MuleBar Kicks Lemon Zinger Gel, £1.50Alison says: The folk at MuleBar have a great reptuation for creating tasty, natural, ethically-sourced refuelling products for energetic endurance athletes. For 2012, they've fine tuned three exisiting flavour

Threshold Pace (LTP) Your lactate threshold pace (LTP) is the running pace above which amounts of lactic acid begin to accumulate in the blood. Scientists believe that this leads to increased fatigue during running. If you can improve your LTP, you’ll get

help you to overcome the fatigue that's inevitable if you're pushing the pace. This is a hot topic in the scientific community at the moment. "In general physiology dictates maximum sustainable pace, but there is much debate regarding the causes

-second recovery between each, then 8 times 100m. If you can run 100m repeats with fatigue in your legs, you’ll be a winner. This session has everything and I encourage everyone from 1500m runners to 5K and 10K runners to do it.” That explains how

pace above which amounts of lactic acid begin to accumulate in the blood. Scientists believe that this leads to increased fatigue during running. If you can improve your LTP, you’ll get faster – it’s that simple. A six per cent improvement in LTP

to athletes and to the belief that fatigue is caused by dehydration so that replacing more fluid than is lost will ensure optimum performance. I find no scientific support for either belief," he says. Modest dehydration is a normal and temporary condition