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Listen to your body - what it really means

By admin on May 31, 2013

Listen to your body. A phrase that was probably first uttered in a running context by someone smart, like George Sheehan, but has been rendered meaningless by repetition and lack of understanding. A session last week with one of my top gurus, running coach and Alexander Technique teacher Malcolm Balk, reminded me that there is […]

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Correct Toes in the UK

By admin on May 30, 2013

If you have spent much of your adult life wearing shoes, it’s unlikely that your feet are as strong and mobile as they were designed to be. Perhaps your toes are all scrunched together… or you can’t make your little toe move at all… Maybe you’ve got stiff inflexible forefeet or are starting to develop […]

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The ‘should I run or rest?’ test

By admin on February 8, 2012

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 […]

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The skill of barefoot running

By admin on July 6, 2011

The idea of running barefoot - or in barely-there minimal shoes - struck a chord with me right from the very first time I tried it, back in 2007. I was a participant in one of John Woodward’s Natural Running weekends in the Lake District when I first liberated my feet, and after that, I […]

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Something’s afoot

By admin on April 28, 2011

One step forwards, two steps backwards… No, it’s not a new drill I’ve invented, it’s the story of my return to running after my battle with plantar fascitis. Having taking tentative steps towards building up my training again, I’ve heeded the advice of the experts I’ve been working with and had a corticosteroid injection into the […]

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