I’ve been playing about with Supershoes to see which I’d run London in this year. The 4 shoes are: NIke Vaporfly3 , Nike Alphafly3, Asics Metaspeed Paris +, Adidas Adios Pro4. I loved the Vaporfly’s when they first came out, running Berlin & Rotterdam in them and went back to them for London in 2022. … Continue reading Supershoes
There has been a recent thread on the Science of Sport Discourse forum around the quality of provision from fitness professionals, based on the US experience. This touched on something that has always struck me, whenever I do any fitness based training qualifications. I cannot underestimate how much I have gained from 10 years in … Continue reading Teaching supporting coaching
I had the best year of consistent running last year, pretty much since I went back to the marathon in 2017. This underpinned by the irony of writing this, with a lower back niggle, wearing a power dot to try and stimulate some healing (I can’t have everything and hopefully this a minor niggle as … Continue reading 2024 done
For the last few years I get to December and begin to notice books of the year lists popping up (Alex Hutchinson’s recommendations starting this). This happens around the same time I have a slightly longer break, with more time to read so I begun to buy a pile of books to keep me going … Continue reading Books
I’ve enjoyed the training I’ve managed to put together over the last few months – it’s served me well and I’ve noticed the improvements, not least with the solid run I managed at the Kent Masters XC 2 Saturdays ago. With the success in staying healthy, over the last few months I’ve been tinkering / … Continue reading Change / adjust / alter
The last few weeks have flown by – which is a good thing. I’ve found myself a lot busier with teaching than usual, which is always valuable in supporting coaching. The last week I spent in a very different school, the Caldecott Foundation which provides an environment far more suited to children with very complex … Continue reading Things that have occupied me recently.
It was the first day of the Kent League Cross Country season this Saturday. Race 1 at Footscray Meadows. My love of running was reinforced in secondary school by XC, even though running round Marble Hill Park wasn’t really that challenging or muddy. I was chatting with one of the juniors about what appealed to … Continue reading Cross Country starts
I do like a blank piece of paper, some coloured pencils & a pen. I find it really helps with drawing up an overall vision or map to then move through / change as time sees fit. With over half a year until London Marathon (assuming my good for age time is fast enough) and … Continue reading Currently I am.
I was lucky enough to get offered an allotment last week – see above. When we moved to Westgate I put my name down on the waiting list, thinking it would be at least 10 years, me being over 60 by the time I got one. I had an email last year telling me I … Continue reading An allotment & the marathon
Big dreams – I’ve had some time to consider what I would like to work towards over the last couple of weeks. I reached the end of the current block of training that I was focusing on – the aim had been to run a 5k track race Wednesday gone. My training has gone well, … Continue reading My new plan
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