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Welcome to Joguary. The new name for January.
January, we realised, is when lots of people pay for gym memberships that they’ll hardly ever use, which is kind of a waste. And so, our little band of slightly nerdy runners took the unilateral...
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I love the smell of Deep Heat in the morning…
...followed by Deep Freeze (from those wonderful folks who brought you Deep Heat) to try and keep everything cool and pain-free, or Deep Relief (from yep, you guessed it) if I'm in too much pain after...
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It’s hot. It’s damned hot. And maybe we’d all better get used to it…
Now, before getting to the serious business of sharing my findings on acclimatisation training, there is just one thing I'd like to share with you, for no reason other than that I'm plainly a very bad...
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Gear Review: TrailMix Music Player App for Runners
Those nice people at TrailMix have been kind enough to send me no less than 5 Promo codes that are good for free downloads of TrailMix Pro from the Apple App store. So if you'd like to try the Pro...
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Deep Heat Muscle Rescue Review
Well, there were two surprises in store: the first of which is that there's very little vanilla and a whole lot of rosemary going on here, ensuring that while I'm technically 'mutton', I smelled pretty...
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Race Review: Hellrunner Hell Up North 2013
NOT ONLY MUST YOU BE ABLE TO SWIM, PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT ENTERING WAVE 2 MEANS YOU WILL BE FOLLOWING 1500 PEOPLE WHO HAVE CHURNED UP THE TRACKS TO A QUITE UNHOLY DEGREE, AND WHO WILL MAKE YOU QUEUE...
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These days I run just like Red Rum…
This is the training regime that enabled Red Rum to win a record three Grand Nationals. So if it was good enough for him, I'm bound to say that it's good enough for me; especially as I generally look...
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Cycling is like peanut butter. It makes my legs feel like jelly.
Yep, I’m now in full training for the Rat Race Scotland Coast to Coast, which means regular 20-mile bike rides, followed, theoretically anyway, by a slow 10k run. I say theoretically, because the truth...
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Vodka Mudshake. The ultimate recovery drink for runners?
It’s a confusing old world for the older plodder. When I was a lad, you drank Adam’s Ale to recover from a long hot run. From a tap, you understand, not some trendy microbrewery. Then, as the years...
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These days I run just like Red Rum…
This is the training regime that enabled Red Rum to win a record three Grand Nationals. So if it was good enough for him, I'm bound to say that it's good enough for me; especially as I generally look...
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Deep Heat Muscle Rescue Review
Well, there were two surprises in store: the first of which is that there's very little vanilla and a whole lot of rosemary going on here, ensuring that while I'm technically 'mutton', I smelled pretty...
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Shoe Review: New Balance Fresh Foam 1080
However, I only had to run a few hundred metres to realise that these things were quite capable of taking my much-abused knees and ankles to their happy place, as they feel just as neutral as any...
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