The runbritain handicap gives runners of all abilities the chance to record their progress and compare their results across a variety of distances and terrains.
Over the coming weeks, Nick Bishop will share his thoughts and start developing the theme of conditioning your mindset to deliver peak performance. Just like conditioning your body, conditioning your mind is about repeating specific exercises until you get stronger.
Just like conditioning your body, conditioning your mind is about repeating the same “exercise” until you get stronger. Your specific ritual might differ, but the basic keys to conditioning your mind remain the same
Just like conditioning your body, conditioning your mind is about repeating the same “exercise” until you get stronger. Your specific ritual might differ, but the basic keys to conditioning your mind remain the same
Race Director, David Martin-Jewell is involved with the following events: Llanelli Half Marathon, Great Welsh Marathon / Great Welsh Half Marathon, JCP Swansea Half Marathon and the Cardiff Met Cardiff 10K. He offers his thoughts on the COVID-19 Pandemic and the chaos sweeping through the world of Road Racing:
If like me, you are becoming increasingly frustrated of being told and hearing that we are currently going through unprecedented and uncertain times, then I guess I am not alone. This statement is not intended to undermine the importance of the situation, rather to express frustration with the potential circumstances we are likely to face in the coming days. With daily suggestions and guidance being provided by governments in the UK and across the globe, some which still requires detail, and some would say, the guidance needs to be firmer, I really feel that we are lost at sea in a directionless boat.
The Belfast City Marathon was scheduled to take place this Sunday. For those that had been targeting the event, training plans and sessions will have changed and each will be coping with these changes in their own way. Eoghan Totten (handicap -4.4) is part of the Marathon Potential 2024 programme run by Athletics Northern ireland and supported by the Belfast City Marathon. Here he writes to those who were due to run in Belfast and reminds us that "we runners are resilient".
Recently, Scott Jenkins, a Welsh ultra endurance athlete from South Wales, became the First person from Wales person to complete one of the world's longest and toughest ultra marathons - The Moab 240, a 244 mile non-stop footrace around the deserts and mountains of Utah, USA.
