Run streaks: is it safe to run every day?

Run streaks: is it safe to run every day?

Running every day could cause harm to your body. muse studio/ Shutterstock By Jonathan Melville, Anglia Ruskin University and Matthew Slater, Anglia Ruskin University Running is a great form of exercise that has numerous benefits for our health. For instance, people who consistently run at least an hour a week throughout their lives tend to live three years longer and have fewer chronic illnesses, compared with […]

May 22, 2024 28

Lifestyle

Why you shouldn’t be afraid to start running after middle age

Exercise is actually very good for the joints. Fotokostic/ Shutterstock By Alister Hart, UCL As someone who started marathon running in mid-life, I know how many aches and pains (and doubts) you can have if you take on the challenge to start running at an older age. But as an orthopaedic surgeon who has replaced thousands of worn-out hips and knees throughout my career, I also know […]

April 22, 2024 19

Sport

African female running greats are empowering young women to ‘Achieve’

Stephen Granger, SPNA via bird Running greats, Mary Keitany and Elana van Zyl with Rhonda Vetere, Nolene Conrad and the Achieve Team at Makupula Secondary School in Kayamandi, Stellenbosch. Photo - Stephen Granger. Derartu Tulu, the first African athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in female competition and now president of Ethiopia’s Athletics Federation; Kenyan marathon super-stars and former world record holders, Tegla Leroupe and Mary Keitany; and former […]

January 9, 2024 4

Sport

De Chavonnes-Vrugt conquers the UTCT

Namibian runner Marietjie de Chavonnes Vrugt has finished 5th amongst women runners in the Ultra Trail Cape Town event which was held in Cape Town over this past weekend. The race, which has a “hunderd mile” distance, required runners to complete 166 kilometers around the Cape Peninsula – a distance that De Chavonnes Vrugt completed in 37 hours, 53 minutes and 38 seconds. The UTCT as this event is known, […]

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