How do you deal with the final nervous days before your big run??! With this guest post on Running Fit Box blog I want to help you work through and answer some of the normal questions that you will have to face in the days leading up to your next running event. Questions like "should I be carb-loading," "have I done enough training" and more!
Head over to the awesome Running Fit Box website to check out my guest post on this issue.
Enjoy!!
The awesome guys at Nokkon have done a list of 10 things to consider with your running form. This post is number 6 on the list and focuses on one of the least considered areas of running form, I believe, head position.
When we think about running form, head position is often towards the bottom of the list of things we look at, but it is actually very important for our body alignment, as well as our overall attitude.
Head over to the awesome Nokkon website to check out this contribution.
Whether you're stuck in a rut with your running at parkrun or anywhere else, there are ways to break through it. I chatted to Baroness of Melbourne, Danielle about what to do when this awful ‘rut' strikes.
Head over to the awesome Baroness of Melbourne blog to check out this guest post.
If you are a mum who feels guilty for running, this blog is for you!
"Gen is a former colleague of mine and when we met for coffee, we chatted about her running. She explained how she struggles to find time to run but also, that when she does have the time, she feels horrendously guilty. She is a mum of two young boys and works part time for a health charity. She doesn’t want to leave the kids and feels that she should be taking care of them, entertaining them, doing some work or one of a million other things that are on her mind. The end result? She bought a treadmill for the house, so she didn’t have to leave!"
Read the whole article on the Mouths of Mums website
A few weeks ago when I asked people what the number one challenge for beginner runners was, several people responded with injuries of various types. Amongst the most popular (wrong word, I know!) was the dreaded shin splints. As I promised at the time, I will be following up on your responses and getting opinion and expertise to help us overcome these challenges for beginner runners. So, I asked Sally Maple from Port Melbourne Physio and Pilates to give me some expert advice on shin splints, what they are, why they occur and how we can treat them. Here goes….
So what are shin splints?
A few weeks ago I decided to reach out to the running community and ask a simple question that I needed help answering. I posted the following question on the Go Run Australia Facebook page and could not believe the response that it got.
What is / was your #1 single, biggest challenge when you started running?
Now we’ve all been there as beginners, even some of the fastest runners you know probably began with those awkward, embarrassing first runs / walks and suffered from the same things that we do, but even with that in mind, i did not expect people of all experiences, shapes, sizes, abilities, ages to contribute to this debate. I don’t know what I expected to be honest, but certainly not the detail and emotive comment that I got back. The responses really shocked me in to action and I want to try and address the issues that were raised over the coming weeks and months in my blogs. My hope is that these blogs will be able to help a few people in their own running journey whether they are just getting started, starting again or are seasoned veterans.
Today I am going to address the issue of wanting to go longer, harder and faster every time you run. This topic was prompted by Ruby, who said...
"For me (the number one challenge..) was the idea that I had to go longer and harder and faster every time. As soon as I was fit enough to run for 20 minutes I'd push for 30, then 40 the next week and so on, unsurprisingly I got injured and fatigued and decided that was a sign I just wasn't meant to be a runner."
