You've probably had a busy start to the year. Not only do you have to fit training around your work commitments, family and social life, but you also have to decide what training to do, when, for how long and how hard. With so much to occupy your

to tweaking your training, to eating race-friendly foods. If you're a Runner's World UK magazine subscriber, you can see all 9 PB-busting tips here. Otherwise, enjoy these two as a preview - and if you want to subscribe, you can save 30% right here.Strong Legs

Monday: three-hour bike ride; 90-minutes weights; 40-minute swim. Tuesday: 60-minute swim; 90-minute run. Wednesday: two-hour bike ride; 60-minute swim. That might be the start of the training week for a professional triathlete. But they don't have

finding that you're injuring yourself more frequently than seems normal.And even if you're lucky enough to avoid injury or dejection, you may simply be finding that your training runs have become boring. Whatever the situation, you need to do something

climbers produce six to seven watts per kilogram, but if you can hit even five, that will be amazing. High-intensity training can raise your wattage by around five per cent over a season. Try this sure-fire strategy: climb for 10 to 30 minutes at or near

of some of the country's finest athletes and a sports scientist, we've come up with a list of the most common training and race-day misdemeanours and the tips you need to tackle or avoid them. These people have experienced them all, so now you don't have

can be tricky, so practise by teaming up with a training partner and learning from each other's mistakes. Youtube also has some good examples of cycle dismounts if you need some visual how-to tips. 

Sooner or later, all triathletes hit the deck, and the result, more often than not, is road rash. Thankfully, such abrasions usually require only basic care, but it must be the right care. Dr Helen Iams has worked as Medical Director for races such as the US Pro Criterium Champio...

Once you’ve worked out which lever on your bike shifts to a harder gear and which makes pedalling easier, you should know how to change gear, right? Perhaps, but it takes practice to avoid that grinding mis-shift, says mountain bike Olympian Andreas Hestler, who’s also raced on t...

and you don't want to go with them.Try this now: Train with a friend and take it in turns to swim on each other's feet.Take heartIn the bike and run sections you can take in air whenever you like, but when you're swimming you can only breathe at a certain