Q I’ve been invited to a party on a Friday night. The problem is that I’ve already entered a 10-miler on the following Sunday, and it’s one I’ve trained hard for so that I can get a personal best. Can I drink alcohol on Friday and still run well

whole-grain, rather than refined-grain products keeps waistlines trim. Research suggests that refined-grain eaters have larger waistlines – possibly related to a lower fibre intake and its impact on controlling body fat. Easy on the alcohol Studies show

Go on – ask me how I’m doing in my new, saintly lifestyle. Fine – I’m doing just great. Not a drop of alcohol has passed my lips in three months, nor a single cup of coffee or tea. No harmless creature has laid down its life to feed me (apart from a

stress, caffeine, alcohol and certain drugs (including some cold cures). Many athletes will experience palpitations, which usually only last a couple of seconds, during their athletic career. Indeed, everyone will experience palpitations at some time

, but it does allow your brain to switch off. You can generally buy it from a good herbalist or online. – Nick KirbyDo you eat before or after your run? When I trained for the London Marathon I used to run at about the same time each evening, and then would have

for Titanic II.So this year, I had a radical rethink If I lacked the willpower to achieve even the most modest of resolutions, perhaps I should set myself a completely impossible goal instead. And so it was that I decided to give up everything. For six months.Alcohol

for myself, but for the entire region. Were I to topple or roll accidentally into the river, for instance, it could cause serious flooding in low-lying areas of the Thames Valley. And so I shall be renouncing alcohol again, immediately after the Viennese

’t broken a sweat since their last council tax demand simultaneously challenged each other to run from Greenwich to Westminster.What in God’s name can have possessed them? Artificial bravado, of course, induced by mild alcoholic poisoning. That

’s friend, Ken. I’d subdued my stomach with four Rennies, but I knew it was a temporary measure at best.A tune resonated stupidly around my head on an endless loop. A mild case of alcoholic poisoning will often produce Bryan Hyland’s Sealed With A Kiss

, it might have been a scene from an avant-garde ballet in which Barbie searches for Ken, now a psychotic Vietnam War veteran in the final stages of alcoholic dissolution. The elegant hotels of Santa Monica gave way to the bars and psychedelic facades