Healthcare professional. +++ Wellness, sport, yoga. One of three English women who were the first to take part & complete the ultramarathon, Marathon des Sables
11/9/17 Week 10: Marathon Tips: Tried and Tested & Stories from the Marathon des Sables
With the traditional marathon length of just over 26miles, there are going to be opportunities to practice the race either in it’s entirety or at the very least, portions of it. Get to know the course you’ll be running — is it dead flat…
Marathon Tips: Week 9:
Managing the Race & Stories from the Marathon des Sables
Break the race up into sections and as you achieve each one, congratulate yourself and look towards the next. This way the whole race becomes manageable and your focus is only on small chunks at a time. Before you know…
Marathon Tips: Week 8: Alignment, Posture & Stories from the Sahara
The human being is bilaterally symmetrical. Or at least that is the ideal, from an anatomical and functional point of view. The skeleton is there to protect the central nervous system, the most important system in the body. It also serves to hang muscles…
Week 7: You Really Are What Your Eat & Stories from the Sahara
In recent years, Gilian McKeith has popularised the phrase ‘You Are What You Eat’. It is certainly not a new edict. Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, wrote in 431 BC ‘Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.’ And so it is proving, with the passage of…
Week 6 Techniques to achieve your goal & stories from the Sahara
Once we’ve committed to a goal, be it taking part in a marathon, or anything else, we naturally want to achieve it. So how can we maximise the likelihood of achieving said goal?