to as little as possible, or binge-eating and purging or excessive exercising – will impair your performance, and can damage your health permanently.Eating disorders are more common among male and female runners than among the average population. Sometimes

?Staying HealthyWill giving up smoking improve my running? Can running help me recover from an eating disorder?Should I run if I've got a cold? Why do I find it so hard to drop off after an evening run?Are black toenails just a fact of running life, or can

physical and mental stress of over-training and disordered eating, may not gain these benefits. Several studies have shown women who have disrupted menstrual cycles suffer more stess fractures than their counterparts with normal cycles. These women

warned about the fast first section so I concentrated on eating, drinking and keeping up a reasonable pace. Seeing my family was magic and I grinned more and more as the day went on. My plan had always been to run the whole marathon, but this strategy

weight loss 54.5 lbs, ran 10 miles last Sunday and also completed a 32 mile bike ride. On Friday 26th May I completed a race; it was a spur of the moment decision and I entered online after finding the event on the Runner's World website… It was good