February 2012
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Pogu Ice Spikes - on trial
The recent snow and ice presented the perfect opportunity to try out the Pogu ice spikes I’ve had languishing in a cupboard for a couple of months. They fit over your shoes, with a flexible rubber harness over the top and mean-looking metal spikes under the forefoot and heel. A velcro strap fastens them into place. [...]
The ‘should I run or rest?’ test
I spoke to dozens of budding marathoners over the weekend at the Virgin London Marathon Meet the Experts weekend - and many of them were carrying niggles, or worse. The question came up time and time again… ‘am I OK to run on this?’ (usually after they’d just explained that they’d done 14 miles on it [...]
Sports massage works
Sports massage has always been part of my injury prevention and recovery strategy – and now a new study, from McMaster University in Canada, suggests that the benefits aren’t just psychological. In the study, cyclists rode to exhaustion and then had one leg massaged while the other was left alone. Biopsies were taken from the [...]
Master the Marathon Workshop
If you are training for a spring marathon, my Master the Marathon workshop, taking place on Sunday February 12th 2012 at Crystal Palace National Sports Centre will help you make the best use of your precious training time and avoid injury, so your race-day performance is the best it can be. The full day workshop is [...]