’t made concrete racing plans past Sunday. First I’ll take a break, and holiday to let my body recover and see how I get back into training. The only main thing that I have pencilled in is the World Championships 10,000m in Paris. I want to race more

music-pumping stereo speaker at the 2005 London Marathon, and often finds his way on to television. "It's worth being prepared for an interview," he says. "When I was a tree I joked, ‘I'm bushed, am I on the right root?' The interviewer loved it

started working in the running business. After starting life as a junior reporter, he rose through the ranks to spend 12 years as the editor of Runner's World - a period which saw 12 consecutive increases in circulation and the launch of its award

4:00 TO 5:00 (Page 6) Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15Bourne2run, 4:23:22 What a fantastic day, the sun was out and so were the crowds, in their thousands. All for my first Flora London Marathon: what more could I have asked for

/(kg.mile swimming) 0.62 cals/(kg.mile biking) 1.44 cals/(kg.mile running). It must be true it was on the Internet. – ToucanI have, no doubt incorrectly, been reluctant to claim too many calories for biking and swimming, because I tend not to feel so much pain as I

research and discovered there were a few very good British marathon runners, but none were even close to being in the same league as the Kenyan or Ethiopian runners. In 1985, 105 British men had run under 2:20 for the London Marathon, but only a handful had

can keep with this’ so eased back. My ankle seemed OK, and was maintaining a good pace, going through half way around 1:43.mile 16: right leg started to hurt.mile 18-19: Quad went very tight, stretching was no use.mile 23: stopped at St John’s for quad

granddaughter Keira was born at 1:07 p.m. weighing in at 7 lbs 9 ozs. I ran the next 200 yards to the next bank of portaloos, queued up and then burst into tears when I got inside. I burst into tears again as I crossed the finishing line, and again

4:00 TO 5:00 (Page 11) Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15Tefal Elvis, 4:06 This year's London Marathon was my first 26.2-mile race of any kind, and I was running specifically to raise money for Tommy's, the baby charity.All my

3:00 TO 4:00 (Page 5) Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 --Alan Miller, 3:45:18 My second London - like 2003, run in glorious weather with the most amazing crowds and atmosphere. Thinking about the experience of crossing Tower Bridge still