A New Challenge!

What we have here is a full workout hiding inside a new challenge! So what is the challenge? One word – Plank. In this challenge you will be doing 4 planks to failure – with a few other bits mixed in. Why? To find out how well you deal with different kinds of fatigue…...

A Word About Stitches

Stitches (or side stitches, side cramps, or even exercise-related transient abdominal pain (ETAP) – its official scholarly name) happen to everyone, doing almost every form of exercise – although they are a lot more common in runners and athletes where running is...

A Perfect Point for Planning Properly

After feeling so at ease the whole 21.09kms for the Onehunga Half Marathon, I was interested work work out why this was – so I could try to replicate it in the future. I came to the conclusion that it was a few different things coming together – Blood Lactate testing...

Onehunga Half Marathon

Although it started out as my second choice (to the Whangamata Half Marathon), it really made perfect sense to run the Onehunga Half Marathon – it was 5 weeks out from the Auckland Marathon, it was close to home and I’d run on various parts of the course before so I...

A New Beginning…

Hello and welcome to the Competitive Edge Sport Science blog. This blog will serve two main purposes: 1) to document my training from start (here) to a half marathon in 7 weeks, then onto the Auckland Marathon in October, and… 2) to highlight new research and...