Maggie's Running Podcast

A recent article in the newspaper suggested that taking paracetamol could improve your running performance. Should we then take paracetamol to make us run faster in a race or does that put us in the same category as drug cheats?

Whilst we have both been exercising this week, we've actually been thinking more about food. We talk about the book 'Why we get fat and what to do about it" by Gary Taubes and how diet affects our ability to run.

There was a big change in the athletics club last week and Maggie now has the role of ladies cross country and road running captain. How do we encourage more people to run and what are the benefits of running? We discuss this during this week's podcast.

We talk about the good and bad of running with a running club in this week's episode.

This week we've had fun running in the Lake District. We talk about the best way to find a good route on holiday and the benefits of a different kind of cross training.

Who doesn't like an old fashioned egg and spoon race and could we see the Welly race in the Olympic Games? We talk about School Sports and the fun we had watching our kids compete.

Maggie had a one to one Pilates lesson, found out which shoes to wear and has exciting news about the London Marathon.

There hasn't been a whole lot of running this week and the weather is unseasonably wet. However, we review our progress and plans for the coming weeks.

This week Maggie has been learning to walk! OK, so she knew how to walk but was she walking properly and was the way she walking helping or hurting her poorly foot?

Peter has been skipping his running and Maggie has been learning about the pose method for running.

Maggie is still suffering with plantar fasciitis but will a new sock be the answer or is it ski boots in bed? Meanwhile Peter is exercising to his new app.

Peter has been trying out a new exercise app and Maggie has been attempting to run. We talk about the app and also about what makes a healthy diet, a subject we may well come back to another week.

Plantar fasciitis continues to prevent full training but how did the first run in a while go? Exciting to be out running in the sunshine!

A visit to the physio with a reminder to do some exercises, balancing exercise with daily life, and spherical ex-athletes are all points for discussion in this week's show

Something slightly different this week - a book review. Maggie has been reading a biography of Emil Zatopek by Richard Askwith "Today we die a little" so we talk about the book.

In this week's episode we talk about the high fat low carb diet and its possible benefits to running. Maggie is still on the elliptical trainer and Peter is still running up and down the Town Hall steps.