Patient Piasecki bides her time

Gill Bland talked to Jess Piasecki about life, lockdown, funding and training Jess Piasecki should have been racing one of the...

Can you be ‘too fit’?

GB International and coach Jo Wilkinson highlights the dangers of having an engine that outstrips your body. “If you’re too fit...

Not all miles were created equal

Young Welsh writer and athlete Tomos Land writes about training to time versus miles and is definitely ‘team time’  This article explores...

Adventures for the future

Covid19 has made Nicola Duncan think about what she is missing most in her running life – interestingly it wasn’t the...

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do

Whether you see coaching as an art or a science, or both, one thing is true: We can learn from good...

The engaged athlete

Following on from Jack Gray’s post last week, the Cambridge & Coleridge athlete talks about getting the athlete to take some ownership of their training. ...

Saucony Ride ISO 2 review

Fast Running’s Gill Bland is a marathoner by trade so gets plenty of mileage in to test some shoes for us,...

Nutrition isn’t just about right and wrong

Elite athletes can over-identify with sport. As a junior athlete with unfulfilled Olympic dreams, Evan Lynch, founder of Evan Lynch fitnut...

Bound to the plan

In this two-part Fast 10 blog, Jack Gray considers whether overly prescriptive coaching, underpinned by the prevailing conceptualisation of the athlete as...

Just a run in the park

Pierre Murchan of the Dublin City Harriers last week ran his first ever marathon, on the well travelled one kilometre grass...