When starting on your running journey or any exercise journey it is always best to work out a schedule for when you are going to perform these running sessions. Finding your morning run motivation can be a big factor holding you back. Although I generally do my harder training session in the evening, I like to get up early and do a run followed by a swim in the ocean. I find when starting out the day with this ritual…
Easy Week/Rest Week Week five was a week spent with my daughter who is visiting from Australia. It is important to have family time when it is presented and the body enjoys some rest and recovery time. While only having four running days this week my elevation gains did suffer, only recording 1317m. I did however manage to reach my total kilometer goal for the week of 90km in four straight days. Week five went as follows: DAY TRAINING DISTANCE…
Variety in Your Running Training If you are looking for a well-rounded training regime you need to know that you are ticking all the boxes in your weekly running training schedule. Simply going out and doing a 5, 10 or 15km run each day at the same pace is not going to unlock your full running potential. It will likely get you over the line but if you are looking at stepping it up a notch or two you need…
Week four is done with a little bit of a mixture this week. Having done some longer tempo runs along with some walking to rest the legs in between these key runs. The last run of the week was the toughest being only 10.7km in distance but had just under 700m of elevation gain. This was a good test to see where the legs were at. After the last climb on this run my legs were cooked, especially as I…
Below we have gathered together a comprehensive list of terms you may encounter in the trail and running world. We had a lot of fun putting the A to Z Glossary of Trail Running Terms together, even learning a couple of new ones ourselves (plogging?! love it!). If there are any we have missed please leave a comment below! A Aid Station: Areas set up on the running course that have hydration and nutrition ready for competitors. How many aid…
Feeling Good Week three is done and dusted with the targets accomplished. The muscle soreness from the week before was not a factor this week. The muscles have adapted to the new/extra workload that I have put on them and are now noticeably a little stronger. I will look at increasing the elevation over the oncoming weeks along with the leg and buttock strength exercises. The week went as follows: DAY TRAINING DISTANCE ELEVATION Monday AM Easy run Ocean swim…
Building a Strong Foundation Week two of my training for trail running races has been banked with steady progressions. I am happy with how my body feels. My leg and buttock muscles have been sore from the extra work load with bigger elevation gains and also the leg exercises I’ve been performing regularly through the week. For me, feeling this soreness is a good thing. It is a good indication that I’m doing the right work to strengthen the areas…
As a newcomer to either running or trail running the question over what type of shoe you need to invest in and whether there really is much difference between them often comes up. The debate over trail running shoes vs running shoes does bring in several good arguments with many factors to consider. Where to Start? When starting out, a good supportive running shoe will be fine for smooth, relatively easy trails but when the trails get more technical there…
Adventures Abroad The transition from triathlon to trail running occurred more from circumstances beyond my control than from choice. In saying that, it has been a positive and welcomed change in direction. When we moved to Portugal from the Gold Coast, Australia we began to notice a large trail running community here around Cascais. I was keen to return to some physical activity that I could tolerate after a long spell of rest due to a back injury. I was…