It's unlikely that your club will hire a gritter lorry if its Tartan track succumbs to black ice, but speedwork doesn't necessarily mean a track session. You can take some of your favourite track sessions on to the road. In general, this means running for time

to these and some people are more susceptible than others. Try applying ice over the painful area for 20 minutes after the strain occurs.The jury is still out as to whether it is helpful to stretch before you run. In your case, it doesn’t appear to be helping. Try

runner, start acting like one. When Paula Radcliffe isn't running she does everything she can to speed her recovery. It would not be unusual to see her mixing her protein drink at track side after finishing an interval session or rushing home for an ice

Did I ever tell you about the time I nearly froze to death on the remote Atlantic island of South Georgia? While running solo across the ice cap, I’d fallen into a swamp of frozen guano. My blood had attained the colour and consistency

of the new Ice Age. Only days before, a tornado had cruised majestically up the Humber, and Hull was buried under hailstones the size and weight of hedgehogs. With Oscar The World’s Fittest Dog at my side, I climbed out of the sleepy fishing village

gazelles across the next tract of filthy bogland. Seaton was supposed to be crippled. He confided to me, “If I can’t manage this, I can’t in all conscience go to New Zealand for the Completely Stupid Blindfold Ice Abseiling 500.” The CSBIA is just another

and spend six hours in an ice bath; (B) Run 100 miles a week and accompany it with six hours of sports massage at £50 an hour; or (C) Run 50 miles a week and have plenty of time for The Apprentice.Here's the twist: scientists don't know for sure whether A

, swimming, and weight lifting are great most of the year, as part of low-key training months when your main goals are general fitness and injury prevention, but the heavy training month before a big race needs to be a month of living a little dangerously

to fix herself and get back into the swing of her running again. She has done all the rehab exercises ever created, used enough ice to cause an avalanche and been diligent, controlled and very cautious. Reaching the start of a marathon is very much a

surface varies between machines – some are far softer than others.Pros: The smooth surface is generally easy on the legs, and hitting a desired pace is simply a matter of adjusting the machine (as long as you can keep up!). Additionally, you don’t have