When Isla Lough was born, the bookies offered odds of 100-1 that the daughter of the marathon world-record holder Paula Radcliffe would one day win the Flora London Marathon. A safer bet would have been to predict that Radcliffe would give birth

the Flora London Marathon.The point of a training programme is not only to help you incrementally run faster or longer – it should also tell you what you are capable of in a race. You plan your training, do the same thing for the race. If your race plan

. The time was also an age-group British record, and is good enough to put her on the elite start at the 2006 Flora London Marathon alongside the slightly younger likes of Paula Radcliffe.It’s running in such youthful company, albeit generally on a more