Positive and wishful thinking
There’s often talk about developing a positive, optimistic approach yet many runners don’t. Here I try and sift between optimism, pessimism, realism, wishful and positive thinking.
The Learning Process
As a coach it’s easy to forget what it’s like to know little-to-nothing or be low on skills. It’s always useful to get a reminder of how learning is a cumulative process taking places across the weeks.
Review of the year – 2021
Always good to take a bird’s eye view of the year in retrospect and pick out what’s been going on. For me, this has mostly been a year of improving my endurance to support harder training next year.
Update on my 800m training – Nov-Dec 2021
Training for the 800m has moved into a traditional mix of endurance and hilly parkrun courses. I’ve knocked over a minute off my parkrun and run a 10K.
Dealing with going anaerobic
More detail about anaerobic energy, how the body handles it and how this impacts your training.
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About Me
Hi, I’m Hugh – coach at Big Red Running. I’ve been running seriously since I turned 40 but first raced in the 1990s. Before that I spent my teenage years getting lost orienteering in forests and moorland in the depths of winter!
Big Red Running 