'd recommend getting in a few 5K, 10K, half marathons etc before you try a marathon."Every RW member knows that it's a bad idea to run any marathon when you've got barely any running experience and have done precious little training. The pulling power of London

–9K mark, it’s generally fast, flat and beginner-friendly. There’s also a 5K and a 1K for under-8s; medals, T-shirts and chocolate; and the chance to boost the total of £30,000 raised so far for a new Leukaemia Centre at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Building, the route runs along a brand new road, heading north towards the Crowne Plaza and the Atlantic Tower, before a swift u-turn at 1.5K. Then it's simply a case of counting off the sights of the city as you race past the Albert Docks, the Anglican

as anyone training for their first 5K, 10K or marathon – whatever the distance, it’s the same nerves. Hoping that I’ve done enough, thankful to have stayed injury-free. I swing wildly from being scared to feeling calm because I know worrying at this stage

Series (Norfolk, May 6 and May 20) Promenade 5K (Hampshire, May 7) Beaverbrooks Blackpool 10K (Lancashire, May 10) Bexhill Seafront Series (East Sussex, May 29 and July 29)Ramsbury Circuit 5 (Wiltshire, May 17) Spend your Sunday morning

those 386 were 30 former street children who ran the 5K race. Then there was Sally Koroma, who crossed the finish line of the full 26.2-miler in 4:20, becoming the first-ever Salonean woman to run a marathon on home turf. She did this, by the way