Question: Ordered new Garmin FR220 with heart-rate monitor but was wondering if proper runners actually use a HRM? Answer: Firstly, I’m unsure of whether we/I constitute the term ‘proper runners’, but that aside we do enjoy running, and are probably a little more obsessive than most people we know, and also like to waffle on…
4 x 1.5m off 90 at 5:15/mi After a few days of recovery and recuperation (mincing in London, relaxing in the Lake District) there really was no excuse if the splits were missed today. They weren’t. 5:06/mi avg for 1.5m 5:09/mi avg for 1.5m 5:11/mi avg for 1.5m 5:06/mi avg for 1.5m The usual road route had been…
Week 6 sees the end of ‘threshold’ runs in this training cycle and the introduction of a very short two week period including VO2Max intervals, the purpose of which is merely a slight sharpening in fitness and speed having understood that the greatest effect of training VO2max comes in the short term, and that doing…
Well, week 5 is done – and surprisingly both athletes following the ground-breaking MCKEP 10k training program are reporting status = good. After struggling significantly during week 4 with tight, tired and unresponsive legs, the after-effects spilled into the early portion of week 5. Thursday’s threshold pace session at Draycote seemed something of a turning…
Please can you ask Colin Bricher to guest edit a column on this excellent blog? So we did…and of course there was only one subject, the decline in British distance running. So in a guest editotial that rivals the likes of Brand, Hitchens or Dawkins in the New Statesmen, we give you Bricher at MCKEP.…
Sometimes it’s nice to be able to report a story of success here at McCarkissElite Project… a heart warming story of guts and determination – fighting against the odds to overcome the impossible. When things are looking down, and the obstacles that line the path ahead seem insurmountable; undergoing that mental battle to say “Yes I…
This week we have special guest @Jillops covering off the MMRR review…. A Sunday night post half marathon massively unexpected PB recovery wine (due to lack of beer in the house thought I’d try this red stuff). I think it was the standard Tesco half price wine purchase for £5 down from £10, some kind of…
