Category: Running

  • New shoes

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    I’ve said it before, but is there anything better than new shoes? Annabel got her first pair of proper walking shoes (and I got new running shoes). When your mileage goes up you really start getting through shoes. I need to buy another couple of pairs too.

  • Goals

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    This was a screenshot of my Mac’s desktop last week. The desktop’s wallpaper’s numbers are my half-marathon goal (time & distance). I found it useful to remind myself of what I was aiming for when getting into a fatigued, JFT mode whenever I cleared my display. I smashed that number (and I thought I was…

  • Llanelli Half-Marathon Race Report

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    I ran my first half-marathon race on Sunday, at Llanelli. Here are my mile splits: Mile 1: 6:14 Mile 2: 6:43 Mile 3: 6:37 Miles 4 & 5: 13:04 (missed the mile marker, about 6:32 min/miles) Mile 6: 6:01 Mile 7: 6:06 Mile 8: 6:02 Mile 9: 6:17 Mile 10: 6:22 Mile 11: 6:32 Mile…

  • Yee!

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    Yee!, originally uploaded by samwebster. Happy running!

  • Flying

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    I ran a short 8.4km tempo run today that included a 5km stretch of about 6:20 min/mile pace. Well, that was the plan. The distance is a bit weird because of the landmarks I use, but it’s enough for me to measure my pace on. The aim was to remind me how bad I’ll feel…

  • From runner to runner? (Part 1)

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    My sporting history looks like it has come full circle. But I expect it to disappear off again in a new direction. At school I played the usual sports, and had good speed playing rugby and whatnot. But the other boys got bigger and I didn’t, and my ball handling/kicking skills were never up to…

  • Riding with my shadow

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    Multisport athletes are very lucky. I’m getting very tired of running, both mentally and physically. That’s as it should be as I’m reaching high levels of fatigue in the weeks before a race, and my legs feel like they’re in top condition (aerobically anyway, but there is some imbalance and tightness). The last two weeks…

  • Post workout recovery latte

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    My caffe latte I, er, occasionally grab after a tough run or a strength workout at the gym may actually be a better recovery drink than I joked about in a previous post. In a full milk latte you’re looking at around 10g protein, 225 calories and 5g of fat. Fat’s a good thing for…

  • Wired: These Toes Were Made for Running

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    Short toes are much better for running. I’m not talking about people with particularly short toes, but it may explain more about the evolution of our feet and why our toes are so much shorter than chimps’. A recent study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology studies the importance of this and Wired spoke…

  • Half marathon

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    I’m into my final 4 week training block now before my next exam: the Llanelli half marathon. I’ve never raced this distance before and with the pace that I want to run in mind, it’s a daunting prospect. The course is by the sea, so I guess that runners are at the mercy of the…