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Race-Day Tactics For Your First Half Marathon
Achieve all your half marathon goals with our race day strategies Not long to do until the 2021 Windsor Half Marathon. You’ve completed your training plan, kept injures at bay, and fuelled your body well. But there’s one last thing you can do to ensure you have an...
Your Final 4 Weeks Of Half Marathon Training
The final 4 weeks of your Winsor Half Marathon training plan are where you put the finishing touches on all your hard work so far. Wondering how to structure your final few weeks of half marathon training? Here’s a simple plan that will get you to the start line fit...
The Best Stretches To Prepare For Your Half-Marathon
Here are 6 simple stretches you can do at home in the lead up to the Windsor Half Marathon Don’t wait until after race day to do your long-run stretches. There are lots of simple, effective stretches you can start doing this week at home to help your body get ready...
Build A Healthy Salad To Fuel Running Training
Here’s how to create the ideal salad to fuel training and boost recovery Heading towards Summer means a shift towards lighter healthier eating - and this can be a great way to fuel your running training. Do you know how to build a hearty salad that gives you the...
Why You Should Start a Training Diary – Part 2
3. Creating Your Workout Plan Why Exercise? You will be healthier You will look better You will be less Stressed You will have fun! Setting your fitness goals. Goal-setting: Goal-setting is a simple, yet often misused, motivational technique which can provide some...
10 Foods To Eat After A Half Marathon
The foods you choose to eat after running a half marathon can boost your recovery! You already know it’s important to nourish your body after training for - and finishing - a half marathon. But did you know that some foods pack a much bigger punch, giving you more...
Why You Should Start a Training Diary – Part 1
Running is a very basic yet magical form of exercise – you simply put one foot in front of the other and before you know it you have covered a couple of miles. Each week you will discover that you can run a little farther and perhaps a little faster than the previous...
Why you should run (and do you find the motivation to keep going!)
"James Thie Coaches Corner" Why you should run (and do you find the motivation to keep going!) Welcome to the first of my ‘coaching corner’ articles and hopefully they might offer some advice to those already training for or inspire some new runners to take part in...
The Truth About Carb-Loading For Half Marathons
What should you eat to fuel up for the Windsor half-marathon? Carb-loading is one of the prevailing theories linked with endurance running. But is the idea of fuelling up on a carb-heavy meal before a half marathon fact, or fiction? We’ve looked into the concept of...
What’s Best: Running Solo Or With A Buddy?
Delving into the pros and cons of running with others It’s always fun to run with a mate. You chat, you laugh, you catch up with each other’s lives and vent your innermost thoughts. But then again, it’s always lovely to run by yourself. Peace and quiet, nothing to...
How to Start Training for a Half Marathon
With races starting to be added to your diaries, plenty of you will run marathons and half-marathons over coming months. We look at how to get started training for a half-marathon. Looking ahead towards the end of the month, running groups and clubs can start training...
5 Rules Of Running During Coronavirus
How to run outside during the era of “social distancing” What exactly you can (and can’t) you do regarding outdoor running during Covid-19? How to cope if your running route is busy If your preferred running route is busier than usual – with other runners or with...