Race walkers never have them of course. But for your running friends, or if you also run, here is an excellent article by by top physio Denise Park in the winter 2017 issue of ‘The Fellrunner’. Gives the basics of knees, knee troubles, and common misdiagnoses. A bias towards fellrunning issues but a great overview. Searchable Word document here, PDF of the original article here.
Here. Reports, fixtures, and sadly quite a lot of reminiscences, obituaries and get-well-soon’s.
Training during the week : on both Monday and Wednesday, as recovery continues, easy or fartlek sessions of up to 10k.
Training at the weekend : If not racing, should do a daylight distance session. Any suggestions ?
Racing at the weekend : Sometime on Saturday, there’s a 1 mile race in the Essex and Eastern Indoor Championships at Lee Valley. On Sunday at Donkey Lane, Enfield, there are the annual London Walks, including the Southern RWA Championship races, with the event starting at mid-day and the seniors’ 5k and 10k races starting at 1 pm. Details here.
Training camps : the first Leeds training camp starts in a fortnight’s time. Details here.
On 18 November last year, some of us went to a Training Day organised by Andi Drake at Moulton, Northamptonshire.
I’ve added to this site, some materials that Andi circulated a couple of days later. They are listed here. If you want to discuss any of this, you know who to ask . . .
Training during the week : on both Monday and Wednesday, as recovery continues, easy or fartlek sessions of up to 10k.
Training at the weekend : If not racing, should do a daylight distance session. Any suggestions ?
Racing at the weekend : At 2pm on Saturday, a 15k race at Steyning, Sussex.
Now available on the website – Race Walking Record including news, results, fixtures and 2017 rankings; Enfield Walker including a review of the 2017 Enfield League and details of the first event for 2018; and Essex Walker with a wide range of stuff as always and including coaching tips from George Nibre (coach to Dominic King).
Training during the week : on both Monday and Wednesday, another easy or fartlek session of up to 10k, as as people return from various periods of enforced inactivity . . . .
Training at the weekend : If not racing, should do a daylight distance session if anyone is up for it. Any suggestions ?
Racing at the weekend : At 11:45 on Saturday (earlier start than last year), there is a 5 mile race in the 2018 Enfield League – first event of this year’s League – at Donkey Lane, Enfield. Followed by the presentations for the 2017 season. Full details in the latest Enfield Walker. And on either Saturday or Sunday, there is expected to be a 3000m race in the the London Indoor Games at Lee Valley. Different sources give different days, and at the present time the event is not visible on the timetable for either day (as given on the event website). Might be worth investigating if you want to get an indoor race in, but you might need to do a bit of sleuthing . . .
Andi Drake has compiled a list of the major (non-Masters) competitions for 2018 – available here.
. . . congratulations to City’s Gemma Bridge, who won the England Athletics Indoor 3000m Championships today !
Training during the week : on Monday, 10k-ish easy or fartlek. Don’t forget hi-viz clothing. On Wednesday, hoping the weather is good enough for a track session, with the normal track fee. Otherwise another 10k-ish easy or fartlek.
Training at the weekend : Should do a daylight distance session. Any suggestions ?
Racing at the weekend : None on the mainland.
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