Whatever success, or not, our elite endurance runners currently enjoy, there is no question that Britain has a thriving and healthy racing scene. On any given weekend, you can find up to 60 road races around the country, and there are more than 2500

unparalleled power in their thighs. To take the benefits of all three sports, and enjoy the ultimate total-body workout, it's difficult to think of a programme better than triathlon training. The question is, which sport would produce the best triathlete? We

professional military messenger and must have been quite an athlete; able to cover dangerous ground alone, look after himself, commit accurate messages to memory and answer questions when he arrived. If the situation was so desperate why didn’t he use a horse

. Field events: runners made hay while the sun shone Two hours of merciless sun in the station car park elapsed before I was forced to seek urinary relief at the Railway Hotel. Which was deserted. I sidled to the gents, where bizarrely, a loudspeaker

? A unique 10-mile endurance run over the undulating multi-terrain course used in the Parachute Regiment's Selection, with the option to carry a 35lb rucksack and wear military boots for an even tougher challenge. What you say "A really great insight

: the slip-on uppers don’t even have laces.Wang Wei Hua – the girl in question – is one of 85 runners in Tianjiin province today. Our nationalities are as diverse as our abilities – 11 from China, a majority from Denmark (home of the race organisers), half a

may even be following her marathon training programme. A veteran of 181 marathons – 40 of which have been ultras – she is certainly no stranger to endurance events and the physical and mental commitment that goes with them. Why would she put herself

and the contacts to book a swim for 2004, I took my background as a pool swimmer, and applied what I’d learned from years training for long-distance running events in order to begin training. Like marathon training, I built a solid aerobic base, added regular

's heptathlon on Sunday evening - the GB&I team's first, and so far only, medal of the Championships. Immediately afterwards she had the challenge of another event, specific to Osaka - the press conference endurance test. It's somewhat bizarre in an otherwise