“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

-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

with Craig Masback, a legendary American miler from the Coe/Ovett era. After Bannister ran 3:59.4 at Oxford University's Iffley Road track, no one else broke four minutes there until Masback, a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, achieved it on June 17, 1978. Masback

Donald's fan. I don't really get a craving for that sort of thing and I've never had a Big Mac. But I think you can have everything in moderation, just as long as you're not in there every day.Paula with Lord Seb Coe at the Run London launchAbout Nike Training