Last updated: 15-Nov-18 By Elsa Trujillo Read on for some interesting articles on heart rate training, magnesium deficiency and how negative splits can affect your running on race day. We also bring you an article on how to prevent getting lost when running the trails, another on the long run (and base training) and finally […]
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Last updated: 19-Oct-18 By Elsa Trujillo This week we bring you a selection of articles that focus on natural performance enhancement: limiting the negatives, testing yourself as you run, increasing consistency and making sure you know how to spot early signs of hyperthermia. And rabbits. But it’s not all hard work, there is also Ian
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Last updated: 15-Nov-18 By Elsa Trujillo May is a busy running month, with hundreds of races making the most of the temperate weather around the globe before summer and winter descend on the Northern and Southern hemispheres. This week, we bring you articles that concentrate on improving your technique and your training for young and
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Last updated: 28-Jun-16 By Ian Corless In this article, we look at Hyperthermia which refers to the elevated temperature of the human body due to a failure of thermoregulation and in severe cases can result in death. Hyperthermia is most often caused by two things: heat stroke and/ or a reaction to drugs. Here, we
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Last updated: 28-Jun-16 By Ian Corless They sound the same don’t they? But don’t be confused. In the following two articles we will clearly explain the differences and do our best to inform you how to avoid it and what to do should it happen. This article will be about Hypothermia but before we begin,
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Last updated: 06-Nov-18 By Robert and Jackie Chapman Call him crazy but Robert Chapman has decided to run round the perimeter of Wales in memory of his friend TJ. Here he and his wife tell the story. The Moon Shadow Wales Challenge requires me to put myself through the stress and strain of running around
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Last updated: 19-Jul-18 By Elsa Trujillo Running has been high on the news agenda in the last few weeks. The Marathon des Sables, and then the start of road marathon season with London, Madrid, Boston, Rome and Vienna, have been making headlines. To keep you up to speed, we’ve trawled through the web to bring
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Last updated: 19-Jul-18 By Elsa Trujillo Drink cool fresh water and plenty of fluids to hydrate. If this sentence doesn’t make you thirsty, these articles certainly will. We’ve put together our best articles on hydration by our favourite nutritionist Rin Cobb. We cover all situations and locations in which water is a key element of
Last updated: 15-Apr-16 By Rin Cobb So if you’re anything like I was, you’ll be in hibernation mode this week after your tremendous achievement, bravo! I seem to remember a week of mostly sleeping post MDS so I’m always amazed at how many of you head straight back to work; cue flip flops and suits
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Last updated: 19-Jul-18 By Elsa Trujillo This is the week of the Marathon des Sables and plenty of its participants will have blisters or worse and maybe many of them will be carrying some old-fashioned plasters in their meticulously packed and weighed backpacks. Here’s our latest selection of articles from the web focusing on your
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