It's 3am on the night before the final stage and I'm sobbing into my sleeping bag. Like every other night, I'm struggling to sleep because the blisters on my feet are so painful. With only one 17K stage to go, I should be feeling confident that I can finish but I'm in so much pai...

big race with a big atmosphere. Much of that atmosphere is created by the Japanese, who provide the majority of the 30,000 runners in the field, most of the supporters and the event’s big sponsors. Although the race starts painfully early

from the effort of picking up the rejection mailshot from the floor.But many look elsewhere for a marathon. Some go abroad and race in a big city event elsewhere. Others look to one of the smaller British spring marathons instead - there are at least

of each other.As for Britain's overall performance, tonight's women's 4x400m bronze, added to the bronze our men's sprint relay team won last night, means that we collected five medals (three in individual events) in total, putting us 10th in the medals

-marathon event, enter the Atlantic Coast Challenge in October and attempt to complete three marathons in three days.Spend time in the sauna to try to get used to the level of heat. Watch out for hot spells and go for long runs at the hottest part of the day

month later she won Ironman Regensburg and at the end of August she won Ironman Canada, in a course record time of 9:03:13. She is in blistering form but three Ironman races in relatively quick succession may take their toll in the fierce heat of Kona

that allows you to enjoy the event as much as the spectators cheering you on?When Tom Day started running for Leukaemia Research after his father was diagnosed with the disease, he decided to become part of the charity's Banana Army at last year's London

in the triple jump (clearly not a great day for British athletics), this was the world stage and every race was kicked off with enormous cheers, music pumping out, people dancing, clapping. I was ecstatic to see the ladies' 400m heats (my event, in another

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and a cooling hose down near the finish helped runners fly in Flyde, despite the midsummer heat. This event is the UK’s oldest half-marathon. Runners once again dashed around flat roads to rousing cheers from locals before collecting a rucksack memento