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Carbohydrate Drinks – Spit or Swallow?

peteh — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:16:20 +0000

Everyone knows that carbohydrate drinks can enhance performance, but new research suggests that actually swallowing your favourite sports drink might not be necessary. Strange as it sounds, you can rinse your mouth, spit the drink on the ground and still be faster!

The Land Rover Malta Marathon

Katharine — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:05:55 +0000

One of our Club members, Rebecca Parry recently ran in The Land Rover Malta Marathon and very kindly sent us this report. Perhaps it is an event we should arrange a Club trip to next year, particularly if we have the same bitterly cold weather as we had this year! The Malta Marathon went really well [...]

Will I Lose My Fitness?

peteh — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:16:21 +0000

This question from Katie, one of our subscribers, is not unusual and it seems to be that runners are scared that they will fall way behind with their training should they have to curtail their programme for any length of time. I hope that should you read this it will give you some encouragement. QUESTION: Hi, I’m training for [...]

Running is Not Rocket Science – So Why Make it So?

peteh — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:21:11 +0000

Why is it that many of the specialist running magazines have the tendancy to make running appear to be a sport for those people who have the IQ of a Nuclear Scientist? Running is far from being complicated so why make it appear so?