Triathlon Pre-Season Training
Are you going to make the same mistake again this year? Well maybe not you exactly because, surely, you have never made any of these mistakes. But your fellow triathletes have! Every year in the autumn, all triathletes – recreational, experienced and professional – review their season and set targets on what they want to […]
World Triathlon Success – Testimonial
Carmen Macheriotou came third in her age category at the 2013 ITU WORLD TRIATHLON GRAND FINAL LONDON – competing against the world’s best in her age group. She worked with Mike Antoniades, Performance Director of The Running School, in the weeks leading up to this world class triathlon competition. Here’s what she had to say […]
Marathon Madness
It seems that everyone is marathon-mad at the moment. The Running School has been very busy developing marathon training programmes for marathoners and half-marathoners. Mike Antoniades has been very busy giving presentations on marathon training, including a very successful marathon masterclass at Sweaty Betty in Soho, London this past week. He’s provided Sweaty Betty blog […]
The Legend of Magic Mike!
A thanks to Chris Mallac, Head of Performance at London-Irish Rugby Union Club, and to Sports Injury Bulletin for letting us share the article below! This is the story of Magic Mike: “This is a story about Magic Mike. Mike is otherwise known as Mike Antoniades who is the Performance Director at ‘The Running School’ […]
Dynamic Movement Skills comes to Leighton Buzzard
The Running School is pleased to introduce its newest members of the Dynamic Movement Skills Team: Nikki and Trevor Killick! Nikki & Trevor run the Move Better Fitness Academy and are currently working in the Bedfordshire /Buckinghamshire area setting up the Dynamic Movement Skills (DMS) system to help athletes improve their movement and performance in […]
Lift your knees to run faster? Does this work?
“I was working with an elite sprinter in Germany and her coach recently. We were looking at the reason why she was getting a lot of hamstring tightness and hip flexor pain. So the athlete was going through some runs after a good warm-up and the coach is shouting “Lift your knees, get your knees […]
Mike’s Blog – The Running Show
Very Interesting two days at the Running Show. For the first time at a show we run three Technique workshops as well as doing a couple of presentations on Speed development, and the feedback was great! Sometimes (well a lot more than just sometimes) I get distracted while trying to run the business and develop […]
Mike’s Blog – DAY 9 & It’s all over!
It’s done all 985 miles completed! I actually debated doing another few miles to get to 1000, but the knees said Nope. I am sure you don’t want to hear about the actual last 105 miles! The three people who are probably reading this blog are bored of hearing about weather, hills (the hills!) the […]
Mike’s Blog – DAY 8
112 miles today. up Ben Nevis the highest mountain in GB with some rain early in the morning. It took us 4 hours to climb and when we got to the top the sun came out! Coming down the mountain took 1 hour of spectacular speeds and scenes and then along Loch Ness. Nessie the […]
Mike’s Blog – DAY 7
So I knew the day was going to be hard but this hard? The night before there were Gail force winds and driving rain in Hamilton and we were up most of the night holding up the tents! The day started at 6 am with rain and high winds! We were going the Scottish Highlands. […]