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

Tag: Injury

  • 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…

  • Hello world!

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    I guess the first post should be a current status update. After running for four years with a lot of ups and downs (both figuratively and literally speaking) I was doing pretty well all things considered! I was regularly running over 30 miles a week, in all weather, and had even completed a half marathon…