Seb Coe’s Marathon Running Tips
Seb Coe recently spoke with The Telegraph and provided some good running tips for people training for a half or full marathon. He was trained by Dr. George Gandy, who is a very experienced athletics coach and now Director of Athletics at the Sports Development Centre at Loughborough University. Seb Coe is now IAAF Vice President and has worked closely with athletics all his life. So, he certainly knows a thing or two about running. His advice is very simple, almost common sense advice, but that does not make it any less important.
Lord Coe’s Running Tips
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- Buy a good pair of running shoes. Simple and obvious, unless you plan to run bare foot. For race day you need to have run your shoes in. New shoes are no good, but then neither are old ones.
- Diet is important, but should not be made the most important element for running. But, in the days running up to a race you need to start to eat more carbohydrates and less protein.
- Drink less alcohol. No need to give up drinking, just drink moderately. One or two beers at the weekend is not a problem, and a pint of ale after exercise does aid re-hydration.
- Keep drinking plenty of water in the days running up to the race to ensure that you are well hydrated.
- Get your mindset right. Being mentally ready for the run is very important. Being physically ready makes being mentally ready much easier.
- Make sure that you are physically ready for a half marathon with some good length practice runs. Before the race day you should have covered about 10 miles in a few runs. Ideally you will have run the full 13 mile half marathon once or twice beforehand. The last big run needs to be at least 10 days before the race.
- After he race, just enjoy yourself, enjoy the feeling of competing a race or raising money for charity.
- Do not wait too long before running again. The hard work as been done, just keep running to stay fit and then when the next race comes up, you will be able to prepare with relative ease.
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Source: www.telegraph.co.uk


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