. Liz Yelling Liz has been competing as a top international athlete for more than 15 years. In 2006, she won the Bronze medal in the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne and she has twice represented Great Britain in the Olympics (Athens 2004 and Beijing
London's Hyde Park, Green Park and St James's Park and past Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament and down The Mall. The 2008 race sold out in six days, while the 15,000 places for this year's event were snapped up in a matter of hours. Most
with the end result - a new PB by three minutes! I'm definitely going to continue taking a crack at sub-3:00 though. Read more Rich Kenington (aka RichK) Finish time: 4:04:54 (Target: sub-3:30) PBs: Half-marathon 1:19, marathon 3:18 Target: 3
finalist in the 10,000m in both the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 and Atlanta Olympics in 1996. He then went on to win the Chicago Marathon in 1996 with a career best of 2:08:51 - a time that, to this day, consolidates his place in the UK Marathon All Time Top
Firth. One of them asked, Shall we walk for a bit?Im not stopping, I replied, and I carried on and won. From that point I thought of myself as a runner, and since then Ive run eight or nine hundred races and covered 100,000 miles in racing
in advance, you can never be too prepared for a race.Neil TillottTHE SHIRT New York City Marathon, 2000I ran my first marathon at London in April 1999, and so for 2000 I decided to tackle two 26.2-milers in a year. (I was 19, so it seemed like a really good
for the pleasure of running. Years running: 27 Hard training and application can take you a long way. On January 28, 1989, I ran 13:27 for 5000m indoors, winning the race by over 150 metres. I’d been running seriously for almost 15 years, but only then did I
top international athlete for more than 15 years. In 2006, she won the Bronze medal in the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne and she has twice represented Great Britain in the Olympics (Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008). In 2007, she also won the British
reaching four sets of 10 minutes by the last few weeks of your plan.1 x race-pace practice run, for example 10-15 minutes easy, 20-30 minutes at race pace, 10-15 minutes easy. This could start as a 30 minute run with 10 minutes in the middle at race pace
, there are plenty of marathons around so I’m thinking about maybe trying again in September. (Updated 27/04/09) Read more Sue (aka Sue C) Finish Time: 3:36:00 Target Time: as close to 3:15 as possible Sue says: I knew from Mile 3 that things weren't going
