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Another 6.5m acw lap of thruscross, starting and finishing 1 mile back down the valley below the dam. I went too fast for true threshold pace I...

I hope Tony Varley is on the list.

It was such a beautiful morning in Llanberis that i nearly abandoned my plans and considered doing the Moel Elio ridge instead... however after...

Beacon Hill, via Buck Hill and Felicity's Wood: only my third run since recovering from Achilles tendonitis. So 61m20s was much faster than I was...

I never knew Paul Dugdale well, but I met him a few times when he was a student at Dundee University (which coincided with my time as a research...

We must be desperate or just nice You decide and take a run over the top of the Pennines on Sunday 30th June Added to the class glass for...

Well done Travs. Excellent effort :cool:

1st at the short race yesterday (well, i was beaten by the leading team from the pairs race, but took the first individual prize). There were...

17.88 miles, 5,138 feet, 6 hours 9 minutes: Ambleside to Sergeant Man and back, taking in Loughrigg top, Silver How, and Blea Rigg both ways, and...

I listened to the latest one on friday and it was a good listen.

I'm in. Thanks WP

10.81 miles, 3,091 feet, 3 hours 33 minutes: Wansfell Pike from 2 sides, including along the ridge to the true top, down to the upper part of Nanny...

Yes, although it is not all that rare for a girl to win a junior fell race, the numbers of runners are rather small, so it does just need a top girl...

First run outside of Teesdale for what seems like ages. So, an old favourite, from Weasdale up to Green Bell, along the green trod to Randygill Top,...

EMOM press-ups routine. 11 reps (floor to lock to floor) press-ups, every minute, for 10 minutes. Secs remaining for each of the 10X 1 min sets. ...

Reccied the first half of the Welsh 1000 (short) this afternoon. Started off from Ogwen in beautiful sunshine, but by the time I reached the foot...

EMWM for 40 minutes, thumbs touching chest to floor press-ups. 11 sets of 3, 21 sets of 2, the rest singles. So 83 in total.

14.29 miles, 3,678 feet, 4 hours 10 minutes: Rothay Bridge - Roman Ruins - Borrans Park - Stagshaw Gardens - Skelghyll Lane - Troutbeck - Garburn...

I think you have to be careful because fell running is a tad niche and fields are small. At BBH when we were 3 times junior fell winners, we had a...

There's not much difference in speed and strength between males and females in the youngest junior age groups. I was watching Becky Willoughby's...

Yes... I totally agree, there's a lot of sense behind it, and i'd love to try it myself. Just throwing up a counter-point that its not the only...

"they are perhaps more likely to go way past their lactate threshold in rep sessions..." But then it will take them ages to recover from that...

2 laps of a 5k loop at 9.30mmp last night. I went up to 3 strides/breath at about 4.5km and stayed there for the rest of the run. Historically these...

https://www.velogames.com/cdd/2024/ Dauphine open if anyone fancies joining in

Yes that appears to be the theory, but its not the only method. If you take an event like the 1500mtr (which Ingerbritsen is well known for).... ...

Exactly how much stress is enough but not too much - it would seem going by feel, nor time, is not good enough, hence the lactate measurements. I...

A lot of the British elite also measure lactate during sessions.... particularly those living/training in the USA. That said.... "All of this...

An interesting article on the "Norwegian Method" of training - have your lactate blood testing kits handy: ...

Well Bob Graham himself went clockwise. Alan Heaton went anti-clockwise but the next four went clockwise then it's 2:1 in favour of anti-clockwise...