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A Confidence Boosting PB

A Confidence Boosting PB

I took the stress away, and ran a PB. The Farnborough Half had been on my race calendar for a few weeks, my coach and I had chatted about a January half to see where my fitness and speed was. This race was supposed to be predominantly flat (it didn’t feel like...
Is Stress Ruining Your Run?

Is Stress Ruining Your Run?

My heart is racing. I haven’t just finished my Yasso 800s, I’m sitting in a Clinical Dietetics lecture, one of my favourite modules. If I was wearing a heart rate monitor right now I’m sure it would be registering far above my normal resting HR – but I’ve...
Got a Charity Place in the London Marathon?

Got a Charity Place in the London Marathon?

This post is in partnership by BT MyDonate – however as part of it I am going to give £100 of my fee to one of your charities, and help you enter the ‘Donation Doubler’ – all you have to do to be in with chance of winning is to tell me why...
Do We Really Need a Weekly Rest Day?

Do We Really Need a Weekly Rest Day?

‘I think you might have forgotten to schedule a rest day for me?’ my text to coach Mary said. The reply came – ‘no, that’s not a mistake’, followed by an email explaining all the reasons behind the technique she’s using to...