, sand and intensity of the MdS, but smart training will get you as close as possible. Nail down a long-term training plan and sign up for an ultra or two (there are a growing number of multi-day stage races on our events listings). For a pre-race multi-marathon

other, not just during this relay helping out whenever someone's stuck and need to change their schedule, but also at other events.  It's like one big family now, " explains Runnaholic.The close-knit Coasters GB community and the epic distance covered

though, I had taken up running, done a half-marathon and a couple of try-a-tris. It was a pretty bad year – I’d finished a relationship and wanted a new focus. Completing an Ironman by 40 sounded good but I was 38 and rapidly twigged that as most IMs fall

in useful at the start/finish lap point.RW member RichK had got to mile four with his camera before heading off to the Dartford half-marathon, and by that time I was feeling much calmer, just focusing on each mile as I went.As I got to the end of the first

well). If people feel involved in what you are doing, they're more likely to support you.3. Use your imaginationDare to be different in your approach. When Scott ran his five-and-a-half-day marathon, he raised more than £100,000 for the Cancer

......" Read the full quoteChuff; 4:14 "...the most amazing event I have ever had the pleasure of taking part in...." Read the full quoteAJH; 4:16 "I first said I'd do the marathon when I was 15.... took a while, I'm 34 now..." Read the full quoteVaseline; 4

, and the miles were packed in. I did four marathons in the build up to Dartmoor, three of them at slightly easier than race pace, and one with a two-mile warm up beforehand. Lots of half marathons, again, not always at race pace, fitted in between.Others had

-->"I'll overtake her when I've finished waving to my fans" (Whippit, 2:54)If you want to relive the 2005 Flora London Marathon, or find out what you missed, this vast collection of reader stories is for you.They make magnificent reading. They come

.Britain's Mara Yamauchi finished a creditable ninth in the women's marathon this morning with a time of 2:32.55. The Oxford-born athlete, who now resides in Tokyo, actually led the race at 30km, but she was cut adrift from the leading pack of eight in the closing