Ali Pottinger

What should your biggest run be, and when? Your long run is your longest run. You know when it is time to make it longer when you finish still feeling fresh. It shouldn’t be some orchestrated number or objective. The target needs to be reflective of your body and how Read more

‘I should increase my training by 10% per week’ You should increase your training volume only when you are able to absorb more stress. Your body doesn’t count 7 days, more likely the increase in loading will represent a gradually increasing wave over time. Some weeks with more, some weeks Read more

Often people struggle with motivation to get out the door and train in Winter so we have put together a few tips to help keep you motivated and running. Wet Weather Gear-  ‘There’s no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing’ Sir Ranulph Fiennes. Wearing the right clothing for Read more

Blue Lake, it’s now a tradition for us. We first attended 6 years ago, in it’s second year of running. Small and grassroots it has now grown and become more and more ‘festival’ like (but still totally weird and wacky with the usual suspects showing up).  In previous iterations Kerry Read more

Training to Tarawera – here and now. We are in August! 28 weeks until Tarawera 2022! So what should you be doing with your training now? The training you should be focusing on now always needs to take into account what you have been doing, and where your training needs Read more

The 100 mile distance, for many it’s the ultimate distance challenge.So how do you know if you have what it takes to toe a 100 mile start line? This is a question, that in our role as coaches, we get a lot of. We have coached several hundred runners to 100 Read more

Standing on the starting line of Tarawera Ultra Marathon this year I was full of excitement and anticipation.  2020 had been a year of injury for me, from January’s hip injury, to March’s stress fracture that plagued me through to October, a torn ligament in my ankle, that was followed Read more