Marathon Training Tips in Six Easy Steps - Step 2

Photograph Quiz:

Photo no 110:- well actually no photo but an answer. An answer Blog!!

               Olympic Rings revisited   … yes, if you check my letter to you about the rings Blog, you will have spotted that it was Melbourne which broke the mould and did a different arrangement!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope you haven’t lost that letter from 8th April??? OLYMPIC RINGS. Look carefully at the Melbourne logo and you will see what I mean. Now it will only be another minimum of 30 Olympiads before all my variations are used up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Blog,

You will have noticed from the above picture when compared to the first marathon tip that development has taken place after a month of steady effort. So the first month of advice is over, the foundation has been laid. Now is the time to introduce efficiency of effort whether you train once, twice or three times per day or once, twice or three times per week. Because there is life after athletics –

Rule 1:- Make sure most of your friends are NOT athletes.

Rule 2:- Get a life – stop talking about running, races athletics, athletes.

Rule 3:- Switch off all that rubbish about athletics on your computer.

Rule 4:-Slot training in, don’t waste a whole evening travelling to a running club, to change into kit, to go for a run, to shower and change after training, to go into the club house for a chat, to travel home from the running club …… why not run to and from work to save time …. Why not go out for a run as soon as you come home from work … and you have a whole evening to live a ‘normal’ life, to do what you want away from athletics.

Rule 5:-To save time why not wear you next set off training kit under your normal clothes … the amount of time you can save is amazing. Try it Blog.

Rule 6:- Make training pleasant. Choose nice surroundings. Avoid training as soon as you get up in the morning, give your body time to wake up before you go out. Wear enough clothes to keep warm in the winter and keep cool in the summer.

Rule 7:- From what I said last time about adaptation, chuck all those expensive silly sports drinks away. Get your body used to operating without liquid. Depravation leads to adaptation. You heard that first here Blog. DEPRAVATION LEADS TO ADAPTATION. Wear a little extra kit to over sweat to get the body used to the heat of competition. DEPRAVATION LEADS TO ADAPTATION. If you must have a recovery drink after a workout, try a splash of orange diluted with a little salt and a little fructose!!!!!

                                                              Colin