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Running shoes are a highly personal choice, but all runners need to be mindful about when they buy new trainers
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Learning when to stop has been an important lesson for me as I strive to slay the Dragon You know the person that always says hi, is permanently perky, doesn’t shut up giving positive affirmations and constantly tries to cheer other people up? Well that’s me. Mostly. Being an eternal optimist has always stood me
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Self-motivation is a powerful tool, but there are times when you need people in your corner to give you the push you need. I’ve been having a hard time seeing the wood for the trees these past few weeks. I’ve been cautiously monitoring a niggle in my back, and there have been situations in life
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Running heroes doing the sport justice Off the back International Women’s Day I feel it’s important to celebrate women and the great stuff they do all year round. I mean, I’m a mum all the time, so where Mother’s Day is just a tokenism – I hope that I’m appreciated the rest of the time
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Some weeks it just doesn’t go to plan, even with the best will in the world. Many of you will be able to relate to the struggle of balancing busy lives with some form of training programme (in my case, training is very fluid!) These past few weeks I’ve been on child taxi duty for
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When running for others brings hope I had a phone call last week. It was from the fundraising coordinator for Macmillan Cancer Support. “Hi, is that Laura? I just wanted to let you know that you were one of our biggest fundraisers last year.” She’d called to let me know that I’d raised, with Gift
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It’s not just a hobby anymore – training has to be a lifestyle choice As the dial on the treadmill sped up to 8 miles an hour and the sweat dripped from my brow, I wondered what exactly it was that drove me to get on the damn thing at 9.30pm in the first place.
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Learning that anything is within your grasp on Day 4 of Dragon’s Back Race with RAW Adventures A week before I ran in the Elan Valley with a bunch of fellow Dragons in Training, I’d managed to convince myself that perhaps this was all a bit above my station. I’m not a professional fell runner,
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The weather forecast was reading “feels like -1” and I’ve been fooled by mountains before. A ‘run’ up Scafell Pike for my 40th birthday gave me at least a flavour of how weather conditions can turn on a sixpence. That day we’d stopped short of summiting, mainly due to the fact that I was wearing
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Show me a runner who stretches religiously and I’ll show you ten who don’t. And me. My personal trainer (I go once a week for a HIIT session) used to mock my hamstring stretch as being pitiful at best. It was only after taking up the obvious complementary sport for runners; arial hoop, that the
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