I’ve been thinking about all of the impact that the pelvis has on movement – realising that if I’ve learnt anything over the last 4-5 years is just how little I do actually know. With this in mind the first thing I wanted to do was take a closer look at the pelvis itself (leading … Continue reading The staggering pelvis
I’ve ben enjoying running again, mostly easy post the Snowdon experience, with the odd weekly faster session thrown in. During Saturday’s I could feel my right calf begin to tighten – reaching the point where I stopped just at the point where it would have been too overloaded. Thankfully a perfect stopping point. It felt … Continue reading Why one calf and not the other?
I rewatched the mens 800m 2012 final this week and as always got goosebumps watching David Rudisha make it all seem so normal, easy, effortless – which it clearly isn’t. The whole race is here below: at this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKEOjWEzVGs which I won’t / can’t embed due to the IOC not allowing me too. I … Continue reading David Rudisha and his wonderful form.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching the marathon yesterday – both men’s and women’s races were very enjoyable, in different ways. One of the things I really enjoyed was watching Emile Cairess (2:06:46) & Mahamed Mahamed (2:07:05) storm through the field, over the last few miles to come 3rd & 4th in what proved to be 2nd … Continue reading London Marathon 2024 – tiny differences
I bought this great model of a foot recently – it’s a lot of fun to play around with and get a better feel / understanding of how the bones in the feet move and the knock on impact this has on the muscles / tendons that are attached. One of the areas I’ve been … Continue reading The foot & achilles
Over the last 7 week marathon build – and the last 4 weeks of my running recently I’ve stuck to a pretty similar set of warm up routines, fuelling, dependant on the type of run I’ve been doing and the outcome for the runs that I’m looking for. Time / patience / comfort all play … Continue reading Warming up – The differences I’ve used in last cycle (breath & tools)
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