Your chance to ask the experts at McCarkiss about running related matters, and get some kind of response!
Submit your questions to the team at: http://mccarkisselite-project.co.uk/ask-mccarkiss/
Name: Seymour Butts Email: bell@end.com Question: Why are no other team members on the profile page for PBs etc. When is the 2.29 marathon report coming out? Answer: At McCarkiss we’re proud of our heritage, namely two self indulgent, egotistical founding members, one of whom has been as distant from a decent running performance or blog…
Question: If you have trained well for a half marathon (40-50 miles a week, couple of speed sessions a week, couple of longer runs) for several weeks what would you do in the week leading up to the event? Complete rest? Bit of race pace mileage? Answer: The MCKEP record HM time of 1:11:33 (correct at…
Following on from last weeks highly successful guest editorial from Colin, we bring you the follow up; “Why are there so few of those guys?” The dearth of younger runners has been going on for years. As far back as 1980 I noted that running was becoming an older man’s sport. The question is difficult…
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…
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.…
Question: I can’t believe for one second you were a chubber – can I ask what you used to look like …? Answer: Of course you can – Interestingly, both of MCKEPs top athletes have a past history of being overweight through over-indulgence. Whilst both athletes still have the tendencies of their former fat…
Question: I would like to know what the effects of training in high humidity conditions (97 – 100%) for 3 weeks are. I believe this may be comparable to training at altitude. I’m not aware of any meta study on this phenomenon but I speculate (maybe even theorise) that he effects are similar. Can anyone…