.marathondumedoc.com © Getty ImagesSwiss Alpine Running Festival If majestic mountains and heart-stopping hills are your idea of running heaven, the Swiss Alpine Running Festival offers a variety of events from a half-marathon to a 78K ultra that could well be the hardest
is a safe strategy if you're racing yourself and the clock rather than other runners. Steve Smythe, a coach and marathon runner, suggests easing into the pace that you intend to run at. "Try to reach the halfway point in roughly half of your goal time
that translates to the marathon and sometimes it doesn't so I'm trying not to think about the competition too much but focus on my own race, relax and enjoy it.I have a race plan. If I can run away from the field at half way and never look back, like Paula
or attempt 30,000 feet of climbing in a single race? Whether you’re looking for a half-marathon through the vineyards of Champagne or a mountain trail race to test every fibre of your being, there’s a perfect race for you in France. Here’s our pick
marathon a staggering 12 minutes 36 seconds faster. And if the same improvement in leg-muscle power helps to improve your stride length by just half an inch, you’ll gain almost 500m, which could be another two minutes off your time.Doing strengthening
second in the time on the ground per foot-strike translates into running a marathon a staggering 12 minutes 36 seconds faster. And if the same improvement in leg-muscle power helps to improve your stride length by just half an inch, you’ll gain almost 500
Street Party: 8,000 runners line up at the startSix hours, 42 kilometres, 23 glasses of wine. Not my normal race strategy, but then this was not a normal race. The festival of wine and running that is the Medoc Marathon used to be a well
but it keeps me motivated," he says. "As long as I’m improving, I’m happy." Constant improvement is the aim, and Agyei has a pragmatic approach. "If I stop improving at shorter distances I might start running half-marathons," he laughs. His PE teacher would
-strong three-time Ironman World Champion. Surely things must be bad for Chrissie to pull out of what everyone had predicted would be her fourth win in a row?Without Chrissie, the women's race was wide open as the pros set off at 6.30am. Half an hour later
that it's a good idea to limit dehydration as you run, in the real world many runners completing marathons between three and four hours do so with a level of dehydration between two and five per cent. So, if you've been following current guidelines
