This year, an amazing 750,000 women will be walking, jogging or running in a women-only Race for Life 5K. They'll help to raise a whopping £46 million for Cancer Research UK across 240 events. Will you be one of them?We're here to help you every

, then take the evening off. Any exercise you do now won't improve your race performance, but it could prove detrimental - at best it'll tire you out, at worst you might pull something on the trot home. Commute by train or car? Then try to bag a seat

of your long run at race pace," says Anderson. "But you have to build this up over months and layer on the amounts of race pace you practise." Fail to practise this in training and you're unlikely to improve. "Many runners train at an easy pace with a few

One of the long-enduring and rarely questioned traditions associated with triathlon events of all kinds is the substantial pasta dinner the evening before race day. After all, who doesn't believe in the hearty, turbo-fuelling advantages of eating a

? What would you do differently to improve a future performance?RACING AHEADFinally with the weekend over and the race completed, you can congratulate yourself on all the positives in your performance and take a short break while you decide how you