Videos

Just outside St Moritz is Samedan airstrip, complete with a 5km tarmac, flat loop around the perimeter. There's virtually no traffic, all you have to watch for is the occasional jet blast from planes & helicopters! Here's one of my marathon workout's I did recently around the taxi ways. St Moritz marathon simulation run from [...]

Here's a few shots from one of my regular easy runs from St Moritz. We head from St Moritz Bad, over to Lake Chamfer then around the edge of Lake Silvaplana. The trails are extremely well maintained, hard packed, wide gravel that holds up perfectly the few times we've had a heavy mountain storm. The [...]

One of my final track workouts in the run up to the Olympic Marathon. Today we ran 4x 1mile with 2minute recoveries aiming to get faster every repetition. Following that were a few 200m sprints to inject a little pace and freshness back into my legs Track workout at the TeamGB holding camp from Nick [...]

I've spent the last month out in Font Romeu preparing for the big event next month over in South America! Here's a short montage of what I've been up to courtesy of my amazing sponsors Brooks Running UK. Running at Pyrenees 2000 (near Font Romeu) from Nick Samuels on Vimeo.

Beautiful weather, beautiful setting. All you need for a marathon workout. Here are a few of my thoughts on today and my favourite Brooks training shoe.

Font Romeu is one of my favourite places to train so I always look forward to hitting the trails and getting strong. Here is a short clip of a 10 mile loop which I really enjoy. It is hilly in places but the scenery is breathtakingly beautiful. Running at Pyrenees 2000 (near Font Romeu) from Nick [...]

Here's some sensory and floor contact drills I've been practicing whilst out in beautiful Boston. I'm trying out the new Brooks Asteria as I find them great to get a good ground contact with a fast reaction off the floor.