Hi, Firstly, Happy New Year to everyone. My local running club is very popular and thus I'm on a waiting list to join. Obviously, I'm going to keep training. As some of you ARE the marathon I was wondering if and how you improved you marathon times? Did you just up your weekly mileage to 50 or 70 miles a week concetrating…
Hi, Just a big thank you to everyone who contributed to this tread last time. I have my mileage at only around the 40+ mile a week mark but consistently so and I'm still slowly increasing. It's been about 2 months now I've been following the advice. I ran my first official 10K of the year last weekend. Won't lie I was…
Hi, I'm wondering how many of you are in an athletics or running club? I'm considering joining my local athletics club. My only worry is I'm very tight on time. I have 3 children from age 10 months to 4 years and my wife would probably kill me if this was going to take up a significant amount of time. One of the reasons I…
Hi, I had a nice holiday with the kids and took about 10 days off running. The only running I did was one short run on a beach (in the rain, a typical Irish holiday) not even a mile. I did my usual run into work when I got back about 7 miles and took it very slowly with light stretches on my calves before I started. I now…