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In The Long Run
By Andy Richardson on 30/03/2006 15:29:43
Run now and forever: here's how
. Don't push through to make yourself tougher and stronger: it simply doesn't work.2 Follow hard with easy Most elite runners follow each hard day with an easy day of training to allow their bodies to recover. You are not an elite runner ignore
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Sound Mind, Sound Body: How to Beat Pre-Race Nerves
By Andy Lane, Ruth Emmett on 01/11/2010 12:34:58
Professor of Psychology Andy Lane explains how positive thinking can improve performance
. We tried and tested five ways of boosting runners' moods. Before following the strategies, most of the runners under-performed; afterwards, 70 per cent of them improved their performances. Here are the secrets of their success.Strategy 1: If
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Races of the Year 2010: 10K
By on 17/01/2011 09:23:50
Here they are, with no further ado - your top 19 10K races of 2010
1. Trionium New Year Box Hill Knacker Cracker 10KSurrey, January 1 What better way to kick off the year than by running one of the UK's toughest 10Ks? The course over the North Downs is picturesque, but most of the runners have no time to sightsee
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Q+A: Marathon training is slowing my other times..
By Bud Baldaro on 09/09/2002 17:45:51
Our experts answer real-life questions
yourself whether youve fully recovered from all the marathon running youve been doing in the last year and a half. The marathon asks a lot of even elite runners, which is why they limit themselves to only a few each year.You need at least four to six
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Snapped! Your Marathon-Finish Shots
By Runner's World on 24/04/2006 16:37:05
At the end of the 2006 Flora London Marathon, RW's photographer asked you to draw how you felt. Here are some of the results
imagined. If I had to give one piece of advice it would to start slow and not go out too quick. Now all I have to do is remember that for next year."Kerry Petulla, 3:14"That was my first elite start and it was a complete buzz lining-up. What made a
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UK's Best Running Club 2009: The Winner
By Runner's World on 24/04/2009 11:11:19
Sponsored By New Balance. Join us in recognising the achievements of clubs up and down the country
is still the only running brand to make all its elite running shoes in the UK. In fact, across all product categories, 73 per cent of demand is supplied by British factories. To find out more, go to newbalance.co.uk.
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My 2004 London Marathon
By Gary Kent on 26/04/2004 10:10:45
How was it for you? - Quotes and pictures from London 04
, and they were purgatory, the crowds along the embankment managed to lift me to get easily to the finish though! It was also very depressing at the 13 mile mark seeing the elite runners coming the other way, 9 miles ahead of me!, mind you that feeling was later
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Hard Training - With Mike Gratton
By Runner's World on 06/06/2004 14:24:12
See how former London Marathon winner Mike Gratton advises a cluster of RW members about moving their training to the next level
:45 in spring. how can I hit it in autumn?• Female, high-mileage: advice on getting from 3:26 to sub-3:15 marathonNUTRITION• What do elites drink in a marathon?• Nutrition: carbo-depletion/carbo-loadingMISC• Should I race a 5K and a half in the same week
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Reader to Reader: Why Train With a Backpack?
By Jane Hoskyn on 07/09/2006 12:01:27
Useful for training or just a macho thing?
on the back)? Why don't runners who feel the need to do this just run a training session faster...? I've never heard of an elite athlete saying that this type of weight training has contributed to their success. It's almost exclusively men that do it, so
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The Inner Penguin
By John Bingham on 27/11/2003 14:21:56
There's a penguin in all of us, whether we're fast or slow
was astonished. He had talent, skill and the body of an elite runner. How could he be a penguin? I thought he was just being kind, and so I told him that he must be wrong.“No,” he said, smiling. “I don’t run like a penguin, but I’m in touch with my inner penguin
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