Middle Pack

I am finally get round to blogging again. This is just a quick catch up on what has been happening over the winter period.

The Valley Striders managed for the second time in their history to field a team for the FRA relays. Hopefully the start of a few more regular appearances in these type of events.
My only experience of a fell relays previously is the Calderdale way. This is far better than that! Firstly all runners start and [...]

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 [...]