How to stop a cold a week before a marathon
Well, that’s the question I asked the experts last Monday, when I woke up with aches and a sore throat with less than seven days before the Fort William marathon. Read our three...
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Running jacket: Brooks LSD Jacket
From spring to summer and autumn showers, this running jacket gets the thumbs up Nothing beats my love for my Original Mountain Marathon Kamielka jacket. But it’s a ‘tough weather climate’ option and...
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What’s your poison?
Or that’s how I refer to the necessary, but hated, sports gels. But could there be an alternative? I’ve always disliked sports gels and sports drinks, marketed in such a way to make...
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Running Revolution in India
Two years ago, I travelled around India, interviewing many runners who are contributing to an explosion in running in the subcontinent. I also managed to slip in a winning place at the Mumbai Marathon...
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The Bewl 15
Beautiful scenery, beer, bag pipes AND a brass band. What more could one ask for from a summer trail run? Why so many runners spend hours training during the autumn-winter for spring...
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Heart rate training for endurance
Want to maximise your endurance and fat burning? Train with a heart rate monitor Over the last eight years, I’ve used heart rate training sporadically. It always seems such an effort to find...
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Travels with my goddaughter
People often ask what drives me to run and explore so much. Because life teaches you to seize every opportunity, as I wrote about for Good Housekeeping this month 2people Travels with my...
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Running Artists
Want a unique way of helping you to run further? Try becoming a GPS artist… Three years ago, when I was teaching a Yoga for Runners course, one of the runners in my...
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Run for the Hills
In less than 24 days, I’ll take on the very first Fort William marathon, including The Devil’s Staircase … Run for the hills. Or in the opposite direction, which is how I felt...
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