. "I might have to pee during the race."Think you'll be the first? Any time a group of hydrated, nervous people gather, nature will call. It's a fact of life. Be discreet and no one will notice your pit stop."I'm eating the wrong food before my race
Redefine your limits Show your brain what your body can really do Think you consciously decided how fast you were going to run today? Think again. At the University of Cape Town, two groups of cyclists completed time trials in the hot and the cold
; so is running with a crowd that's too quick. So allow more recovery in the future, or pick a slower group next time and accept that it may take a while to get up to speed to run with the cheetahs. On the other hand, you might just be having an off day
people so you motivate each other. Do a road or cross-country race and use the treadmills together at your local gym. Join a tri club and use the sessions and advice on offer." - Tim Don "Tell yourself that training in the miserable winter makes you a
with total flexibility in terms of how and when to clock up those miles. Online running community fetcheveryone.com has monthly mileage groups, which are great for motivation. You could even run the year – 2010 miles works out as 38.5 per week! Start a
the most of our nutrition archive. There’s plenty to satisfy the curiosity of runners simply looking to improve their diet and internal well-being, from understanding food-group basics and vitamins and supplements to easy-to-make mouth-watering recipes
to stir up your routine. When you do the same run, day after day, you’re seldom challenged and your motivation is bound to sag. Think of it this way: if you eat a tuna and salad sandwich four days in a row, you’ll probably notice how delicious a different
and running career. Vitamins, minerals and antioxidants should be as much a part of your healthy diet as carbohydrate and protein. Fuelling yourself with fatty, salty processed food is like putting diesel in your Ferrari.Oil changeSwitching the oils you use
able to make it round the athletics track in under 90 seconds and without finding it fascinating to discuss the relative merits of control versus stability shoes. Not everyone feels the need to be coached as part of a group – after all, getting away
, but it hasn’t been as by-the-book as a lot of people do. You see these groups in Austin training for the marathon and they really build up to it. But again, our schedule isn’t conducive to that. Are you doing any heart-rate work? No.Do you run on treadmills
