Preventing Running Injuries
I’m not a sports physio and I don’t like running injuries so I try my best to avoid them. Having said that, I have had a fair few, so if you have an injury, I can empathise with you. Running injuries usually come in the form of pains in the joints, pulled muscles, twisted ankles, stress fractures (such as shin splints), and tendinitis. And when you start to do longer distances, you may also get blisters and chaffing, (and chaffed nipples, which can be rather painful!). One of the important things I’ve learnt over the years...
read moreJogging and Running: What is the difference?
Less than 8 weeks to go and I’ve just done my Tuesday morning 8km jog that is on my City2Surf training plan (which you can download as a Google Calendar here). This is the last week of the warm up period of my training plan. If you have been following along with my routine, you should be starting to feel pretty conditioned to getting out and doing your regular morning activity. of the things you’ll notice about my training plan is that I refer to some activities as a jog and others as a run. There is a very important difference....
read moreWould you like a 35 minute run with that?
I love the health tip I got this morning from the Sun-Herald. This article is attributed to Shannan Ponton and Michelle Bridges, trainers from The Biggest Loser. They say that a medium serve of fries will take 35 minutes to run off or 1.5 hours to walk off. (And that is just to get you back to where you were before you ate the fries.) Plus, if you had a hamburger instead of a home made chicken and salad sandwich, you’d also put on an extra 100 calories, which would take a 28 minute walk to burn off. So next time someone says to you...
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