From nervous first-timers to injury-frustrated veterans, self-confessed plodders to sub-1:25 hopefuls, over the last few months our six Bupa Great North Run hopefuls have been sharing all their training highs and lows right here online
coaching the forum threeBecky Smith (aka Becky S): Age: 30PBs: half-marathon 1:47; marathon 3:30Targets sub-20 5K; Great North Run in 1.35; London Marathon 2005: 3:15 Mike thinks:Our first target is to work on leg speed. Read moreDawn (aka Hilly)PBs: 10K 42
Award.All five of the individuals below have been nominated by you, the Runner’s World reader, and all five have had an extraordinary impact on the running community. Like the award’s namesake - Jane Tomlinson - our 2009 nominees’ seemingly boundless
to throw up an appropriate tune just when I'm struggling. Keep on Running, Go Buddy Go etc... – New Runner 63The Floral Dance. Seriously. It really lifts my mood and reminds me of Grandad! – Tortoise of the NorthThe theme tune to Steptoe and Son. – Lyra O
with it, be patient, it will all come back faster than you currently think it will. – Shiva Last year after doing the Great North Run and then the Great Cumbrian Run a few weeks later I went on holiday/moved house/started an OU degree and didn’t run
unless I was forced to by serious illness or injury. Night Nurse I know a couple of runners over 70. One of them I know was even running ultras until a couple of years ago! I can't see that I'll ever stop unless I'm forced to. I started running when I
