When Nike brought Paula Radcliffe, Paul Tergat and Sebastian Coe to the Flora London Marathon Exhibition, they exclusively invited runnersworld.co.uk members to add their own questions to the official line-up. Here's what they had to say
“Dead and buried” was pretty much the consensus on Sebastian Coe’s career following the 1980 Olympic 800m final. He’d been widely expected to win but although he’d taken silver, he’d run dismally. His chances of winning the 1500m later that week
Few runners can be called legends - but Steve Cram is surely one of them. The ‘Jarrow Arrow’ was pitted against Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe in a decade of edge-of-the-seat athletics throughout the 1980s.Over an illustrious career studded
experiences a runner will encounter. That’s certainly the way Sebastian Coe remembers it.In 1980, when preparing in Italy for the Moscow Olympic Games, where he won the 1500m, Coe found himself, almost by default, on the road towards Milan. In wonderful shape
and harder, and your pace drops off." Then again, you could always take Seb Coe's lead by starting fast and seeing how long you can hang on for...Kick for the finishHow far from the finish line you up your pace depends on your natural ability. "It's really
national favourite as an athletics pundit for the BBC. Denise reveals what she really feels about Jessica Ennis claiming her British heptathlon record, why she still gets starstruck around Sebastian Coe and why she’s thrown out the scales for good.My most
-twitch and slow-twitch, but there are also intermediate fibres which are affected by training. Sebastian Coe can move down to being a sub-47-second 400m runner or up to being a sub-50-minutes 10-miler. Rod Dixon moved up from being a world-class 1500m runner
Jostling for space as the runners get goingYou’d have to run laps around the Queen’s bedroom to get an event more regal than 25th Windsor Half Marathon. With Lord Seb Coe firing the starting pistol, Windsor Castle rarely out of sight and a route
. That same year, another Briton, Diane Leather, was the first woman to have ever run a sub-five-minute mile. The 1980s saw a resurgence of British talent, with Sebastian Coe, Steve Ovett and Steve Cram passing the world record between them like a relay baton
The Olympians who inspired me were Daley Thompson in Moscow, Seb Coe and Steve Ovett and Shirley Strong in 1984 winning the silver medal in the hurdles. I was also a real Edwin Moses fan.This summer I’m looking forward to watching Jess Ennis compete. It’s going
