Echos of the ACP

The Anglo Celtic Plate is a race with huge pedigree pitting some of the best ultra runners from Ireland, Northern Ireland,...

Making Canova Progress

In the first of a series looking at the training philosophy of Italian coach Renato Canova, Matt Long talks about the...

Living the dream

GB athlete Stuart McCallum achieved a lifelong ambition in Dublin but Matt Long finds a young man who is wide awake...

Tweaking the training

England masters athlete Claire Martin tells Matt Long about how she modifies sessions to optimise her training. Thus far in our...

Ingebrigtsen Intervals

The training philosophy underpinning Team Ingebrigtsen is unpicked by Matt Long after witnessing first hand the young Jakob’s domination in Dublin. ...

Seasonal Greetings

Top Masters athlete David Oxland talks to Matt Long about seasonal planning In a recent paper in the International Journal of...

Mastering those diminishing returns

Top masters athlete Chris Hollinshead talks to Matt Long about the optimisation of training for Masters athletes and the impact of training load....

A long journey of 800 metres

With the Met forecasting Storm Arwen bringing wind speeds of almost 100mph, we needed no better signal that winter is well...

Running during pregnancy

It’s a subject that really doesn’t have a huge amount of readily available information so trail and marathon athlete Julia Davis wants to share...

And that’s a wrap

The athletics season is over and Susanna Banjo updates us on how 2021 has gone on the track for the 400m...