Remember when, three weeks before Edinburgh Marathon I pulled my Achilles? And how in the run up to Venice Marathon I strained my groin then fell off my bike and landed on my knee? As well as how I had a bad case of shin splints preparing for Nottingham marathon?In the run up to Manchester Marathon I've [...]
The body is an amazing but baffling thing. Millions of years of evolution have given us things like thumbs, essential for opening jars of olives and texting a mate to say you're running late. We can stand up straight and run fast (well some of us can) for a bus. But there's still a few [...]
"Laura, have you painted your nails yet?" It was the night before the wedding of one of my oldest friends and I was due to be bridesmaid. The dress was very nice and so were the shoes the bride had picked for me, but unfortunately they were open toe and my feet were still battered [...]
A peculiar thing happens to runners when injured: the urge to run becomes stronger than ever. Runners who put off their long run until the last minute on a Sunday, procrastinating like a teenager avoiding their weekend homework, in the face of the word 'rest' suddenly have an itch that needs scratching and that itch [...]
Forget everything I've said about how you should go out running when you first think about it and get it over and done with, because on Sunday more procrastination was needed. In fact more procrastination would have saved me from a most peculiar running injury. In case you didn't look out a window at the [...]
A lot of runners worry about losing their running fitness if they have to take time out from training for a long period because of injury or circumstances - some even worry that their three-week taper period before a marathon will leave them less fit come race day. It's understandable that you want to protect [...]
RICE, it feeds the world and also helps prevent injury. We are of course talking about two different types of rice - but this is something that I didn't catch onto straight away when people told me that you need to RICE tweaked muscles. So for those of you wondering 'What is RICE?', I shall [...]