This category lists articles that offer experienced runner’s tips and advice on how to maintain running motivation, stay on track and keep going to improve your long term physical and mental health.
Giving up for petty reasons is not an option! Things like boring runs and recurring boredom while running can be overcome, so can laziness and common everyday excuses. Even advanced age is not a barrier to running if you listen to your body. Every runner can achieve whatever goals they set, at whatever stage of their life. Adapt and keep going!
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...
Runners and non-runners alike are a very opinionated bunch when it comes to the topic of running. There are some well-known truths about running that ‘everyone knows’ and some are so ‘common’ that nothing can change them. New runners sit around the fire like wide-eyed students and listen to old...
Running is basically very simple. One leg, then another, faster than walking. Easy. But if we look closer there will be certain categories of runners. Different running styles and types of runners. Some of us are happy to stick with our chosen type but are also happy to wander off into other...
Being motivated when planning to go out running long is quite different to being motivated just before the run. And very different to staying motivated while running. Professionals don’t need such motivation. Running is their life, they are paid to run. They are motivated to win. We, amateur...
People run solo, people run in groups. Some train in groups but race solo. Or train in groups and race in relays. Or…...nevermind, you get the point. I run solo but I have run with friends. When I’m out there I will see lone runners but I'll also cross paths with a couple of people running...
In the beginning I thought I should try and join a running club to learn more about running. Instead I started to run alone, and carried on my own. I simply got to like it that way from the start. It felt good and natural, I felt at ease. Running in a group with others, especially more experienced...
Each running journey starts with a desired goal, something we haven’t done before, something we are keen to accomplish. Something to strive toward. A beginner runner who is very young and talented may dream of the Olympic glory. A 52 year bloke who I was when I started running may be a bit...
I read that professional marathon runners train twice daily, six days per week in general. They are the people who will run the marathon in 2.15hr and below. Their speed is simply insane and incomprehensible for amateur runners. They plan their lives, their lives revolve around running, they are...
Once we have decided that running will be our way of getting fitter and healthier we start feeling positive and content. Next we shop around for shoes, clothes and some accessories, it’s part of the fun. The choice between running in the gym or outdoors has been made. There is now nothing between...
We all know that runners of any shape, form, age and skill enjoy many benefits of running. But what precisely are they? I'm one of those people who swapped sedentary lifestyle and took up running in my fifties. I was told by my friendly doctor that I should 'work on my cardio' and pick a pastime...
Before I became a runner I lived and explored London by usual London means. Either sitting in road traffic on a red double-decker or inside my car, or travelling on busy trains or the packed Tube. Outside the rush-hour and at weekends train travel was a bit easier but car journeys would take...
Benefits of running, mental as well as physical, are well known and are the main reason why many take up running. From that starting point onwards we all take different journeys. Many will be happy to jog several times per week or maybe explore their limits by following various running programs....