A high barren landscape covered in grass, heather and rocks. There are several valleys that run up into the main hillside. A path leads the eve to the distance where there is a war memorial.
Abstract hill that also looks like a letter f and the words fell run that look like a shoe

Category: Running

  • How to Look After Your Running Shoes

    How to Look After Your Running Shoes

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    In a world where things are ever more expensive, I personally want to get the most use out of everything I buy. Running shoes are not exactly cheap are they. Sure, it’s possible to pick up a deal in the end of season sales, especially if you have a particularly large or small shoe size,…

  • How to Run Faster While Running Slower

    How to Run Faster While Running Slower

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    Don’t worry, I know this sounds confusing, but all will become clear. As discussed in previous posts, I embraced the run slower to run faster principle and committed to it. It all made sense; slow down, reduce the chance of injury, establish long term consistency, reap the gains! Except for a while all that was…

  • How to Run in Zone 2/3

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    In the previous post on How to Run Slowly, I talked about training zones and that to get good at running in Zone 2/3 you just had to to “use a heart rate monitor and every time your heart rate creeps up into Zone 4, stop running and walk until your heart rate drops again”.…

  • How to Run Slowly

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    If I have managed to convince you of the benefits of taking things slow and steady, then the next question will probably be quite simply ‘how?’ As with all my posts, I am not attempting to be an authority here, this is all just my opinion and I can only talk about my personal experience.…

  • Training is about Consistency

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    Following on from the previous post about walking here I consider the longer term advantages of doing less, but doing it consistently. On the surface ‘doing less’ sounds counterintuitive, but doing less and being able to keep running without injury is much better than ‘doing more’, ‘making progress’, ‘seeing a huge improvement’ at the time…

  • Walking

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    “Hang on, I thought this was about fell running?” Yes, that’s right, and the number one lesson for fell running in my humble opinion is: “Learn to walk before you run!” This idiom is often used figuratively, but in this case I mean it quite literally. In the beginning of starting to run, everyone has…

  • What is Fell Running?

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    In the simplest terms it is running in the fells. “Huh, what are fells?” I hear you ask! Oops, I forgot, you’re not from the North of England and haven’t heard the term before. That’s okay, read on and all will become clear (as mud?). A fell is a kind of hill, specifically a high…