one. Some runners are afraid ever to slow down and allow their bodies to recover from a hard session, long run or race. They push the pace on every run. Many coaches list this as the most common training mistake they see. Why? Because runners assume

runnersAs can be expected from a company that deals with roughly 60,000 guests per day, the race organisation is first-rate and on a par with the FLM. Registration packs are sent out well in advance to international runners and once at the race each

’were ’is next door neighbours, like. To make things worse, he were sick on their cat.”“Aye. He ran a crackin’ race next day though. Knocked three seconds of t’ Commonwealth 10,000m record, as I recall.”“Four, actually.”“Ah,” says the angel on my left

when preparing for the Marathon des Sables – my first-ever endurance race.“The French organisers being French, of course, stubbornly refused to translate any of their notes into English. “And my French being what it was, I had to translate

that produce big results, because it doesn't take much to make the first fitness gains," says Paton who works at the University of Waikato, in Hamilton, New Zealand. Paton is a former international cyclist who gave up his dream of the pro tour when he realised

Kerry McCarthy is senior writer for Runner's World magazine. He has run 10 marathons, raced Usain Bolt and trained with Paula Radcliffe - but he hasn't been able to touch his toes since he was a child.Hello and welcome to our new Yoga for Runners

urine pre-run is an easy way to see if you’re hydrated,’ says Dr Lewis Maharam, former medical director  of the Rock ’n’ Roll race series. ‘If it’s the colour of iced tea, you need to drink more. If it’s a pale lemonade or straw colour, you’re nicely

internal dialogue - strong, powerful and positive commands work better, like "Keep on going." Similarly, don't start a race with negative thoughts. If you do, you're pre-programming your unconscious mind and setting yourself up for a fall. Change your

… and having adjusted them in the light of the mysterious ‘could/couldn’t give a monkey’s’ factor, sets the internal metronome governing my rate of energy-deployment so that, whatever the race, I run it at a pace just short of the impossible.I’d like to think

&E doctors who had been encountering a condition never seen before at road races: overhydration. The runners actually seemed to have consumed too much fluid. In 1985 Noakes published the seminal paper in the field, Water Intoxication: A Possible Complication