Runners are a busy bunch. Too often, we push back our speed, fitness or weight-loss goals when life gets in the way. The focused workouts over the following pages are designed to make you faster, stronger and fitter - in however many minutes you can

Andy Dixon, Editor-in-ChiefRunner since: 2007Biggest running achievement in 2011: Achieving a new marathon PB (3:08:33) at Boston in April. I trained hard for four months, gave up booze and organised weekends around long runs, so it was nice when all the hard work came to fruitio...

you find your magic miling number.Rule #1 Longer race, higher mileage. Yes you can overcook the penguin, but a marathoner will always need to log more miles than a 5K runner. Rule #2 Tougher goals, higher mileage. If you're seeking to simply finish

walk from the sheer weight of traffic. If I wanted to salvage any time goals I would have to do something about it. I started weaving from left to right on the course - in and out of people, dashing for any open space I could find. I wasn’t the only one

and set goals for the following year. “The winter months are the ideal time to put the building blocks in place that will get you faster and stronger next season," says Darren Connaghan, Level 2 Triathlon Coach at Brighton based WeAreTri.It's also the time

Yet too often disaster strikes on race day – we’re hobbled by cramp, gutted by stomach distress or hampered by unforeseen demons. To help you dodge all this, runners have shared their tales of race days gone bad. For the common horror stories, our experts provide invaluable advic...

for an easier adaptation.’ For seasoned runners, mixing up a tough workout provides respite from the grind of hitting splits and a chance to tune in to how an effort feels (rather than how it looks on a watch). Whatever your goals, injecting playtime into your

So whose bright idea was it to run the London Marathon? After all, there are better ways to celebrate being 50.Anyway, having 'made my bed' I lined up (or rather cuddled up) with all those other runners who'd decided that the best way to celebrate or commemorate was to run 26.2 m...

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I had a place in the London Marathon in 2003 but unfortunately had to pull out after doing all of the training, as I had a chest infection during the taper.  It was particulary sad because Dad was dying in hospital and was really looking forward to watching it on the TV during th...