drastic low-fat diets: you need healthy fats to absorb fat-soluble vitamin D (and vitamins A and E). Beat it: At Munich University, Germany, runners who drank two pints of non-alcoholic beer daily for three weeks had more killer T-cells, which indicate a
-tune your running? Take this quick quiz to find out.The Perfect PlaylistRunners who listen to music know its motivating power, but what exactly does a great running song sound like?Extended PlayLearn how to compile a compelling playlist to keep you running
of real-life runners from Runners World readers to Runners World staff, scientific researchers to elite athletes and asked them point-blank: what training methods have worked best for you?Their answers were as varied and imaginative as runners
Every running parent – elite or beginner, sprint or endurance – wants their child to grow up fit, healthy and active. And of course there will be a bias towards running as a means to that end. But kids being kids, it’s never going
enthusiasm can help you run further or faster than ever before.The worlds elite runners have trained together for decades. Each year the world-beating Kenyans meet up at six different training camps in their homeland to prepare for the up-and-coming cross
Winning gold at the British Masters Athletics Championships 2006Most of us can only dream of becoming a world-class athlete. For regular forumite Ceal (aka Cecilia Morrison) though, life as one of the global elite is a day-to-day reality
was not a successful or willing runner," he says, "I was the youngest in my age group and I was continually beaten and lost all motivation, stopped running and took up smoking instead."Like many reluctant PE-class attendees, Agyei rediscovered sport later
.Breathe EasierYou probably don’t think much about your breathing – which is precisely why you should. “Most elite runners use a two-two breathing pattern – breathing in for two steps and out for two steps,” says long-time running coach and exercise physiologist
