On Saturday, January 29th The Running Curve organised the 1st Coaching Seminar at the High-Performance Centre, Alexander Stadium in Birmingham with the legendary coach Dr Jack Daniels. Jack Daniels has been one of the most known endurance coaches. Before turning towards coaching, Daniels was a pentathlete competing in the 1956 Melbourne and 1960 Rome Olympics   Read More …

The HOKA ONE ONE Clayton is the latest addition to the HOKA ONE ONE maximalist running shoes. HOKA target predominately ultra runners. More recently, HOKA introduced new running shoes aimed at performance oriented athletes wanting to reap the benefits of maximum cushioning when racing on the roads or training on the track. Having tested the   Read More …

It was wonderful to watch the 36th Virgin Money London Marathon. Congrats and well done to all the 39,000+ finishers, wear your medals with pride. As coaches, we want the best for our athletes. Especially the last couple of weeks prior to the London Marathon can be nerve wrecking. Is the athlete injured? Has the athlete done   Read More …

In August, Coach Urban travelled to Kenya and stayed at Lornah Kiplagat’s High Altitude Training Camp (HATC) in Iten, Kenya. Iten aka as “The Home of Champions” is located north east of Eldoret and has been the training base of many world class Kenyan distance runners. Many international distance runners from Europe, Asia, USA and   Read More …

“The Way of the Runner – A journey into the fabled world of Japanese running” is Adharanand Finn’s second book after the much celebrated “Running with the Kenyans – Discovering The Secrets Of The Fastest People On Earth”. Finn sets out for a new adventure to better himself as a runner and explore what running   Read More …

In February I received a message via the RunUrban website from Airia Running enquiring if I would be willing to try out their new Airia One Running Shoe. Not having previously come across Airia I was intrigued to find out more and I looked up the Airia Running Company website. I agreed to give their   Read More …

On a warm, sunny autumn morning of September, 28th, 10 runners coached by RunUrban took part in the 41. Berlin Marathon. The runners consisted of a group of MBA students from the Quadriga University in Berlin and runners from London. Back in December 2013, a number of students decided to run the Berlin marathon. One   Read More …

In his highly-anticipated debut over the 26.2 miles Mo Farah crossed the finish line in 8th place in a time of 2:08:21. Mo set a new English marathon record and completed the London course 12 seconds faster than Charlie Spedding’s 2:08:33 performance in the 1985 London marathon. Steve Jones’ British marathon record of 2:07:13, set   Read More …

Post Race Work-out Mo Farah’s fellow training partner and US distance runner Galen Rupp has set a new 5,000m and 2 mile indoor American Record within a week. On both occasions, 15 minutes after his record run Galen Rupp started to embark on a track session. It is not common practice among coaches to advise   Read More …

Last weekend I attended the 2nd European Endurance Coaching Conference in Nottingham (link). The conference was organised by British Athletics in partnership with England Athletics. The purpose of the conference is to bring coaches across Europe together for a weekend and promote sharing of ideas and best practice in Endurance Coaching. Unlike last year, which   Read More …