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In Bristol, I'd recommend Moti on Whiteladies Road, which is where I usually go (I bought a pair of new shoes there about two hours ago, in fact!) or Easy Runner on St. Michael's Hill, which I've heard good things about, too. They both do gait analysis and have a decent range of shoes and people who...

Hi Lolly! You've got enough time to get there. And -- assuming you're in the northern hemisphere! -- at least you can train through spring and into summer. The weather's only going to get nicer from here :) What I did to get to my first 10K was go through the Get Running plan, first of all, to make ...

Yup, I'll join the "find a good running shoe shop" chorus. If it helps, this is my blog entry from when I bought my very first pair of shoes , which should be roughly what's going to happen if you go into a decent shop. I was a bit scared of all the skinny fit people at first, but it worke...

Yup, he's the "Penguin" I reckon it's a good book for travelling. It's a nice easy read.

Hi! One thing you might want to look into is interval training , or " Fartlek " (really!) training. They're similar ideas, with the core of it being that you jog at your normal pace, but every now and again sprint harder for a short distance. Then, you drop back to either walking or joggin...

This sounds so silly, but I use Pandora radio, and I listen to the dubstep station. I don't even particularly LIKE dubstep, but the pounding bass and drums really help me feel like a superhero while I'm running. Odd, isn't it? I listen to all sorts of things when I'm running (Speech Debelle and Lad...

My mental technique for getting through long distances (and I did a half marathon yesterday, so it's on my mind at the moment!) is to try to concentrate on *now*, rather than on the finish line. Focusing on what's going on around me right at the moment, and on my body and my feet on the ground, seem...

I had just the same revelation. Wore cheap old trainers for weeks, finally went to a shop with one of those treadmills that videos you as you run, and the chap pointed out on the screen how well my feet landed in a couple of pairs compared to all the others -- I'm also flat-footed. And yes, made a b...

Don't worry! It's perfectly fine to re-do a run, or a week, and not being able to do every single run first time is quite normal, honest :) I'd maybe re-do Week 5 again (you can easily go back and re-run any run by tapping on it in the "progress path" at the bottom of the Get Running scree...

I've carried my phone in a pocket, an armband, and a "fanny pack/bum bag". Nike, at least, sell a special slimline one of those designed for iPods and the like, though from what I remember they call it something marketing-friendly like an "audio waist pack" rather than a "bu...