training twice a week can increase power endurance by 17 per cent. After a few weeks of general training, do star jumps twice a week. Stand straight, then bend your legs and form a crouch position. Swiftly jump up and open your arms and legs in midair

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

Great Britain and Ireland and is a keen participant in the Ironman event.If you struggle with race day nerves, motivation or need some tips on how to cope when the going gets tough in a race, Victor will be on hand to help.Q1. Here's a curve ball, I

't improve when time is limited.TRAINING SMART      Plenty of triathletes with full-time jobs and families have gone on to achieve great things in endurance sport. James Gilfillan, for instance, is a busy town planner for Poole Council in Dorset. He

so much support, friendship and awe-inspiring guts to the sport, motivating the thousands of runners they meet both at races and on the runnersworld.co.uk forums.The Fundraiser Eric Hardwick Eric Hardwick is not your average charity fundraiser

to be for that week (at least) and what each session is supposed to achieve. Write a list of your motives and goals and how it all works in the bigger picture, from fartleks to longer endurance runs. On a purely practical level, this means that you can get the right

in the fight against cancer, the necessity) of remaining famous and influential. During an interview after his training run, a similar dichotomy revealed itself in his marathon goals. On one side: his hubris and innate ability to endure extreme physical

this – I am now an endurance athlete. Yeah, baby… that is what I am putting on the CV from now on." (More from this story)Jo on how she took the plunge and offered her 10-minute mile pace to her local running club… "Now there’s one thing I really hate, more