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Marathon des Sables – starting your training
You’ve entered the 2014 MdS and you need to start training. How do you begin?
First think – how do I want to do?
- Just get round
- Get round but feel good
- Get round and do well
- Win
Then think – what do I know about how it feels to run day after day? Read more
Core training video
Posted in Fell-running, General, Marathon des Sables, Orienteering, Strength and Conditioning
Tagged Bridge, core stability, Plank
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Marathon des Sables – a coach’s perspective
The end of the journey
At 11.32:11 on Saturday 13th April 2013 Martin and Angela White crossed the final finishing line of the Marathon des Sables. They had run and walked 232 Km across the rocks, mountains and dunes of Morocco in an overall time of 46H35’18”. Read more
Posted in Fell-running, General, Marathon des Sables
Tagged downhill, kielder marathon, marathon des sables, periodisation, uphill
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Marathon des Sables training – two competitors’ views
We are writing this trying to process the most intense, insane, painful, joyful week of our lives. A week in which, both of us finished the 28th Marathon des Sables.
We are confident that in the subconscious of every MdS participant there is a small but very real flicker of doubt. Read more
Posted in Fell-running, General, Marathon des Sables
Tagged downhill, marathon des sables, MdS, Strength and Conditioning, uphill
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IAAF Standardised Session Shorthand
There is an IAAF shorthand for writing down session plans and it can be found here.
It pretty much assumes that the training is done on a track as it works on distances and times. A little more work would be needed to include inclines (hills). Read more
Posted in Fell-running, General, Orienteering
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Strength and Conditioning for Juniors
I am collecting information about introducing juniors to Strength and Conditioning, specifically resistance work.
This link shows the Australian Strength and Conditioning Association’s view as of 2007.
I will add further links as I find them. Read more
Posted in Fell-running, General, Orienteering, Strength and Conditioning
Tagged Strength and Conditioning
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Long Term Athlete Development – the Canadian Model
It appears that Canadian Sport has taken a long hard look at Long term Athlete Development and bought into the concept completely. Lynne Walker sent me a number of links to do with this area.
The first is the link to the overall website, here. Read more
Posted in Fell-running, General, Orienteering, Sports Science
Tagged athletics, canada, long tem athlete development, LTAD, Orienteering
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Minibus Driving without a D1
This is a slightly unusual post for my blog, but it impacts on both sports I take part it, especially for the student population and those that want to share minibus transport.
I was under the impression that you couldn’t drive a minibus without the D1 minibus licence. Read more
Posted in Fell-running, General, Orienteering, Other Coaching Areas
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Grid References and Post Codes
There is a useful website that helps convert Grid References to Postcodes. See www.gridreferencefinder.com to go from Post Code to Grid Reference, and to a certain extent Grid Reference to Post Code. Also useful for Latitude and Longitude.
There are facilities that give you Grid Reference direct from Streetmap.co.uk. Read more
Posted in Fell-running, General, NavNight, Orienteering
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How to find a OS Grid Reference
The website http://magic.defra.gov.uk allows you to point at a point on an OS map and it returns the grid reference.
The tool is on the top left hand side of the toolbar, it looks like a grid with a question mark in it. Read more
Posted in Fell-running, General, Orienteering
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