By in house Blog Editor and Rain-Enthusiast, Stu PJ “it’s bloody raining again!” These are the words that I can almost feel echoing around Aotearoa this week as day after day of torrential downpours dampen shoes and moods of runners everywhere. I’ve only been running a few years but I feel like, for me anyway, this has been the longest patch of unnabated pissy weather that I’ve experienced. My various run chat groups are filled to the brim of “I can’t make it this morning” and “Not on your life!” cancellations and when I went for a two hour slow jog around my local suburb on Sunday - I saw on ..read more

By Matthew Cutts, Auckland I don’t own a Garmin or any kind of sports watch. I’ve never been for a run with another person. I do have STRAVA on my phone, but I find the GPS so inaccurate it essentially serves as an expensive, subscription-based stopwatch. I signed up to STRAVA after entering my one and only organised run - The 2021 Waterfront Half Marathon. If I remember right, the App offered a 10 week, Half Marathon training plan. I only managed the final 5 weeks as my entry was a last-minute decision. It made little difference as I ignored the plan anyway. At the time my regular distance w ..read more