What Causes Running Injuries?
Are ‘better’ runners more inflexible? Well this sparked another thought and a blog post from our resident coaching advisor, Andy DuBois around what causes injuries to runners.
Tag: training advice
How to avoid cramp – training, tapering and pickle juice
That man Andy has done it again and this time brings us a rather excellent article on cramping. The curse of runners lives, just when you’re moving well and looking good for a race PB, bang comes the cramp. Here Read More …
The Top 3 Training Mistakes
Over the last few weeks we’ve been focused on providing a lot of tips around training and in essence, how you can better yourself as a runner. These articles have gone down so well, that we feel we need some Read More …
Ten simple rules for training
This post is inspired by my new favourite blog in the whole world, the logic of the long distance. I discovered this little piece of wonder on the web a few days ago and the guy who runs it, ‘Jeff’ Read More …
Tempo Training for Ultra-Runners
As I pounded the oval tonight doing some speedwork, it got me thinking about all this speed and tempo work we as ultra runners now do. A few years ago, the word ‘speed’ and ‘tempo’ was a dirty word amongst Read More …
The science behind stress – Why runners can become injured
Balancing daily responsibilities such as work, family or education with our desire to fulfill athletic ambitions is a fine balance. Modern lifestyles can be stressful. It is easy to get caught off-guard by an unexpected stressor and precariously close to Read More …
Part two – Do ultra-runners really need coaches?
If you read part one of the article, you’ll have read how I fared without the services of a coach for the 6ft track marathon back in March this year. Like I said before, apologies for the rather self-centred focus Read More …
Training Advice: Is running with a hand-held bottle slowing you down?
One of the aspects you’ll notice about the Western States 100 just gone and indeed running in the US in general compared to say Australia and Europe is that those guys seem to use hand-helds far more than we do, Read More …
Do something different everyday that scares you…
I’m not sure if this warrants being under the ultra guides and advice section, but on reading a blog post by the COO of the company I work for in my ‘real-day paying job’, I thought it was a timely Read More …
