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Go Feet: Mental Training: Free your mind and your ass will follow
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A blog about running, its history and culture. Sunday, 10 May 2015. Mental Training: Free your mind and your ass will follow. In her book 'A Life without limits', triathlete and four times World Ironman Champion Chrissie Wellington discusses the importance of mental training in athletics: 'You wouldn't go into a race without any physical training, so why would you go in without any mental? The latter reminds me of a meditation technique I was once taught by Adrian Harris called 'Strawberries'. Chrissie r...
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Go Feet: The Assembly League 2014 finale in Beckenham
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A blog about running, its history and culture. Tuesday, 9 September 2014. The Assembly League 2014 finale in Beckenham. The final race of the summer's Assembly League. Was hosted by Beckenham Running Club. It was a similar result in the club competition, with Victoria Park Harriers winning the league for the men and Kent Athletic Club. For the women - the latter for the first time, a sign of the growing strength of the South East London club whose men's team came third overall. Photo form @ronnie haydon.
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Go Feet: What is the fastest parkrun in SE London? And how much difference does the course make?
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A blog about running, its history and culture. Friday, 31 July 2015. What is the fastest parkrun in SE London? And how much difference does the course make? But can we quantify how much difference a course makes? On the median measure, Greenwich still appears to be the toughest course. Southwark Park is now the fastest, with Dulwich slipping into second. Burgess is now faster than Brockwell Park which I would expect. But I certainly don't believe that Hilly Fields is faster than Peckham Rye -...To exclud...
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Go Feet: Running History (4): The Women's 800m - 1928 and today
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A blog about running, its history and culture. Monday, 26 August 2013. Running History (4): The Women's 800m - 1928 and today. The 800m final in Moscow, August 2013. Women's Athletics were first included in the Olympics at the 1928 games in Amsterdam, and the 800m was the longest race for women. German runner Lina Radke. Below right) won in 2 minutes 16 seconds - a new world record (compared with Sum's 2013 time of 1 min 57.38sec). She beat Kinue Hitomi. Finishing 4th and 5th. Reuters, 2 August 1928.
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Go Feet: Friday Photos (7): Lillian Board (1948-1970)
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A blog about running, its history and culture. Friday, 4 October 2013. Friday Photos (7): Lillian Board (1948-1970). One of my earliest childhood sporting memories is the death of. A runner at 100m, 200m, 400m and 800m, she was only 19 when she won a silver medal running for Great Britain in the 400m in the 1968 Mexico Olympics. Left) narrowly beat Lilian Board in 400m in Mexico in a fantastic finish. Lillian Board and team mate Janet Simpson training in Mexico in 1968. The songs she chose were:. Running...
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Go Feet: Joe Strummer: Marathon Runner
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A blog about running, its history and culture. Saturday, 25 January 2014. Joe Strummer: Marathon Runner. As several other running bloggers have noted before (including Run Dangerously. And Run and Jump. The late great Joe Strummer of The Clash apparently. Salewicz also says that in May 1982 Strummer ran in the Paris Marathon (as did Gaby Salter) during a short period when he was hiding out in the city while 'missing' from the band. Mohican beginning to wilt a bit'. 25 January 2014 at 19:06. Yesterday saw...
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Go Feet: Running London (4): Hilly Fields parkrun birthday
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A blog about running, its history and culture. Saturday, 14 September 2013. Running London (4): Hilly Fields parkrun birthday. Today was the first birthday of Hilly Fields parkrun. With a record attendance of 108 runners braving the September showers. As noted at Transpontine. In the last 12 months, 887 different people have come to the park on a Saturday morning and run 5 km. The combined distance they have run is 17,640 km - which is further than from Hilly Fields to Sydney, Australia'. I don't think m...
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Go Feet: Catford Cycling Club and its athletics origins
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A blog about running, its history and culture. Friday, 7 August 2015. Catford Cycling Club and its athletics origins. My running club, Kent Athletic Club, traces its origins back to an earlier club in this part of South East London - Lewisham Hare and Hounds, which merged with West Kent Harriers to form Kent AC in 1898. Lewisham Hare and Hounds also spawned another sporting body that exists to this day - Catford Cycling Club. Vol 39 No. 3, November, 2014, 187–204). A race at Catford in the 1890s. Hello I...
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Go Feet: House Every Weekend - running in Ladywell
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A blog about running, its history and culture. Monday, 27 July 2015. House Every Weekend - running in Ladywell. The video for House Every Weekend, David Zowie's summer UK number one single, features some great dancing but also the figure of a runner making his way through London streets. But which London streets? See/hear also: 120 Seconds Over Ladywell Fields. 28 July 2015 at 23:30. Looks like Malyons Rd to me; hes running down from the park towards Ladywell Road. You can just make out 159 on one of...
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Go Feet: Friday Photo: Marilyn Monroe the Runner
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A blog about running, its history and culture. Friday, 16 August 2013. Friday Photo: Marilyn Monroe the Runner. This week's Friday photo shows Marilyn Monroe in Santa Monica in 1951. In an interview the following year, she 'reported that she went for a “jog-trot” every morning dressed variously in blue jeans and a T-neck sweater or a brief suntop' . She commented, “The small boys stare at me and shout, 'Who's chasing you? Running wild, lost control. Running wild, mighty bold. Feeling gay, reckless too,.
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