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10 top tips to prepare you for a race

If you havenโ€™t raced before, it sounds daunting.  If you have, you know itโ€™s not easy.  So why do we do it? Because it makes us stronger, because itโ€™s rewarding and because it can be fun! If youโ€™re building to a big event, like a marathon or a sportive, itโ€™s a good idea to have[…]

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CPR for your training

Want to improve your training, get faster and avoid injury? Give yourself some CPR! Consistency So youโ€™re running or cycling regularly.  Good job (as they say in the US)!  Youโ€™re on the way to cracking a key secret of sporting success: consistency in training. Once youโ€™ve got your training routine locked in, it becomes easier. […]

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How to learn from training mistakes – without making any

Positive progress So weโ€™ve โ€œGot Honest & Got On Itโ€ to set our goals.ย  Go us!ย  We decided what we really wanted to achieve [insert your personal goal that youโ€™re really motivated by, here].ย  We’re excited and giving it a go.ย  ย Annoyingly itโ€™s so easy to get carried away in early enthusiasm, overdo it and[…]

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Get Honest & Get On It! The Recipe for Sporting Resolutions

How to make sporting resolutions

How to set goals If you want to set and achieve a sporting goal (or even any goal), Iโ€™ve got some tried, tested, sweated tips for you, gleaned from a large amount of trial, a good dollop of error and some sprinklings of success. Get honest The first and key step is to be super[…]