Using Your Arm Power – 5 weeks to go

I hope your Ciry2Surf preparation is going well. If you’ve been following along with my training plan, you should be feeling a lot fitter by now. The last two weeks we have been working on improving your speed by concentrating on lifting the knees when doing fartlek work and improving your breathing technique. The third key to improving performance is in the arms. When we think of running,...
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Injury slows me down

Yesterday I did a morning run as per schedule but not the run I’d planned. I should be into the heavy part of my City2Surf training by now, but due to my sore foot I’ve had to cut back so I don’t risk making it worse. Yesterday’s run should have been a 10km on a hilly route but I ended up doing a fairly slow 7k jog around the lake. My schedule calls for a 13km run on...
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