Blog & Camp Recaps

My guide to Kenyan running: A personal reflection "Run, eat, sleep" For an extremely simple and concise guide to Kenyan running I could just leave it at that. But I’m aware it doesn’t make a very interesting article. Not to say it's not true, in fact Songok would...

I was scrolling through my Instagram feed and stumbled across the above photo on an account named 'notafraid2fail' which I later learned belonged to a rather brilliant photographer called Jason. The caption simply read: "just a casual walk to school seeing some of the...

Thinking of training in Kenya? Looking at a Kenyan running camp but being put off by reports of rain? Keep reading to get the low down to what rainy season in Kenya is really like. We've received a lot of enquiries and questions on social media in the past few weeks...

When I first set out to write this post I intended it to be a breakdown of Kipchoge’s phenomenal London marathon win; each split analysed, his average pace scrutinised, why he may have gained a second here or lost one there. One for the ‘running nerds’ out there. (You...

The post marathon recovery and return to training period can be as confusing as the build up to the race itself. You have successfully navigated your way through the marathon but now you are wondering what you should be doing to recover. You are asking yourself if you...

London Marathon Elite Race:  There is always a lot of excitement around London Marathon but this year it seems to have been raised another notch. London Marathon is consistently the years best Marathon race with the top athletes from the famous Kenyan training camps,...

With London Marathon now just around the corner and many of you now in the middle of your marathon taper, we wanted to take a look at what you should be focussing on outside of the running itself and what you can do (and avoid doing) to ensure the best possible...

The Marathon Taper You’ve put in months of dedicated hard work during your marathon build up; long endurance runs, tempo workouts, lung busting interval training, maybe you even went on a training camp for a week or two to really get yourself into shape. The hard work...

Wow, what a weekend of road racing. With major races in Milan, Rotterdam, Rome, Prague, Berlin, Istanbul and Paris as well as in Asia and the United States there was seemingly fast running everywhere you looked this weekend.  Although road races take place around the...

Kenyan Training Observation & Discussion:  Is it better to run a workout at your own pace ensuring you complete the full session or to run at your desired pace and simply hold on for as long as you can, even if that means you do not complete the workout? When we...