:30, and try to stay injury free! Colonel Bah Bloody Humbug The good stuff: 10K PB, getting married (after biking to the loch to meet the minister and my friend, just the two of us!). The not so good stuff: Losing my mojo for a few months. 2010: two marathons

Hard Training Q&AsTRAINING GENERAL• Do I need to take an "easy week" when my average mileage isn’t that high? • Should you try and break through ‘the wall’ in training? • Is it just the cold weather, or am I getting fitter? • How do I overcome

miles in my last race. In 11 years, I had run 603 races, an average of 55 a year. In that time I had only one short period when injury stopped me from training regularly. This owes something, I think, to training a lot on grass and sand, and to running

Your priority is to improve your whole-body strength, because doing so will reduce your risk of injury, increase the consistency of your training and make you a more efficient runner. So, after your warm-up, complete the following circuit:Run 3/4 mile at 10K

injuries, getting colds whatever... and I'd just run through them. In the end, there comes a point when your body says "no more". I personally think it can take up to six weeks to recover properly if you're overtrained. Like recovering from a marathon

in the same week.– Red Haired Girl Down UnderDon't overdo itIf you are that pooped from the run, you are probably overdoing it. Train carefully and slowly, then build intensity, speed and distance gradually. That way you will avoid injury and stay motivated

feeling good it’s easy to push and push, but a failure to listen amid the excitement can lead to fatigue, below-par performances or injury and illness. It's better to hold back and simmer.  Don’t overreach at this stage in your training. With only a few

capacity."—Dr Owen Anderson, running researcher18. Don't force it"Overly aggressive stretching can actually increase your injury risk."—Tim Noakes, author of Lore of RunningADVANCED TRAINING19. Mind not grind"Any idiot can train himself into the ground

UAN: 167 Article type:-->Most of us can come up with plenty of reasons to avoid speedwork: we might say it hurts; it increases our chances of picking up an injury; it makes us too tired for our other runs… the list is endless. The thing is, they

years with no real problems and have not had colds or flu more than once or twice a year, subtract nothing.If you have been exercising for more than two years without any problems, making progress in competition without injury, add 5.For example, if you