competing in this year's race.To help them achieve their targets, triathlon coach Ralph Hydes will be offering them advice and tips on the Runner's World forums. (There's more about Ralph below.)His advice to them will work for you, too - and you're welcome

of running wisdom ready to dispense to the runners who join him in London.With an impressive marathon PB of 2:16.11, Jari's looking forward to representing Finland over the marathon distance in this summer's World Veterans Championships. But for now, he

first bit of practise at shouting 'come on Mum!' at Bala in June 2005, where Jellybabe did her first triathlon."We started running four years ago after my father-in-law died," Jellybabe recalls. "My husband wanted to run the London marathon in his memory

were the motivations behind father-of-two Paul Courtney (aka Paul – G1PDC and our January Member Of The Month) first reaching for his trainers a few years ago. And though Paul confesses he’s not "built like a runner, and certainly doesn’t eat pasta

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

forumees.Andy Summers, 3:42 This London Marathon was one of the most fantastic and memorable achievements of my life. I desperately wanted to run sub-4 and I did it in 3 hours 42 - not world record time by any stretch of the imagination, but everyone's PB

You have to pity race organisers. They go to great pains to have someone ride round their course measuring it with a Jones-Oerth counter, then 200 runners turn up wearing wrist-mounted GPS computers and claim the route is 300 metres too long. Speed

One Treadmill...48 Hours...12 Crazy Runners...495.76 miles...One new world record!If you finished FLM on Sunday, you probably thought it felt as though you’d been running towards the Mall for days. Well, spare a thought for nine nutty forumites

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where you're based but I did the London Duathlon in Richmond Park - lovely venue and a very well organised event. The British Triathlon Federation may be a good place to check listings. I've been warned it's a slippery slope from Duathlon to Triathlon