, should certainly be enough at this stage. — Bruce Tulloh, RW Coaching Editor

or four times a week.The fit cross-trainerEven if you do other sports such as cycling, canoeing or football, marathon running is different because you will be supporting your own bodyweight and hitting the road 8000 times an hour for hours on end. Your

enthusiasm, wearing a groove around the football field, racing the trams in the streets of Shau Ki Wan. In that year, aged 19, I broke five minutes for the mile at last, although I didn’t beat 60 seconds for 400m. I was second at the Minor Units Championships