Did you know that just in our two feet we have 38 muscles and tendons, 214 ligaments, 52 bones, and all wrapped up in this amazing stuff called facia?

We are so fantastically well put together a machine that is designed to do things in a certain way, to optimise its natural gifts. So when searching for ‘the secret to performance running’ we find it in the phenomena known as…

Whether training for an Ironman or short course triathlon or simply looking to get faster over 5K or 10K, there are some important pieces of the running jigsaw we need to put in place, to become optimal.

Why do I prescribe sand running and its benefits? Each February I take the team (and the London triathlon Academy) away for a warm-weather camp. It’s the perfect time of year for us Brits to get away and feel some sun on our backs.

There are a number of key sessions I like to replicate on camp, runs on the same hills, bike sessions over the same courses, and swim sets in the same pool, etc to see if we are in the same or better place physically than last year or 3 years ago.

However, one of the key benefits for us City dwellers is the use of around a kilometer of soft sandy beach, right outside the hotel.