Mid-day snacking: What to reach out for when you experience the mid-day lull.
It's post lunch on a work day and you are trying to keep the sandman away. While you are battling with this, it seems like your mind is also telling you that some ice-cream or chocolate, or anything sweet, will be a fantastic choice to boost your productivity for...
6 Tried And Tested Approaches To Recovery
In athletics, recovery is part of training. It is when you recover well that you are able to push through another tough session. It is when you recover well that you become stronger. There is an array of options for you to choose from when it comes to recovery....
Losing Motivation? Here Are 5 tips To Keep You Training, Running and Racing!
We runners dream big. We want to tackle a new distance. We want to hit a new personal best. We want to lose more weight. We human loves progress. We love to see progress. So what happens when we start to plateau? The progress curve is never exponential. People...
The Fastest Family On The Planet – Dibaba
In Ethiopia, there are the fast runners and then there are the Dibabas. The Dibabas dominance in athletics is admirable and fascinating. Older sister Tirunesh was the previous World Record Holder of the 10,000m distance and still the reigning World Record Holder for the 5000m distance with a time...
How Much Sleep Do You Need To Perform At Your Peak?
With the never-ending demands of life and work, we feel like we are constantly short of time. How many of us have wished that there was 48 hours in a day? - Exactly! Not only do we try to juggle work and a social life, we also try to...
Diet and Exercise: Is One More Important Than The Other?
It's a constant struggle between these two isn't it? While a popular saying goes "20% exercise, 80% diet", don't we look at ourselves and wonder why our bodies don't seem to have changed even when we feel we have been eating healthy and staying away from carbs, deep-fried and...
Nike Built A LED Running Track Because – Why Not?
Nike does it again! Nike just can't help make running cool. Nike has built a LED Running Track situated in Manila, Philippines. The track is shaped like the bottom of Nike’s popular, most innovative Lunarepic Flyknit shoe, and it covers 200 meters, half the distance of a standard metric oval.
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Showdown: Mary Keitany v Edna Kiplagat
These 2 ladies need no introduction with great starts to their running season this year! Both considered to be veterans - Mary being 35 and Edna being 38, they really are giving the younger generation a run for their money. They really show us that old is gold!
Edna Kiplagat...