growing up unfit and overweight. -->The Right StartWhen should you encourage your child to become active? The earlier the better. A 1989 study showed that if a girl does not participate in sports by the time she is 10 years old, there is only a 10 per cent
Q I seem to have been quite a good runner from the start. In my first race I placed sixth; on the next couple I was pushing between second and third. Five years later I appear to be going backwards. I train very hard but I cant seem to get better. My racing times sometimes don...
When you remember school sports day, do you smile wistfully or shudder in horror?If you're in the shudder camp, I can relate. The annual 100-metre sprint was the only running we did at school, and I came last every single year. Not just last
there will probably be one training night a week for the under-12 or under-13 team, plus a race of some kind. If there is a local club, boys and girls should be encouraged to go along and join in. Two training runs a week, plus a race and the other games activities
less body mass in the form of muscle – around 28 per cent in young children, compared with 35 to 40 per cent or more in the late teens.11-16 This is the age when talented runners begin to emerge. Girls have fully-developed lungs by the age of 14 while
Q Im a 17-year-old middle-distance runner. Last year I started growing really fast and reached 6ft 6in. Now I regularly experience pains in my upper arms, hamstrings and thighs after harder runs. My GP says I should stretch more, while my coach
five and 16, with a bit of a peak between seven and 13. But the differences in activity were staggering; while some ran in play for an hour a day or more and a further hour in other sports, others logged precisely nothing in play and a minimal 15
variety of strength efforts. On some days do 6-10 very short (10-20 secs) and very hard efforts with 6-10 times as much recovery between (eg 6x20 secs with 120 secs rest); on other days do efforts of 2-3 minutes that are hard but sustainable, at the same
was an achievement beyond expectations.Q. Your fastest 100m in five years took place in Delhi [10:15]. Now you are fully recovered from injury, how much more can we expect your times to tumble?A. To be running my fastest time in five years in October is very
victory in the 1993 World Marathon Cup remains a recent highlight of British men’s marathon running, and his 2:08:36 at the 1997 London Marathon was the last time a Brit broke 2:09.But it’s undoubtedly in his role as co-founder of the Great Ethiopian Run
