're strong enough to cope with the training. Working at least one strength training session into your weekly schedule pays real dividends, in terms of improved performance, greater endurance and faster overall speed - but it also ensures that you'll spend

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RAF officer and Triathlete's World forumite Rachael Cadman made endurance racing history last week by becoming the first woman to complete the Enduroman Arch2Arc Challenge. Only six men have completed the gruelling feat since 2001 - now it was time

Vitamins are essential for good health. This much we can agree on, but then things quickly become murky. There is so much information, contradictory research and advertising out there about the vitamin needs of endurance athletes, and how

to be the largest ever with 16,000 runners from around Britain and more than 30 countries across the world taking part."The event also holds a longer endurance challenge, the Royal Parks Foundation Ultra, a 50K ultra marathon. The Royal Parks Foundation Half

secondly, endurance work – those long, slow, steady runs you do once a week or so.’ Use this guide to find the perfect formula for each.

that involves a job and a family.The main ingredients of the programme are repetition and interval running, but with an emphasis on continuous, fast-paced runs to build up your speed endurance. Thus, much of your steady running should be at around threshold pace

’s top marathoners are also good 10K runners, and runners of all paces will benefit from occasional shorter races to boost their speed endurance. If, for example, you can run a 10K at seven-minute miling, then cruising through the first 10K of a marathon

for endurance athletes. Several well-designed studies suggest that supplemental BCAAs may improve your exercise performance and help prevent the muscle damage that can occur with heavy training.BCAAs, along with 17 other amino acids, are the building blocks

, sodium, calcium and magnesium in your diet. You can also incorporate plyometric exercises (ie bounding and hopping) into your sessions, to improve the strength and endurance of your leg muscles. An ideal time to incorporate plyometrics is before a speed