MARA YAMAUCHI

Following our Running Academy coaching sessions in Tokyo in March 2018, we will be returning to Tokyo next February to offer more of our coaching sessions for endurance runners of all abilities. Our sessions last for two hours and are for two runners. We cover running...

Our Autumn coaching sessions are underway! Atsue Morinaga and I started our latest round of coaching sessions last Sunday at Battersea Park (in glorious sunshine - summer isn't over yet!). Our dates for the rest of the Autumn are as follows:

14 October

11, 18 November

2,...

In October last year, I started a coaching collaboration with my friend and colleague, Atsue Morinaga, a therapist who runs her own practice in South Kensington specialising in acupuncture, massage and other treatments. By combining Atsue's skills in diagnosis and trea...

Exactly one week ago, I visited Minami Arima Junior High School in Minami Shimabara, Nagasaki, in southern Japan. I had been invited to a local race (the 27th Minami Shimabara Hara-jo Marathon) the previous day, and asked the organisers if they would like me to visit a...

Runners need to eat a healthy, varied diet to fuel training and recovery, and to obtain all the micro-nutrients necessary to stay healthy. Which is why I am always on the look-out for tasty ways to cook vegetables – a nutritious, varied and very important part of any d...

Last week I dipped my toe into the world of mountain trail running by competing in the Cortina Skyrace, held in Cortina d’Ampezzo in the Italian Dolomites. This race was, at 20km, the shortest of the Lavaredo Ultra Trail’s weekend of trail running action. The longest r...

It is Mental Health Awareness week this week, and thankfully mental health has become a much higher public priority, and much more talked about than it used to be. The UK is reportedly facing a mental health crisis with one in four adults and frighteningly large number...