Monthly Archives: March 2011

Sports Science

In my relentless drive to try to understand about energy systems, running style etc. I stumbled across this site http://www.sportsscientists.com/.  Its a blog from a couple of Sports Scientists who did their research for Professor Noakes in South Africa.

They have some interesting articles of running economy, barefoot running and other issues. Read more

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Broughton Runners Session 29/3/2011

We were back to our Summer training ground last night.  We have a disused railway and a very interesting bit of parkland that we use most of the time.

Next week we will do the time trial for the first time this year, so last night’s session was a bit of familiarisation.  Read more

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LOC Saturday Coaching 26/3/2011

Today’s session was on relocation, a topic that most orienteers have to worry about at some time.

We had 10 senior orienteers with a wide range of experience and age.  Coaching Derek Allison and Carol McNeill is always an interesting experience. Read more

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Athletics Endurance Day

I spent Saturday 19th March 2011 in Carlisle on a UKAthletics Endurance day, tutor Stephen Pearson from Horwich RMI.

We covered a pretty wide range of topics.  The one that I found most thought provoking was the idea that you should link all training sessions to one of the three energy systems. Read more

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Welcome to my new blog

Hi

Glad you managed to find this blog.

I’m planning to use this to keep a track of things that I do that are related to coaching.  I coach orienteering, fell-running and other running activities.  I have coaching qualifications in all of these (L2 for Fell running and S&C and old L3 for Orienteering), but I am more practised in some areas than others. Read more

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