If you’re training for a race, you’ll be filling up your diary with weekly training runs and strength sessions to ensure you’re in top condition on the start line. While it might seem counterintuitive when you’re trying to get faster and stronger, it’s just as important that you’re putting some rest days into your schedule

You’ve signed up to your next race and have got your training plan, but if you’re left scratching your head, confused by what it all means, don’t worry. Run 4 Wales Race Director, and double Olympic marathoner, Steve Brace, explains what all the different types of training runs mean so you can have complete confidence

It’s that time of year when runny noses, sniffles and coughs are rife. If you’ve been struck with a cold it can be difficult to know what’s best when it comes to your training – should you stay at home and rest up or go out for a run? When you’re met with this predicament,

A new-look Rabbit Run Wales is returning for 2025 on Saturday 19 July – and it will be bigger than ever before. For the first time, an exciting new 40K distance will be added alongside the much-loved original 12K Rabbit Run race. The new trail event will allow keen trail runners to experience the natural

For many the New Year marks a fresh start, which means it’s a time to look at want you want to achieve over the next 12 months, make new habits or break those that aren’t serving you well. For those who want to make running a part of their daily life, it can be difficult

With Christmas around the corner, diaries will be full of office parties, family activities and social gatherings. Combined with a growing to-do list of presents to buy and food to prep it’s easy for your training to fall to the wayside. If you’re keen to keep up your fitness, but don’t know how to fit

Run 4 Wales has helped several projects with their environmental initiatives this year thanks to donations from its Climate Action Fund. A donation pot of £21,000 was split out in January between Size of Wales, Green Squirrel’s Railway Gardens Project and Canolfan Waunfawr. It has led to the recipients being given a helping hand in

The Run 4 Wales 10K series is back for 2025 and runners are being challenged to conquer the races and complete the set.  Entries are now live for the events taking place in Newport, Porthcawl and Cardiff – with the chance to save if entering more than one event.  First up is the ABP Newport

When it’s dark and cold it’s easy to want to stay inside and wrap up warm. However, the winter months are a great time to be clocking up your miles. With the shorter days it means you’ll likely be exercising in the dark, so it’s important you know how to stay safe. Run 4 Wales