racing
Using caffeine for sports performance
There is little doubt that caffeine can have a beneficial effect on endurance running performance. But there’s more to getting a performance boost than glugging down a pre-race coffee. “A dose of around 3mg of caffeine per kg body weight is needed to have an ergogenic effect in endurance exercise,” says sports dietician Ruth McKean. [...]
Different stroke
I have had a lot of input into my swimming stroke over the last few years - I’ve improved my body position, my timing, my catch and recovery to the extent that I often get compliments on how graceful my stroke is. The only trouble is, it isn’t very fast. Even after more than two years [...]
What a load of scallops!
When it comes to racing, I like a nice straightforward event - not a big fan of these adventure-type races where you crawl through mud and so on… But the chance to race whilst pushing a wheelbarrow filled with scallop shells in my local town, Rye, could not be missed! The annual scallop race, part [...]
In the running
I raced for the first time in almost a year last Sunday. I’ve been holding off pinning on a race number (probably for longer than was necessary) for two reasons: firstly, to ensure I’d well and truly seen the back of my injury and secondly, because I needed to steel myself for the loss of [...]