A study in Frontiers in Psychology has shown that trail running in natural mountain environments can activate your ‘positive emotion centre’, potentially reducing anxiety. Another study from the Unive

You’re finally in the groove. Your fitness is improving and then suddenly, something twinges. A sharp pain in your knee. A dull ache in your hip. A foot that just won’t stop hurting. Injury is one of

One commonly overlooked factor to running performance is recovery. Because here’s the thing: how well you recover is just as important as how hard you train. “Without proper recovery, runners risk exc

Q I’m worried about getting a stress fracture. How would I know if I had one and when should I seek medical help? A Stress fractures, unlike full fractures which happen suddenly, develop over time and

My last years of drinking were like a death-march to a finish line. Energy sapped and feet dragging, everything inside was screaming at me to stop. My brain was scrambled, and my body broken. I felt a

Shoulder pain can be an overlooked issue for us runners because we wrongly assume injuries happen to our lower bodies rather than upper. The truth is that, while running is predominantly a lower-body