excellent cross-training for running, but to run a half-marathon well you also have to get used to spending a long time on your feet. I suggest that you use the days when you run to get in as many miles as possible maybe a 15-16 mile run on the Sunday, a
, then increase the pace.—Bruce Tulloh, coach
. The length of time you'll stay at that level will largely depend on how long you've been training and how fit you've become, but now is the time to take advantage of it.Run another marathon? You must be joking!If you crossed the finish line chanting
Getty ImagesIf youve applied for a place in the Virgin London Marathon, youll know by early October whether youve been successful. You have ample training time in the period between starting your training schedules in early January and the big
, should certainly be enough at this stage. Bruce Tulloh, RW Coaching Editor
UAN: Article type:uan153-->It was our prep school cross-country, November 1947; the few of us who were serious athletes were running through the streets of Saltburn-on-Sea, back towards the school. There was me, the Robinson twins and a boy called
on the fringe of the national team until, by training 30 miles a day, he became European champion at 5000m and 10,000m.The natural-born sprinter has a high proportion of fast-twitch fibres and middle-distance runners probably have about equal amounts of fast
Speed, like weight loss, is a simple concept. The only way to run faster is to run faster. What that means in practice, especially for a beginner, is moving from a single-speed run to variable paced training. This is initially difficult because
