health and fitness: Steve Way: 'My physio uses a video of me to show people how not to run'

vendredi 22 mai 2015

Steve Way: 'My physio uses a video of me to show people how not to run'

The 100km record-holder and Commonwealth games marathoner on hiding in a hedge during cross-country at school, giving up smoking and fast food (most of the time), and how the worst thing about running is the laundry

What have you been up to recently? You’ve been injured, haven’t you? I’m not injured any more. Hooray! Yes! In the middle of February, a glute issue reared its ugly head, and I tried to fight through it because I was desperate to get to the start line of the London Marathon. I really wanted to go for the world champs qualifying time of 2h 14min, and to be able to do that I had to risk it and not back off much. And it didn’t pay off. I lost the battle. So I had to allow that to recover. Now I’m back in full training and I’ll be doing the Edinburgh Marathon. [Steve actually sneakily ran the London marathon as a training run. As you do.]

The Garmin stats are telling me I’m pretty fit now, but in all honesty I don’t think I’m going to be in PB shape. But I’m hoping that I’ll be back in sub 2:20 shape, which should leave me competitive, maybe fighting for a podium, maybe first Brit. My main target for the autumn, assuming I get selected, is the world 100k championships again.