Are you making plans at the moment? It’s hard, with the possibility of further race cancellations and postponements, to think about what the future might hold. But it could be a very bad idea to wait until you’re sure. Take Reading Half Marathon, for instance. Usually, at this point in the year, I’d have a…
Read MoreWhat goes up…
…always goes up a little bit more than originally anticipated. (If you’re local, and ever attempted to run up Pincents Lane, you’ll know EXACTLY what I’m talking about.) Hills are hard to run up because we’re running against gravity and sometimes hard to run down because it can feel like gravity is going to win…
Read MoreWhat else?
Recently, I’ve asked my runners what they do that’s not running. I was pleasantly surprised that they have a whole heap of fitness and other hobbies. It reassured me that if they ever find themselves injured (or locked-down), they’ll have something else to help them to fill their wellbeing wells. When I think of everything…
Read MoreMud, mud, GLORIOUS mud!
Traditionally, the cross-country season would be under way by now, and fields up and down the land would be filled with discarded-at-the-last-second jumpers, little red and white route markers and not a small amount of cake. This season, it’s a bit different, but that doesn’t mean you can’t make use of the excellent trails you’ll…
Read MoreTime to make a change…
10 weeks left of 2020. What will you do with those 10 weeks? Changing behaviour, especially if it’s become habitual, can be hard. There’s loads of research about how people change their habits and the stages we go through to make changes. I really like the behaviour change model which has been used here, by…
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