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The Laws Of Injury Prevention 
By Amby Burfoot on 08/03/2010 08:32:08
Follow these 10 time-tested principles and you'll spend more time on the roads - and less in rehab
therapist and biomechanist Irene Davis from the University of Delaware's Running Injury Clinic. "Your threshold could be at 10 miles a week, or 100, but once you exceed it, you get injured." Various studies have identified injury thresholds at 11, 25, and 40
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Enduring Questions: Is Chocolate Good For You?
By Amby Burfoot on 14/05/2007 12:17:13
Chocoholics rejoice - there's increasing evidence that a little of the brown stuff does more good than harm
, the Archives of Internal Medicine reported that Dutch men who ate the most chocolate had a 47 per cent lower mortality rate over 15 years than a similar group that consumed little chocolate. In June, the Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology published a
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Enduring Questions: Mile Markers
By Amby Burfoot on 07/08/2006 08:45:42
It's more than 60 years since Roger Bannister broke the four-minute barrier, so how long before runners break 3:30?
on the back of an envelope. In 1886 a British man, Walter George, ran a 4:12.8 mile. The mile record dropped by a little more than 13 seconds in the 68 years leading up to Bannister's 3:59.4. In the 50 years since Bannister, the record has dropped another 16.3
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Marathon Training: Smooth and Easy
By Amby Burfoot on 16/01/2004 09:53:14
10 classic marathon Q&As, from training injury-free to overcoming dreaded boredom
of the participants running a 62-mile race consumed 14,000 millilitres of liquid; another who ran only 26 miles, drank only 280 millilitres. The latter runner, not surprisingly, showed the most loss of vascular fluid, resulting in thickened blood plasma and impaired
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Enduring Questions: Drink Protein On The Run?
By Amby Burfoot on 12/08/2005 10:59:01
We all know protein is great for post-run recovery, but what about while you're exercising?
15 to 20 minutes after your workout. Don’t dilly dally.Having won the post-training skirmish, John Ivy moved into the big war zone. In 2003, he published a performance study that argued for C+P while you exercise. He gave his subjects a three
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Start Running Now: Our Get-Going Guide
By Amby Burfoot on 01/01/2010 15:21:23
Anyone can become a runner - never mind the excuses, the weather or the bag of crisps calling your name. Here, a team of experts shows you how
."NUTRITIONPass on the extra carbsBread, bagels, pasta, potatoes and pancakes - you just can't get enough, right? Wrong, says sports nutritionist Nancy Clark, author of Nancy Clark's Food Guide for New Runners (£12.95, Meyer & Meyer Sport). Running two or three miles
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Enduring Questions: Marathon Drinking - How Much?
By Amby Burfoot on 07/02/2006 16:10:10
You used to worry about not being hydrated enough. But recent studies say that too much could be far worse. What's the truth?
medicine groups, which have generally advised endurance athletes to drink 600ml to 1,200ml per hour. This is more or less where things stood before the NEJM publication last spring. A trio of triggersAfter the NEJM article appeared on 14 April, I waited a
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