Middle Pack

The weather always seems to shine on the Rab Mountain Marathon!
After a cold friday night, runners are treated to a cloud inversion from the campsite as the cloud settled low into the valley covering Sedbergh. If you turned around the fells were basked in sunshine. It was 7.30am and it was already getting hot. Day [...]

This is the 2nd part of my series into changing running style. It will focus on the research around footwear, barefoot and minimal shoes vs motion control and cushioned fancy shoes. I will go into actual running technique in another post.
On delving round the internet I was quite amazed at the amount of peer reviewed [...]

At the weekend I took part in my first ever proper trail race. The Leeds Country way is a relay race for teams of 12 to run as pairs round the long distance footpath round Leeds. It is nicer than it sounds as most of it is woodland, fields, and tracks with the odd [...]

I have been reading loads about running barefoot recently. Every way I turn someone seems to be saying that we are all running wrong. Heel strike is out and midfoot/forefoot is the new black. This is the magic cure to chronic foot and ankle injuries. So on that basis I thought I would try it [...]

So what to do the day after a hard AL fell race? Well in our wisdom Andy and I sat in a pub in Sedbergh planning the next couple of days. We decided to have a go at a traverse of all 31 hills in the Howgills that are above 1500ft. This was first done [...]