My Kit Bag – Harvey Gallagher
What’s In My Kit Bag Running Shoes ‘Always black and white.’ Always Adidas, ever since I was at primary school. It was just what everyone wore, especially Samba, and now they’re retro, it seems!. I’m Read More
2018
Choosing the Best Place to Run
Choosing the best place to run will have an enormous impact on your timing and health. I’ve been lucky enough to have run in a few places around the world. I have my favourites, but Read More
Strength Training – How It Can Help Your Running
Strength Training If you really want to improve your performance while running then consider doing strength training. By slipping in various strength training exercises into your weekly work out you can increase muscle mass, reduce Read More
The Importance of Stretching, And The Ones You Should Be Doing
The importance of stretching before and after your run is cannot be stressed enough. Imagine a football player getting out of bed and jumping straight into a 90 minute game of football. Just think of Read More
Runner or cyclist? Cyclist or runner?
Finding time for both in your life I run, and I cycle. I cycle, and I run. Every week. Since I got too old to play football (too many injuries!), I’ve done both. Unlike football, Read More
Cross Training – Mix Up Your Training
Cross Training is one of those many things that people say they’re going to do but don’t end up doing. You hear all of the benefits and think, ‘nah, that’s just for injury rehabilitation, I’m Read More
Five Reasons to Take Up Running
Reasons to Take Up Running Are you thinking about taking up running? Maybe you have seen people running a marathon and thought, I could do that. Or perhaps you’ve spotted runners in your local park Read More
Size Doesn’t Matter – Weight and Gender Do Not Define you
Why my Weight and Gender Do Not Define Me as a Runner Women on the Run If you look around you at this moment in time, you can see significant changes are happening with women. Read More
Five Signs You’re Overdoing It While Running
How to know when you’re overdoing it while running? Wouldn’t it be great if we could run all day every day? Unfortunately, we are not machines, and unless you are Forest Gump, it’s likely that Read More
Running Hills – Why the Only Way is Up
Why The Only Way is Up A quick Google search will tell you that running hills is a great way to improve cadence, strength, power, and endurance, but as I took a look at that Read More