As holidays go, Easter is easily my favourite. Much like Christmas, it’s the only holiday when work completely comes to halt and everyone, in the UK at least, takes a long weekend, guilt-free in the knowledge that their inbox isn’t going to be backing up in their absence. Unlike Christmas, however, there is less of [...]
As marathon day draws ever closer my fear is tempered with the gratefulness. Sometimes it's easy to forget how lucky I am that I can just get out and run. And keep running. This weekend I completed anther 20 mile race and it felt good. I thought of Clay as I ran, heard his words in [...]
Some readers may be familiar with the unmistakable sweet and chalky, but not altogether unpleasant taste that comes from protein powder. Whether it's mixed in with yogurt, shaken up with a smoothie or mixed into soups or oats, there is a distinctive taste that comes from giving your food that extra powdery protein boost. I [...]
This weekend I've experienced the two polar-opposite elements of marathon training. On the one hand, Saturday saw me enjoying a sports massage and physio session followed by an afternoon in the spa with the girls to help 'loosen my muscles'. On the other, Sunday involved a 20 mile race requiring a 5am start. On Friday [...]
This weekend was my sister's birthday, so on Thursday evening I headed up north for a couple of days to celebrate with her. I'd clustered my runs, going out five times between Monday and Thursday, and saving my long run for my return on Sunday, which meant I could let my hair down for a [...]
So, I have something to confess: I've got a bit of a crush. It all started with running. We both like to run. We are actually both training for a marathon and as a result we understand each other’s desire to talk about training a lot of the time, and about food, rest and recovery [...]
It was somewhere between cutting up my second kiwi and throwing a handful of ice into the blender that R decided to tell me about the research he'd read on the negative impact that blending has on the nutritional value of fruit; specifically that it increases its GI and, in his words, 'basically makes it [...]
So here is the thing: exercise is good for you. This is the startling discovery, revealed in a news report today, based on new research from the University of Cambridge and published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Ok, I'm being glib, that's not all the report said; what it highlighted was the fact [...]
Ok, I'm going to be honest with you: training last week was hard. While I'm normally full of energy and over-enthusiastic about pretty much everything, last week was a struggle and I got into, what Scott Jurek would call, a bit of a 'funk'. When I started writing this post I was focusing on all [...]
With marathon training demanding five runs a week, the longer ones of which are further than I've trained at before, I have to admit that it's taken rather a lot of mental grit keep on top of my training plan this week. Luckily whenever I feel myself flagging I can boost my motivation by just [...]
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