Runners Daily Blog

Barefoot workshop

huwd — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:23:46 +0000

Barefoot running workshop Huw Davies BTA Level 3 Coach and Coach Educator Matt Wallden MSc Ost Med, CHEK IV, CHEK Faculty, Osteopath, Naturopath Date: Saturday March 7th 2009 Venue: TBC - but it will be in or near Weybridge, Surrey, UK The low down: Learn how barefoot running can optimise walking and running posture Understand how posture can optimise efficiency in running and enhance [...]

There’s none so deaf as those who won’t hear

huwd — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:51:40 +0000

Twice recently I have had occasion to curse runners - under my breath, admittedly. I fundamentally will always defend runners almost to the hilt, but on these two occasions I bemoaned their gross stupidity. Runners are humans, after all, and most humans are stupid. On each occasion one of these runners ran out into [...]

What is an athletics stadium for?

huwd — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:14:49 +0000

Next year the world Athletics Championships will be in Berlin. Now every two years, these championships were kicked off in 1983, intended to be held every four years, and the first host city was the Finnish capital and athletics hotbed Helsinki. Last year it was Osaka, Japan. In 2011 Daegu in Korea will play host. [...]

In defence of Ms Radcliffe

huwd — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:56:16 +0000

‘I hate the way the media fawn over Paula Radcliffe’. - Comment on BBC site. ‘The marathon has moved on now, she has been left behind.’ Ditto. ‘Paula Radcliffe has been accused by her critics of being a bottler’, and: ‘When Radcliffe collapsed in Athens four years ago, notable columnists descended upon her as if she had brought [...]

How will Paula do in New York?

huwd — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:16:08 +0000

After Paula Radcliffe’s searing victory at this weekend’s Great South Run, turning on the heat in a cold, wet and windy Portsmouth, the question is: how will Paula do in next week’s biggie, the New York City Marathon? First of all, is she fit? A fully-fit Radcliffe is, on paper, a favourite to win pretty much [...]

Speed. Where can I get some? (2)

huwd — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:44:39 +0000

In the first of this series on speed I looked at one of the basic requirements: how much force you apply to the ground. Now it’s time to expand a little on how to get stronger without getting heavier, and how weight loss can play a part in improving your distance running. In a nutshell, heavy [...]

Speed. Where can I get some?

huwd — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:23:48 +0000

Do you want to go faster? There’s no catch, no hard sell, say yes if you want to. Oh, so you do. Now, is that ‘I WANT to go faster’ (and will do what it takes), or is that ‘Yes, well I’d quite like to go faster,’ as in ‘I’d quite like to play the [...]

Shoe review: Inov-8 F-lite 250

huwd — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:20:41 +0000

For Runnersdaily, this is a fairly recent shoe to be reviewing. Who knows, one day we’ll be reviewing shoes before they’re released… Inov-8 describe their philosophy as building a shoe around the mechanics of the foot, which might be just so much glib shoe-company marketing bullshit if it didn’t actually seem to be the reality. I [...]

10 running surfaces

huwd — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:43:02 +0000

Variety is the spice of running. Just as running in different types of shoes will challenge and stimulate your biomechanics, so will varying the surfaces you run on. You become more durable, with better lower leg strength and sharper reflexes. A more complete runner, let’s say. Runnersdaily casts a critical eye over what’s out there. Tarmac/asphalt. [...]

£1 million a day, and £55,000 an hour

huwd — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:43:31 +0000

The above figures are how much diabetes is costing the health services of Northern Ireland and Wales respectively. (I don’t know how the £55,000 per hour was calculated, but if you multiply that by 24 hours in a day, it comes out at well over a million pounds too). Reports by Diabetes UK, and Diabetes [...]