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Garmin Forerunner 305 |
 Arguably the most advanced training aid on the market. Monitor your speed, pace, distance and also your heart rate and use a series of features designed to help you get the most from your training.
Price £255
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Hilly Twin Skin Anklet |
 Two layered technical socks to keep your keep comfortable for mile after mile.
Price £8.95
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Ultralife Detox |
 Ultralife Detox is one of the most effective cleansing and detoxification products available. It has been scientifically developed to improve digestion, bowel function and eliminate toxins.
Price £9.25
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Garmin Forerunner 205 |
 Use cutting edge technology to monitor your training with this speed distance system. It does far more than tell you how far and how fast you have run!
Price £200
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Hilly Runners Pouch |
 Versatile running pack suitable for carrying a range of items such as a mobile phone/iPod/mp3 player and plus larger items in the main compartment. Price £17.50
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Ultralife Max |
 The ultimate sports nutrition and energy drink, combining bioactive vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, antioxidants, ginseng and other potent nutrients for the very best in sports nutrition!
Price £ 12.55
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Elite coaching special - Nic Bideau, coach to Craig Mottram
The fundamentals of successful training
Nic is open about what it takes to succeed at the top level.
The base is good aerobic conditioning. Nic said: “There’s a lot of aerobic running. There is regular speed work – for me that means something like 3 x 120m fast and relaxed with plenty of rest in between.
“Lots of good volume aerobic work means running 90min to 2hr once or even twice a week. Then lots of one hour runs.
“If you just did that you would get to a good level.”
On top of this comes the more specific running: “Then you add runs at anaerobic threshold, so you are running at the pace you could manage for just over an hour. It would be a race if you did it for an hour but you do it for 20min or 30min. Ron Clarke and his group in Australia in the 60’s used to run around a horse racecourse. They would run for an hour and wind it up for the last 20min or 30min. Now we can measure the heart rate and control that it is at threshold.
“Once a week we do some faster reps. Most of the year it is 5K to 10K pace with a volume of 6K to 8K. Work closer to important races involves some hills and some faster work at a specific pace. For example if you are going to run a 4min mile you have got to be comfortable at 60sec per quarter mile in training.”
Nic does not believe in large quantities of tough workouts and believes an athlete who is fit can be brought into top shape in a relatively short period of time: “As long as you are running fast once a week you can do hardly any high quality sessions for six months and maintain the capability to be ready to race at a high level within a few weeks. The ability to run anaerobically comes very quickly to most athletes.
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