't use a training plan. I like this fact, it reassures me. But this isn't the same thing as not training. The greatest living marathoner does more miles in his sleep than I would do in the average marathon training cycle. This is the opposite of reassuring me - [...]
I arrived at the minor injuries unit at St Thomas’ Hospital as a man with chest pains staggered through the door and immediately I felt like a fraud. But a sympathetic nurse with a good understanding of running injuries took pity on me as I hobbled in and kindly took a look at me. I'd [...]
Yesterday I took my clothes off more times than an overworked stripper. I wore four different pairs of pants (underwear US readers) and got showered in the office twice as I tried to cram three different training sessions into a normal working day.This logistical nightmare took some forward planning, not only to ensure I had [...]
For the most part I love magazines. I write for magazines, I read magazines and I stare at the ones that I'm too tight to buy in the newsagent a lot. What I don't like about them is when they try to package fitness as a product and sell it to women as something that [...]
You're probably familiar with this picture, you're running along trying to keep at a certain pace when three people are headed towards you walking side my side and blocking your path. You get closer thinking one of them will notice you and drop back allowing you to pass, but the closer you get the more [...]
Like the idea of taking part in the Spanish Running of the Bulls but not so keen on the idea of getting skewered by a horn or put off by animal cruelty? Me too. So when my friend James said he was organising a 'running of the bulls' where animal cruelty was replaced by beer [...]
When I say that I can't swim very well I mean that, while I wouldn't drown if you threw me in a pool and that I could do a few lengths before exhausting myself, when swimming I look (ironically) like a fish out of water. I can't do that thing where you put your face [...]
The women's Olympic marathon was in town yesterday, but before reporting for cheering duty, there was a small matter of a 10k to run first. I'd recruited two friends to join me for the Regent's Park 10k, a three lap race round one of London's parks. It's the most fun you can have on a [...]