Last Tuesday I had a 3-mile race just two miles from my front door. How convienient! Except I was in Greece still. There's a huge business around doing races in foreign counties and you could spend thousands of pounds doing the Great Wall of China marathon, the Everest marathon and such likes. But I think I [...]
Forget your bleep tests, VO2 max tests and the like, the biggest indicator of your current fitness has to be the 60m sprint for the bus. You might think that you'd recovered well from last night's hill session or your last long run - that is until you go flat out to make it to [...]
Last week I read an interesting article about how regular exercise can help prevent you getting a cold and reduce the amount you do get by about half. A lot of born-again runners (those like me who have come to the sport later in life after reforming their once sedentary lives) know this from first-hand [...]