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Thursday, 18 September 2008

TRAINING TIP; THE FORWARD LEAN

Back in 2004 we went to CLUB LASANTA and on one of the days we went to their RUNNING SCHOOL, a very attractive sexy Irish girl checked out our running styles and showed me how to lean forward to improve running efficiency!
By leaning your whole body forward from the ankles not only do you take advantage of the pull of gravity but you also land under your center of gravity, if you run upright your landing foot will land in front of your center of gravity causing a breaking affect and also you have to use your leg muscles to pull your body weight forward until you are directly over your landing foot, very wasteful!
i used the forward lean to smash my p.b.s for both 5k and the 1/2 marathon in 2004. I also won the CLUB LASANTA 10k and 1/2 marathon.
Thur 18th
Arthur Lydiard leg speed session
With Rob, Steady Eddie and Tracey, 6 x 160m
=46mins
Wed 17th
Easy in the sandhills = 36mins

Tuesday, 12 February 2008

LONDON MARATHON NEWS

London Marathon - important changes

28 January 2008

Major changes are set to be made to the Flora 'public ballot' entry procedure.
For places in the 2009 London Marathon, all interested runners will be required to apply online, www.london-marathon.co.uk/site/
From noon on 13 April 2008 (London Marathon day) would-be entrants will need to be poised at their computer, eager to register interest and complete the application.
This new online ballot procedure will remain open until a maximum of 120,000 applications have been received - experience tells the Association this could mean the 'window of opportunity' is likely to be small (possibly hours or days).
Please note 'online' will be the only method of entry for the public ballot.
As we only have a few charity Golden Bond places available for allocation, we rely heavily on those runners who have gone through the 'public ballot' system and have been successful.
In 2007 the MND Association had 55 'own place' runners raising a total of £50,000 for the Association.