The Great Manchester Run, 7 days later.
The Great Manchester Run, 7 days later.
A week ago today I took part in the first of 6 Great Run events in 2013 and I was in a bit of a state when I crossed the line in 46:01, 35 seconds faster than my previous 10 km race PB. If you look closely, I think you can just see that in [...]
Send Me a Quick Text, Please.
That’s a rather large picture, isn’t it? Well, don’t ignore it! I’ve grown to enjoy running a lot more since the early days of PeopleRun in 2010, but that doesn’t mean the training and racing is any less work than it was then. If anything, it means more work now that I’ve started following more [...]
Meeting My New Running Buddies
Back in April when the JustTextGiving Fittest Fundraiser competition opened, I was really looking forward to the prospect of meeting a new running buddy with whom I was going to share the journey throughout the project. I hadn’t bargained for two new running buddies, mind, and it was with great anticipation that I headed up [...]
What it feels like to run your first marathon
Running a marathon prepared is a far cry from running one (or attempting to) unprepared. A really obvious thing to say, I know, but it’s that context that I only fully appreciated in the week or two before the Amsterdam Marathon. My training had been far from smooth. The first 10 weeks were great, then [...]
You’ll never run a marathon until you do
Bad times running: October 2005 In October 2005, I tried to run the Amsterdam marathon but I failed when my knees blew out at around the 3 mile marker. I made as far as 10 miles at which point I had to drop out in agony and massively disappointed in myself. I’d been fundraising for [...]
Amsterdam: The Final Countdown
We’ve been pretty quiet over the summer while the training effort’s got into full swing for the big day on 21 October. The long runs have been run, the conditioning work has taken place and we’re now well into the tapering stage of training, when every long run gets shorter than the previous one. All [...]
Race Report: Remembering the Reading Half 2012
It’s been nearly a month since the Reading Half marathon and a write up of the event is well over due. However, rather than take the traditional approach to race reports I wanted to dedicate this post to two runners who have tragically lost their lives in the last few weeks, Ged Clarke and Claire [...]
PeopleRun’s Hitting the Streets of Milan
At PeopleRun, we’re all for people pulling on their running gear to tackle whatever challenge they can and Sim Bowsher is just about to take on a big one – the Milan Marathon on 15 April. On top of the Great South Run, a host of 10K runs and the Amsterdam Marathon later this year, [...]
Is It OK To Be A Fair Weather Runner?
As reasons for not going out for a run go, the weather has to be one of the most common. I’m writing this piece following a day of freakish weather conditions which saw sunshine, hail, heavy rain and snow all pass through Newbury in the space of a few hours. Every time I looked [...]
Time, Distance then Speed: Running Priorities for Beginners
If you’re just getting started on your running journey, chances are you’re measuring your progress by one of the following: Time – how long you can run for before you need to stop Distance – how far you can run before you need to stop Speed – how quickly you can run, or how long [...]
8 Running Tips For Beginners, From A Beginner
In the year or so since PeopleRun got started I’ve learned a fair bit about what it takes to keep me running. And, with several of us just having completed our first test of endurance – Janathon 2012 – I thought it would make sense to share some of these experiences of moving from a [...]
Meet Our Amsterdam Marathon 2012 Team
We’ve been delighted by the immediate response to the opening of registrations for the Amsterdam Marathon 2012 from prospective PeopleRun team members. The list below contains the names of everyone who has booked their race place, flights and hotels already and are now working backwards from race date (21 October) to plan out how they [...]
Amsterdam Marathon 2012 – Registrations Now Open
It may not be until October, but registrations have now opened for the Amsterdam Marathon 2012! The race marks the peak of our two year fundraising project for Naomi House children’s hospice and we’re getting a fantastic amount of interest from people who want to run and raise money with us. If you are up [...]
PeopleRun’s Training Tips: Keeping Thirst At Bay
Nicola Buckley is PeopleRun’s resident personal trainer and is here to help you to prepare for, perform in and recover from every run you do. Stay tuned for regular hints and tips and please, feel free to ask for advice or suggest future topics you would find useful! You’ve probably been told or heard how [...]
Race Report: 2011 Great South Run
What an amazing event the Great South Run is! Every one of our eight runners on 30 October loved it and some have already booked their place for next year’s race (see Facebook page for more pics, http://www.facebook.com/PeopleRun) By far the biggest race we’ve done so far as a group, both in terms of [...]
PeopleRun’s Training Tips: Stretching For Beginners
Nicola Buckley is PeopleRun’s resident personal trainer and is here to help you to prepare for, perform in and recover from every run you do. Stay tuned for regular hints and tips and please, feel free to ask for advice or suggest future topics you would find useful! Most of us, when we wake up [...]
PeopleRun’s Gear Guide: Are Fitness Apps Worth Using?
Some people swear by them, some people can’t see the point in them and, chances are, you’ve seen people posting from them in your Facebook or Twitter feed. Fitness apps are available for all smartphones and an ever increasing number of people are downloading and firing them up when they go out for a run. [...]
PeopleRun’s Training Tips: Have You Lost Your Running Mojo?
Whether you’re training for one run or a whole bunch, one thing you’re likely to experience is a loss of your running mojo. It’s that moment you feel you NEED to run instead or WANT to, when it becomes more of an obligation than a choice. If you’re just starting out on your running journey, [...]
PeopleRun EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Lemoncello Reviews AudioFuel
Andrew Lemoncello is one of the world’s top distance runners, with running achievements including finishing 8th in the 2010 London Marathon and a personal best 10km time of less than 28 minutes. In short, Andrew knows an awful lot about running, which is why we were delighted when he agreed to do an exclusive review [...]
PeopleRun’s Gear Guide: Buying Your First Running Shoes
At PeopleRun, we know how strange it might seem to non-runners when people start talking about getting the right shoes for the job and analysing the way you run. There’s a bit more to it than putting one foot in front of the other, so we spoke to Jonathan Midwood, General Manager of specialist running [...]