Welcome to the May Issue of Trek and Run. New This Month - The Lake District 100km, The Rat Race Dirty Weekend, The Manchester Marathon, our 'Check Yourself' initiative plus...Coming Soon, review and film of the London to Edinburgh Cycle Road Trip!
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Latest Event Review & Film; The Manchester Marathon
I'd heard that this course was flat and fast but I didn't expect much of myself as it's been a tough winter. First a double hernia operation in December that took a while more than usual to recover from, then lack of time had meant that I hadn't run more than 20kms in one go for over 5 months. My plan was to stay with the 3.15 pacer team until around the 10 mile mark then drop back and try to finish in about 3.30. My PB is 3.21 but that was 2 years ago and I hadn't done better than 3.29 last year so I reckoned if I could get near that I'd be really happy. There was a short period of silence out of Read More...
Latest Event Review & Film; Rat Race Dirty Weekend
I've done a few Rat Race events, they have always organised things really well in the past and have a well earned reputation for enabling ordinary people such as myself to complete what some would consider extraordinary events. So although I never do any upper body work at all in my training I felt pretty confident that I could complete this event, the world's largest assault course. We pre-booked all our entries/tickets a few months before the event. This wasn't going to be a race, entrants would start in waves, 15 minutes apart, to make sure the obstacles didn't get too clogged up. We managed to get on wave 4, the first 3 Read More...
Latest Article; Organic, Ethical, Sustainable - RAW MILK!
This month I’ve been trying to find out more about milk. It’s been a major part of my diet for many years, and I’ve been raised to believe that it’s a great source of protein and calcium. Like most active people, I've been told that milk is an essential foodstuff to consume if we're to keep our muscles and bones healthy. Recently I’ve been watching a fair few videos that show horrific abuse on dairy farms towards the animals. I’ll show you two here. It’s important you watch them, at least as much as you can stand. There are literally hundreds of videos online that show similar scenes. Read More...
Salomon City Trail – No Traffic. No Tarmac. No Boundaries. Trail running is one of the UK’s fastest growing sports and Salomon is offering recreational runners the chance to try it out at a series of free events this summer. It’s a great way to discover a trail in your own city. Sport England’s sixth annual Active People survey recorded a ‘statistically significant increase in sports participation’ with over 750,000 adults participating than the previous year. Thanks in large part to the Olympic Games, more people are keeping active and looking for new ways to do so. Read More...
Our Racing Year; The 'Check Yourself' Initiative..
We Trek and Runners' take part in a lot of athletic events, the sort that people often do whilst at the same time raising funds for worthy causes. I personally haven't asked people to sponsor me before though, for a couple of reasons. The first is that, as a sports 'journalist', I often get invited to events at the last minute, so I don't have the time to publisize what I'm doing. The second is, that I do a fair few events per year, and I worry that people would tire of me saying every month 'I'm running a marathon next week, can you sponsor me?' I ran 12 marathons last year, you see, and I'm likely to do much the same this Read More...
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