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From nervous first-timers to injury-frustrated veterans, self-confessed plodders to sub-1:25 hopefuls, over the last few months our six Bupa Great North Run hopefuls have been sharing all their training highs and lows right here online.
Experienced half-marathon runner and UK club coach, Steve Smythe, has been dishing up real-time training advice live in the forums and each of the runners have been getting their teeth into personalised nutrition guidance from the sports scientists at Lucozade Sport.
And that's not all: our team also met and trained alongside Lucozade Sport running ambassador and Olympic marathon runner Liz Yelling (don't miss Liz's half-marathon training advice here).
Now, with the race behind them, it's time to reflect on their race-day experience and the rollercoaster journey of the last eleven weeks ...
Introducing the experts...
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The Coach: Steve Smythe
Experienced club coach and former RW contributor Steve Smythe has run some 100 half-marathons, averaging 76 minutes and with a current PB of 70 minutes. He has also coached a club team that won the British Women's Half-Marathon Championships, who with an average age of almost 50, all set PBs. One of the athletes also finished third in the British Half-Marathon Championships and during her career has won the Hastings, Reading, Paddock Wood, Tunbridge Wells, Hereford and Dartford Half -Marathons. |
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The Sports Scientists: Tommy, Tess, Phil, Jaymie and Sarah
The Lucozade Sport Performance Team (LSPT) is a team of dedicated sports scientists based across the UK who attend sporting events and clubs to provide sports nutrition and hydration advice. Each of the team perform at a high level in their chosen sports and use their education and own experiences to provide key information at seminars and in the nutrition plans they create.
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