Run up to Christmas – using Strava
This is a slightly unusual post. By way of background, a large number of my #LymeRunners group are taking part in this year’s RunUp2Christmas fundraiser for MIND. Whilst quite a few have GPS running watches,…
This is a slightly unusual post. By way of background, a large number of my #LymeRunners group are taking part in this year’s RunUp2Christmas fundraiser for MIND. Whilst quite a few have GPS running watches,…
Well today is the final day of my #REDBED Challenge. I have managed to run and blog every day for the whole of December. As I alluded in yesterday’s post, I wanted to delve into…
Yesterday’s post was a little bit downbeat. Hopefully today’s will counter that, with a couple of milestones reached in the various challenges I’m doing. A couple of milestones It might seem odd that Day 19…
As amateur athletes, we are spoiled with the expanse of technology which is easily available to us. GPS watches are available at many different budgets and most mobile phones carry a GPS chip. Sites such…
Yorkshire 3 Peaks – or “sixteen go mad in Yorkshire” Christmas pre-amble Well it’s Christmas which, as usual for most people, has involved sitting around and consuming far too much in warm houses for the…
First of all, may I wish you all a Happy New Year! I will be doing a 2015 round-up shortly, but with the year that’s just passed, it’s going to take a bit of writing….
This is a first impressions post about the new Stryd module which is the first device to specifically measure power whilst running. For cyclists, power has been a metric which has been used for years to…
Yesterday was Chester Marathon and it was my third race at the distance. Preparation has been thorough if not somewhat unorthodox. It’s certainly not a plan I would recommend to follow. Indeed I think it…
It’s been a business as usual approach to the training recently. But not without a few eye opening moments. I’ve written in the past about the usefulness of the variety of ‘challenges’ which are set…
I must admit that the two weeks in Scotland have flown by. And it has been a mostly pleasant and relaxing time, away from all I had left behind at home. With being physically fit…