When I decided to take up running all I could think of was my exciting new hobby, the ‘new me’, the wealth of health benefits which I would reap by running in the parks, carefree and healthy with a newly sculpted fabulous body moving majestically at blinding speeds. Alright, maybe not blinding...
When I first started running I was all out but I didn’t know how to do some things. Running should be simple and yet there were common running questions. Important questions that many new runners ask that I really needed answers to. Basic things to know when you start running. I wanted to run, I...
Running is a high impact sport. We thunder and pummel the ground with each step, sometimes for very long miles. Most runners simply never think of injuries, but then, like it or not, running injury does happen. Some even say that running is basically loads of injury time with some running thrown...
Runners and stretching. Some say ‘yes’, some say ‘no’, some ‘maybe’. For some it works, some believe it doesn’t work for them, some don’t care either way and do it whenever, if ever, they feel like it. Some preach the benefits, some get injured due to the lack of stretching but never attribute it...
We, the runners, participate in impact activity where we pummel the ground with our feet and send shockwaves throughout the body. Body doesn’t like shocks and the moment will come when the alarm will ring and we might get injured. Not the most comforting intro into a running blog but there you go....
I sometimes think back of my age of innocence when I began to run. I had nearly no knowledge of anything associated with beginner's running, all I thought was ‘put some shoes on and run’. No idea of the gear, food, training plans, hydration, types of running, let alone something called stretching....