I’m keeping this picture until I earn the right to get rid of it. Soaked, in a lot of pain, determined to finish I was in the last couple of KM’s of the Boston marathon – the hardest I’ve done to date and the one that reminded me more than any others, of those simple … Continue reading Boston – brutal, unforgiving, humbling & brilliant
I’ve just finished above and found it a great small book. I wished I’d come to this earlier in my breathing journey as the chapter on how we breathe / cellular respiration was exactly the background I was after when trying to understand why breath-work had an impact – or the processes that underpinned breathing. … Continue reading Science of Breath – A Practical Guide, Swami Rama, Rudolph Ballentine, Alan Hymes
I’ve been carrying out an experiment for the last 12 days. A niggle that came on around 3 weeks ago turned into a run stopping event. Something that I have experienced before, a year ago, a mild tear / strain in my right calf begun to make itself more and more evident. Initially I was … Continue reading Changing tack, The Boston Experiment
I’ve just finished this short book – 53 pages and what a fascinating little book it is. Originally written in 1903 by William Atkinson (who I discovered wrote under several Eastern sounding pseudonyms which in itself must have some great stories behind it, more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_Atkinson) it was a very interesting text around how we … Continue reading The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath by William Atkinson
I’ve been playing around with different recovery modalities during my Boston marathon training block, looking to ascertain the best methods to help down regulate my body post the longer, tougher marathon sessions. I initially started using 61 point mediation (from the Himalayan tradition) post a long run, with a Wim Hof protocol 6 hours later. … Continue reading Breathing for recovery
A good day for 3 of the runners I work with today – which is always nice (especially in marathons). So much can go wrong, they really are very hard things to get right. Aside from the length of time it takes to train – stay fit enough and healthy enough to build a decent … Continue reading PR’s and a BQ
Continuing in my series of the World Marathon Majors, the next one for me to do (and the first one this year) is Tokyo. The course profile – fast and flat with the first 5k downhill. I found a great VR recap of last years running: The whole thing is over 3.5 hours long, but … Continue reading Tokyo Marathon Flyby
I had a great night last Friday. One of the guys I coach was running in the Friday Night Under the Lights 5k races at Battersea Park. 4 mens races & 1 women’s elite race made for fast racing (mens race was won in 14:07 by Tom Keen, womens in 15:48 by Revee Walcott Nolan. … Continue reading Friday Night Under the Lights
I do hope I’m not tempting fate writing about this (although how much tempting fate is our subconscious bias, influencing behaviour leading to the exact outcome we want to avoid I’m unsure about) but to date my road to Boston has been smooth. Hotel for Boston is booked, next flights and somewhere post run to … Continue reading Onwards to Boston
I received a round robin email a couple of weeks ago that had links to 2 new breathwork studies that have just been released. One a meta study (so pulling together of lots of other studies) which I’ll come back to another time. The second was a jointly authored paper by several people, including Andrew … Continue reading New Breathwork studies
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