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Real-Life Successes: Time-Efficient Training
By Marguerite Lazell on 17/02/2006 11:52:24
What can you do when family life and work mean you can no longer keep running as your number-one priority? Pete Kennedy found the answer
' mileage, his rate of return is impressive: he has recorded a 1:22 half-marathon and a 37:07 10K so far this year."I do fairly well on little training," Pete admits. "But the old cliché that you get out what you put in is certainly true." With a background
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Life After Birth
By Runner's World on 26/05/2004 15:11:51
Child benefit... three real-life stories of how giving birth can improve your running
after pregnancy seem to suggest that they can.Vicki SmithAge: 38 Children: One (Joe, 13 months)PBs before children: 5 miles – 34:59; 10K – 43:49; half-marathon – 1:40:50PBs after children: 5 miles – 34:46; 10K – 43:00; half-marathon – 1:40:12“I had
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Real-Life Successes: Me? Speedwork???
By Stickless on 07/12/2005 10:03:37
Not so long ago, RW forum member Stickless thought that speedwork was something that happened to other runners. With help from her friends, she's now made it a permanent feature of her training
of that. She explained it to me: we were going to do five intervals, with three-minute recoveries. The aim was to run it exactly the same all five times.5-4-3-2-1 go! This isn't hard. I can do this. Well, maybe it's not so easy. Well, maybe I shouldn
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Win Shoes For Life At The Chris Brasher 10K
By Runner's World on 25/05/2004 14:25:44
Run Richmond Park AND win shoes for life at the Chris Brasher Memorial 10K on June 20
Petersham Meadows, next to Richmond ParkWe're delighted to put our support behind the Chris Brasher Memorial 10K in London's Richmond Park on June 20. It should be a smashing day out in a glorious venue, all in memory of the single most influential
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Your 2006 Race For Life Training Guide
By Runner's World on 12/01/2006 11:25:22
Entries for the 2006 Race for Life women-only 5K series are open! We're here to help you every step of the way...
This year, an amazing 750,000 women will be walking, jogging or running in a women-only Race for Life 5K. They'll help to raise a whopping £46 million for Cancer Research UK across 240 events. Will you be one of them?We're here to help you every
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Real-Life Successes: How I Helped My Partner Run
By Runner's World on 07/11/2005 10:12:04
Lee Healy was nervous of asking his girlfriend to try running with him. It was one of the best experiences of his running career
herself to being abandoned every Sunday morning as he set off for his weekly long run.Seeing Lee complete eight marathons was not enough to persuade Rachel to take up running, but she did decide that she wanted to get fit."About 18 months ago, Rachel
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Real-Life Successes: How I Finally Broke 4 Hours
By Marguerite Lazell on 17/02/2006 12:25:26
How a schedule finally helped RW member Acer smash the four-hour marathon barrier
and running and then stopping when I'd had enough."This somewhat haphazard approach also brought him a 4:04 finish in 2003. "Everyone in my office was saying ‘well done,' but I was really annoyed," he recalls. When he started training for the 2005 event, he
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Coming To Life
By Andy Blackford on 04/09/2003 16:02:35
Marathon preparation with a twist: quit your job, catch a cold and drop your running buddy into a pit of despair
Life, I have concluded, is more like a fartlek session than a marathon. It jogs along for years at a steady pace then it passes the second lamppost after the church and vroom! its head goes down and suddenly its thundering along at a five
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The Fats Of Life
By on 05/06/2002 20:20:44
Good fat, bad fat... here are the simple basics you need to know
, biscuits and desserts provide 19 per cent of our fat intake, along with dairy foods (15 per cent), soups and sauces (3 per cent), chocolate and fudge (3 per cent), oily fruits like olives (1 per cent), meat products (24 per cent), spreads such as butter
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Real-Life Successes: How I Lost 4.5st
By Runner's World on 23/09/2005 22:57:34
34-year-old Andy Corrie shed 8in from his waist to get the job of his dreams - and ran a marathon in the process
of crisps and a huge plate of dinner. By swapping to unrefined carbohydrates, protein and plenty of fruit and vegetables, Andy went from 16.5 stone to 14.5 stone in four months.“I was looking and feeling better,” he recalls. “And while I was enjoying my
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