Getting Involved In The Sport Relief Mile?

If you are in the UK, it probably can’t have slipped your attention that Sport Relief is almost upon us again. We’ve seen cricketer Freddie Flintoff attempt multiple obscure world records. We’ve seen Liverpool comedian John Bishop’s ‘Week of Hell’, cycling, rowing and running 290 miles in 5 days. And there are countless other people all doing their own thing to raise money for Sport Relief.

The Inaugural ‘Run For Pounds’ Huddersfield 10K Review

Last Sunday saw the second of my series of 10K races for 2012. My general aim is to try and complete twelve races at 10K or longer during the year, and hope I can do so without getting injured again. So this latest venture was the ‘Run For Pounds’ Huddersfield 10K, organized by the local football club in support of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance and the youngsters in the Huddersfield Town Academy. Great causes to support, so I was pleased to be taking part.

Huddersfield 10K 2012 Review

On Sunday I finally lined up to start my first 10K race after eight months out due to injury. It was not an easy journey back, and the final week before the Huddersfield 10K was a bit of a roller-coaster. In fact, I was still unsure about whether to take part until the day before. It is worth mentioning that this particular event is one of the toughest road races in the region. So perhaps it was not the ideal start to a season trying to make a comeback from calf injuries. Or to spin it the other way, perhaps it was just the perfect way to test out whether I was fit enough – after all, if I could get around that course, I’ll be able to handle almost any course in the future! Here’s my Review.

Where Did All The Female Sports Personalities Go?

For those of you who didn’t know, every year the BBC runs a competition called the BBC Sports Personality of the Year. It started out in 1954 and has seen winners from a wide variety of sports. On the whole, men dominate this award ceremony, but in general the shortlist includes a good proportion of Britain’s best female sports stars. This week saw the unveiling of the whittled down shortlist of the ten candidates for this prestigious and well-promoted televsion event for 2011. It seemed odd immediately that all ten of the challengers this year are men. And given some of the achievements of the ladies this year, it begs the question: where did all the female sports personalities go?

Jane Tomlinson’s Leeds 10K 2011 Review

The inaugural Jane Tomlinson 10K took place in June 2007 and so there was an air of expectation that this year’s 5th Anniversary event was going to be a big one. Happily, that turned out to be the case, despite torrential rain, with around 9000 runners, walkers, wheelchair racers and various assorted fancy-dress wearers, from giant chickens and people with dayglo green afros, to Fred Flintstone carrying his car around the 10K course. This mass participation event was devised to be a huge charity fundraiser, aimed at raising money for children’s and cancer charities, so it truly continues to be a ‘Run For All.’

Seven Seas Humber Bridge 10K 2011 Review

The Humber Bridge 10K road race is an annual event organized by the City of Hull Athletic Club, which starts from Hessle Rugby Club on the north bank of the Humber estuary, proceeds through the streets for almost 2 km before joining the East pathway of the iconic suspension bridge – the fifth longest in the world. After reaching the far end at Barton, the route then switches to the West pathway for the return leg, and retraces the road route back, to finish at the rugby club. I decided to have a go at it this year as I thought it would be pretty neat to do a 10K which was mainly over water, rather than the usual running around city center streets.

Avoiding Runner’s Nipple – Clothing, Nipguards And Barrier Products

When you do a lot of running, and interact with other runners, the subject of injuries crops up lamentably often. Most of the time, especially for the long distance people, the chatter is about terrible blisters, or sore muscles. Other fairly common problems which crop up are more serious, such as ankle, knee or hip pains, which should all be looked into to find out the causes and correct them. But one ‘injury’ is hardly ever talked about but is surprisingly common, albeit a little unusual – runner’s nipple. Also known by a variety of other name’s such as jogger’s nipple, or whichever sport you happen to be into (eg. surfer’s nipple, etc) this is a pretty irritating and painful problem to run into.

Parkrun UK – Ideal For A Fun Run Or Race Training

One of the things that adds to the mental challenge of running is often the prospect of doing it alone, especially in bad weather or when you’ve had a rough day and would rather just flop onto the couch and watch the TV instead. Having a running partner or joining a running club is a great way to get motivated, as you will undoubtedly be expected to show up if you promised you would go out with your exercise buddies. My running partner and I do not live in the same town these days so we meet up for races instead. What he did tell me about recently though is Parkrun, which is a free weekly 5K event open to everybody.

Achieve Injury Free Running And Fast Weight Loss By Improving Your Technique

One of my recent articles provided a series of running tips to help injury-prone runners modify their technique in order to get faster and with less aches and pains. In this post, I decided to share some of my own personal training successes which I have achieved by forcing myself to run differently, the main ones being injury free running for the last two months, and some seriously fast weight loss. In short, I found one book which has totally transformed every aspect of my run training, and so I thank its author, coach Ken Mierke, for introducing me to the concept of Evolution running.