Race week booster
Good nutrition goes hand in hand with good training, and should start long before race week. However, a smart fuelling strategy in race week (not least race day) can be transformative to performance, and it is understandably an area that many clients want to focus on....
Plant-based milks: 6 top tips
There is one section of every supermarket and corner shop that is unrecognisable from ten years ago: plant-based milks. Or ‘mylks’, ‘m*lks’, or sometimes, confusingly, just ‘drinks’. I’m going with ‘milks’, partly for simplicity and partly because it amuses me that...
Marathon memory lane part 2
3. London, April 2016 Time: 2:51:29 Halfway: 1:26:57 With: John Conditions: Freakishly perfect. Sunny and cold again Fresh from breaking 3 in Rotterdam, I waited eagerly for the London Marathon Good for Age entries to open in August 2015, and secured my place for...
Marathon memory lane
I struggle to accept the fact that this week marks two years since my last marathon, but that’s what my phone has been telling me, so accept it I must. And while I don’t have any 2021 races inked into my diary just yet, I am starting to consider options for a winter...
Why do sports nutrition qualifications matter?
Even before completing my qualifications to become a Registered Dietitian back in 2013, I was pretty sure that at some point I would work in sports nutrition. Given that I spend the majority of my spare time playing, watching or thinking about sport, it always seemed...
Veganuary 2021
Veganuary is back, and more popular than ever, with over 500,000 people signing up in 2021. Inevitably this also means more backlash than ever from the closed-minded meat-chompers who feel threatened by plant-based diets, but I find it’s best not to rise to the...
2020: An unforgettable year as a runner…and ICU Dietitian (part 2/2)
July and August The second half of the year started in a similar fashion to June – just enjoying being in good shape and the very gradual easing of lockdown restrictions and return to some semblance of normality across the UK. This included our ‘Last Man Stands’...
2020: An unforgettable year as a runner…and ICU dietitian (part 1/2)
Perhaps a little self-indulgent, but this year has been unforgettable for all the right and mostly wrong reasons, so here's my month-by-month recap. I'm lucky that running is a constant in my life, and something I can turn to on even the hardest of days, so I've based...
Where ICU meets sports nutrition
Isn’t it bizarre how trivial conversations or moments can stick in your head? I often think back to such a moment in September 2019... Despite having promised to myself in 2013 that my life in academia was finally over, having qualified as a Registered Dietitian,...
13 realisations from 2 weeks of NOT running
(Because obviously, after a fortnight of injury, I am an expert on the subject…) For the first time in 10 years of running, I think I have an overtraining injury. Alternatively, it might just be something small and acute that I’m overreacting to (fingers crossed), but...
