.To help make all this happen, here's our first-ever beginners' racing guide. Here, you'll find everything that you need to know – from tips on nutrition and warm-ups, to race-day strategies and recovery techniques. Race DayRace day can be intimidating
At some point early on, a beginner learns that 99.9 per cent of runners are pleasant, helpful people.This realisation usually dawns when a beginner meets a veteran at a race or on a training run, and theveteran starts sharing his or her enthusiasm
, the stories grew more and more preposterous. “How hard can it be?” I wondered.On our way up to the Blue Ridge Parkway, deep in the Smoky Mountains outside Asheville, North Carolina, the pockmarked gravel road seemed harmless enough. The lush scenery betrayed
until you can perform three or four of these breaths in a minute. Do this while treading water before moving into the deep-water start position, floating on your front, hands gently sculling.Don't bother putting plastic bags over your feet to help you
whenever I train. It doesn't matter what distance, how frequently, or what intensity - if the muscles are in use, they start going really tight. The only way I seem to be able to keep myself from having painfully tight muscles is to stretch everything
