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!
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....
Modern life can be a hectic affair and sometimes the best plans need tweaking, changing and even cancelling. Our running is part of it. There are days when we need to work out schedules around running and sometimes it can all become too much, our running can suffer from distractions so something...