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After the 5km time-trial, the week before, we now prepared towards the 10km which would take place on the 20th July in Playa Blanca. This article follows on from - Intro to the athlete AB. I have been given permission to write a warts and all blog about the ups and...
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The end April this year; 2013, I approached a local athlete on the island of Lanzarote (and it is with her permission that I am writing this blog) with the intention of training her. One of the main ideas behind this, was that I knew my wife would be needing a...
One of the successes of the 10k Training Programs that I would like to mention is MMS. Marcelo resides in Brazil and came onto The Training Zone forums in 2009. His first post under the title - Improving 10k with regular training was as follows: "I started running on...
COACHING
Heart rate and training zones – An article based on experience and hopefully helpful in you understanding your own heart rate training zones better.
CHAT
After the Copenhagen Marathon, MrsDuck prepared for a race through the streets of Ystad in the South of Sweden, some 60km from Malmo. The Wallanderloppet, is run over a distance of 6km and finishes at the town square. The race is normally held in July, and on this...
OPINION
Over the last couple of months, 2013, is proving to be a successful year in catching the dopers. The extent of the Russian 'doping scandal' becomes more evident as more and more cheaters are exposed via the retesting of samples from 2005. Before the London Olympics,...
RUN
Heart rate and training zones – An article based on experience and hopefully helpful in you understanding your own heart rate training zones better.
NEWSFEED
MARATHON
In 1984, a certain Steve Jones of Wales, made his debut in Chicago, in one of the most competitive fields assembled after the LA Olympics. Jones went on to set a world record of 2:08:05. The following year he returned to win again in 2:07:13 (missing Carlos Lopes WR...
Heart rate and training zones – An article based on experience and hopefully helpful in you understanding your own heart rate training zones better.
After the 5km time-trial, the week before, we now prepared towards the 10km which would take place on the 20th July in Playa Blanca. This article follows on from - Intro to the athlete AB. I have been given permission to write a warts and all blog about the ups and...
After the Copenhagen Marathon, MrsDuck prepared for a race through the streets of Ystad in the South of Sweden, some 60km from Malmo. The Wallanderloppet, is run over a distance of 6km and finishes at the town square. The race is normally held in July, and on this...
Tatyana McFadden - winner of both the Boston and London marathons this week .. hats off to the US family who adopted her .. Long live the Brave Background: Abandoned by her Russian birth parents in an orphanage, McFadden walked on her hands for the first six years of...
