on your existing fitness, not leave your body overworked.5. If you wear a heart-rate monitor, accept that it’s normal for your heart rate to be approximately 10 beats per minute lower in sports such as cycling or rowing. Use this figure as a rough guide
through the rolling countryside, but these shouldn’t deter any novices keen to debut at this distance. A high return rate ensures a sense of camaraderie among the field, while the promise of a race memento for all finishers – last year there was the choice
the race. Your digestion is slowing down - hence the dry mouth and butterflies - but your breathing should be speeding up, your heart rate increasing and sugar and fat pouring into the blood. Good things if you are racing. – CC(O)C(=O)OIt might be a cliché
-miling. Just keep going at the same effort level rather than worrying about speed. A heart-rate monitor is a good way of judging effort but you can just judge how you feel too. This may mean that initially you are walking up the hill, but you will find
energy gels as my heart rate is faster and I'm doing the extra distance. I love the SIS gels as they're isotonic, so you don't have to worry about getting the right proportion of water with them. I take my first one just before the starting gun, then one
up the roads."AT: "Organising your own event is not for the faint-hearted. The council will expect you to have public liability insurance cover (up to £10 million) and as a new event, you’re not going to be able to get this privately. You’ll have
, the Dartmoor Vale Marathon may be a relative newcomer to the UK marathon calendar, but given the positive feedback in these RW race ratings, it’s definitely one to earmark for the future.Marathon first-timer and local runner Tickety Boo explains its appeal: "A
