Run3sixty

19/01/2024

Anyone for a wind assisted parkrun tomorrow?? Every Saturday’s a great day for a .

13/01/2024

Great pre-parkrun strength workout 💪 this morning, followed by a training effort at parkrun 🏃🏼🏃‍♀️. Nice work team!

Lovely to meet up with fellow trainers doing great work down at the Team East Lothian training facility too: Seahorse Fitness and Coastal Peak Fitness

Big thanks to all the parkrun volunteers, without you it wouldn’t be the success it is, week in, week out. 🙏

25/11/2023

Well…winter made an appearance this morning 🥶. But it was hot, hot in here! 😎.
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TEL Hallhill. Sat. 0900. 1000.

Great work team.

23/11/2023

Short days, wind, rain…are you struggling to keep your running up?

I get it. It’s difficult keeping it going during late autumn and into winter, the conditions are rarely inviting!

But here’s the good news, it doesn't take much to maintain your fitness and you can spend that extra time out of your running shoes; being a good family member, friend and community member.

To maintain the fitness you’ve built across the year, you do of course need to keep active but you can slash your usual volume by around 40-45%.

This is also a good time of year to work on your strength training; focussing in on areas of weakness (you know…those places where little niggles tend to develop!)

Strength training and maintaining consistency with regular, short runs will make a huge difference as you enter your next training block when spring comes around.

14/04/2023

Just like the miles and hours of physical training we accumulate over a long period, we should also practice and develop our mental skills too - periodised over the same timescales. Link through to discover the 7 mental skills we should be training to develop our mental toughness.

Just like the miles and hours of physical training we accumulate over a long period, we should also practice and develop our mental skills too - periodised over the same timescales. With that said, what are those mental skills we should be training to develop our mental toughness?

03/04/2023

Are you up for an endurance challenge?

Just under 8 weeks out from the West Highland Way Challenge Race and my eyes are firmly on the 3-day training camp I have planned across 14-16 April, and you can join in if you're up for the challenge.

You can choose to attend 1, 2 or all 3 days to maximise your fitness, challenge yourself and squeeze the most out of the training camp experience. Encourage a training buddy, or loved one, to join you in the challenge. Or at the very least invite them along to support you at some point. The more the merrier!

Spaces are limited, so secure yours today. Click https://bit.ly/X-TC for full details and booking.

And link through to my blog to learn more about what a training camp is, why and how you should include one in your own race preparation: https://www.run3sixty.co.uk/post/the-what-why-and-how-of-training-camps-and-your-opportunity-to-join-one

23/03/2023

After some easy days of recovery from Tempo workouts on the bike, this week’s training marked the point of switching the focus from building VO2max to pushing up my lactate threshold. It also marked a turning point in my road to recovery which has enabled me to find my feet again! More of that later, but first, reading back I realised I glossed over a proper definition of lactate threshold; which is an important metabolic marker and determinant of performance. So let’s look at that now.

Think of this as the top (sustainable) speed that will get you to your destination. Now let’s imagine there’s a shiny new electric car sitting in the driveway. Spec says it can hit a top speed of 145mph. Well, aside from it being illegal and reckless to drive around at that speed…it is simply not sustainable, it would quickly run out of charge and grind to a halt. Rather it would be much more sensible to dial that back to a (legal) speed the battery charge will sustain for a lot longer.

Much like your running; if you blast out the door and exceed your top sustainable speed, your batteries will soon run down. This is the point where blood lactate accumulates faster than you can process it. You’ll recognise this as your legs starting to feel heavy, accompanied by an intense burning sensation, ultimately forcing you to slow down or stop altogether.

Read the full article on my blog:

Can you cross-train your way to completing a 95mi trail running ultramarathon? After some easy days of recovery from Tempo workouts on the bike, this week’s training marked the point of switching the focus from building VO2max to pushing up my lactate threshold. It also marked a turning point in m...

22/03/2023

Try cross-training this weekend to reach your running or general fitness goals. Join a strength or cardio focussed group class (or indeed both!). Hallhill, Fridays and Saturdays, 0900 and 1000. Full details on the website: https://www.run3sixty.co.uk/group-training.