When you first take up running, what gets you out the door is sheer enjoyment. It's this that motivates you to complete your first race (and fans the desire to target your second and third...) and gives you the immense satisfaction of putting a hard
world-class athletics events on home soil, support the Aviva GB and NI junior, senior and disability teams as they prepare for all major events and championships, and through the Aviva UKA Academy aim by 2012 to give every child in the UK the opportunity
to the podium. Working with UKA this year, we'll stage six world-class athletics events on home soil, support the Aviva GB and NI junior, senior and disability teams as they prepare for all major events and championships, and through the Aviva UKA Academy aim
ProfileNAME: Pete KennedyAGE: 35GOAL: To get satisfaction from his running with limited time to trainHOW HE ACHIEVED IT: Concentrated on quality sessions, and got involved in non-standard eventsImagine this: You are granted an extra two hours in a
months ahead of time guarantees your entry, avoids late fees and, most importantly, commits you to the training because you don’t want to waste the cash. ‘This early investment in a race supplies you with motivation because it’s a concrete step,’ says
an easy-to-run event that allowed anyone to come and race whenever it suited them. "Make it simple, make it free," was his aim. He didn't half pull it off. The thriving parkrun series is a true running phenomenon. What began five years ago as a small
contribution to making the world a better place through fundraising, and this will be an individual who has gone the extra mile to reach a fundraising target or perhaps a race organiser whose events have consistently put fundraising at their heart.Email your
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to deliver the commencement address at Tufts University; to California for the first of five LiveStrong Challenges, a series of cycling, running, and fund-raising events for the Lance Armstrong Foundation; to Europe for the final week of the Tour de France
, and they all get so much from listening to each other; it's very motivational," he says.2. Go the extra mile If you haven't changed your race distance since you started triathlons, then the chances are your training hasn't change much, either. Even if you
