. Liz Yelling Liz has been competing as a top international athlete for more than 15 years. In 2006, she won the Bronze medal in the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne and she has twice represented Great Britain in the Olympics (Athens 2004 and Beijing

selection day in Birmingham on December 4 2010, where you will meet the coaches, PRO Team experts and Runner's World staff to assess your health, fitness and injury history. Shortly after the selection day, we will choose a final shortlist of 18-24 runners

. A 10st runner who completes the marathon in 4:20 is just as strong as the 10st elite competitor who finishes in 2:10, since both have moved the same weight a distance of 26.2 miles. However, the 2:10 guy is the more powerful (and speedier) runner

of the 1968 Mexico City Olympics) to Joan Samuelson, Alberto Salazar and Peter Gilmore, the unsung American marathon runner who ran 2:12:45 at Boston last April. Daniels has also coached the less fleet of foot, including small-college runners at Cortland State

to wear your MP3 player on a training run, then so be it. But if you are in an environment where you may end up impeding another runner or road user, or perhaps even endangering your life, best leave it at home! Born2Run As a race director we

to keep your Champion chip timing device, which is a unique design every year. The race is limited to 20,000 runners and always sells out.Race website: www.20kmparis.com Marathon du Cognac (November)2009 Date: tbcLike the Medoc Marathon near Bordeaux

. If everyone else increased their mileage by 10 per cent per week, then I’d increase mine by 20 per cent. Eventually, I learned that improvement comes when you learn to balance effort and recovery. Now I know that I need to mix lots of easy-run days around my

runners - from Mo Farah to Paula Radcliffe - and the benefits for track and road runners are manifold. Farah, who bagged gold in the European Cross-Country Championships in 2006 and silver in 2009, recently became the first athlete in 20 years to win

of maximal heart rate is another option, but the appropriate percentage does vary between individuals. In elite male middle- and long-distance runners tested in my lab, the average heart rate at threshold was as high as 93 per cent of MHR, compared to 85 per

, unless further damage is suspected in an elite sportsperson, when an ultrasound or muscle scan might be applicable.What else could it be?This is where the difficulties start, as the symptoms may be very similar to those experienced where the pubic bones