One of the 7 races held as part of the UTMB European major, based in the Val D’Aran region in the Pyrenees. The PDA is normally a 55k race, with 3300m ascent and 3600m descent. Due to the thunder storms that had rolled in pre-race week the race was shortened to 52k with 2900m of … Continue reading UTMB PDA 55k
I’ve looked at the shoes on the feet of the top 10 athletes in Boston & London the last week. Boston first: What struck me is it felt like a broader range of shoes on the feet of the athletes, than has been previously the case (possibly recency bias on my part). Watching this yesterday … Continue reading Shoes worn at Boston & London
I’ve just finished and glad I’ve re-read. It’s been pretty helpful for me over the last week and this as it’s reinforcing / reminding / reaffirming for me key messages to give to runners competing in either Boston or London.Reminding me of the specific chemical & hormonal shift in framing something as a threat or … Continue reading Chatter – Ethan Kross
I love my running journals – something I started in 2019, so not something that I’ve been doing for years, but definitely something that has evolved over time. I think I’m on my 7th now. The layout I’ve settled on, that works well for me is to use a double page spread for each week. … Continue reading Running Journals
Last week I tried Maurtens Bicarb for the first time. I’d bought some to try out pre Paddock Wood half and training runs leading up to that. Hearing about the integration into longer distance events I was curious, seemingly it making a noticeable difference at any distance where you are working hard enough to allow … Continue reading The Bicarb experiment
One of the best things that has come out of my knee injury is buying / starting / using David Grey’s hip program. Having looked at my movement, ascertaining just how weak my right hip is & discovering no improvement post snowboarding I decided to buy David’s new Hip program to help try and resolve … Continue reading David Grey Hip program
I recently had a setback running – something new that I’d not experienced before. A little frustrating when my training felt good and I had just made one of those breakthroughs, where you can feel the work pushing you onto somewhere new. However this at the cost of too much, too close together, when not … Continue reading Unpeeling Layers
The 2 biggest shifts in marathoning, over the last few years – for me – are the shoes & fuelling. The days of using jaffa cakes for a marathon are long gone (which were perfectly adequate for ,y marathon debut in 2004 running round New York, if not a little dry). The advice of 60g … Continue reading Fuelling
Running to London & other thoughts by Kevin McQuaid Read on Substack Continue reading Substack
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
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