Chris's Cross Country and Running

07/03/2020

Found an interesting article on Nikes controversial Vaporfly from my University that may be of interest to some 🏃‍♂️

Dr Phil Hurst discusses why placebo-controlled trials are needed to determine whether Nike Vaporfly trainers improve performance. We are in a golden age of road running. In the past 6-months, 10

17/01/2020

Basic treadmill run slowly increasing pace at 5 min intervals for new shoe run in

17/01/2020

Picked up some new Nike Zoom X Pegasus 35 Turbos and already put 5k of treadmill running on them. So far I'm impressed with them. They feel, snappy, responsive and comfortable...we'll see how they cope over the coming months on the track 🔥

17/01/2020

Tuesday's training session in atrocious conditions but overall a positive session, feeling more confident in myself and slowly but surely increasing my pace 🔥

Check out my run on Strava.

10/01/2020

Picked up a new running light from The Running Outlet, for those late evening and night runs 🌙 First impressions straight out the box are good, small compact design, head strap and chest strap included, adjustable light angle, rechargeable, bright with a wide beam 🔦 thanks to the staff at The Running Outlet for great advice and service as always.

10/01/2020

Julie Rose Thursdays XC Training 🌙 ☁️ Another good training session, aimed for 3 sets pace but only managed 2 clocking in at around 8km total but overall pleased with the result.

Check out my run on Strava.

08/01/2020

Last night's XC training session.
1.6km warm up.
4 x 600m@10k pace, 400m@5k pace,
600m@10k pace and a 200m walk between sets.
Weather was awful but overall a successful night thanks to Stella's training plan.

Check out my run on Strava.

06/01/2020

Picked up some new gear for the new year at The Running Outlet in Canterbury today! Amazing store and service who specialise in running gear! Going to definitely be seen rocking the volt day glow colours!

02/01/2020

Created this page purely to chart my running progress and maybe review some running gear and give my personal opinion from time to time