and go. Shower and cereal on your return. Any more than that, and it becomes too big a routine to stick to. It's hard enough to go running at 6am in the winter anyway! – Russell HallI did a 14-mile run yesterday morning and didn't have time for breakfast

of a Kelloggs’ breakfast cereal provided more nutrition than the ingredients of your typical mess of brown rice, lysergic acid and boiled- to-buggery courgettes.Or the Raw Pork Sushi Diet of Thatcher’s heartless Eighties, which involved slicing rump

10-mile jaunts – before breakfast, before lunch, before tea and before supper. Why not walk two miles and jog the rest. Follow each session with a drink, a shower and some food. A daily massage would also be a big help. From Christmas to mid-April you

Ron Hill doesn't have to think about running today. It's a given; he's going to do it. After 38 years of running every day without a break (which through to the beginning of December 2002 amounted to 13,880 consecutive days) he's not about

It's unlikely that your club will hire a gritter lorry if its Tartan track succumbs to black ice, but speedwork doesn't necessarily mean a track session. You can take some of your favourite track sessions on to the road. In general, this means running for time

"I'm trying to lose weight, so I always eat breakfast and just have fruit for lunch. But I come home from work quite hungry, and crash if I go for a run before dinner. Any suggestions for a quick energy hit that doesn't involve lots of calories

DiaryWeeks 13 - 14Helen says: Sometimes it feels like all I do is run, work and sleep - bring on the taper! I've had some more great runs and successfully ran 2:39 at the Human Race Kingston Breakfast Run 16 (April 5). Even when I needed to be kicked out

, in which a group of runners added only one thing to their usual training: a weekly, 20-minute continuous run completed at a pace which was about 10-12 seconds per mile slower than 10K race speed. In just a little over three months, these 20-minute sessions

lake for the 200m Skinny Dip and you got arrested for frightening the Muscovy Ducks?”“Yes, but…”“And what about the time we did the Midsummer Madness race and Roger had six pints of Tanglefoot and a cream tea and we had to carry him over the finish line

. Liz Yelling Liz has been competing as a top international athlete for more than 15 years. In 2006, she won the Bronze medal in the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne and she has twice represented Great Britain in the Olympics (Athens 2004 and Beijing