and the URWFRC for organising us at Mile 17! It was great to meet so many other Runner's World forumites, both trotting past (pausing only for a chat and a handful of jelly babies), and lending voice to the cheering.I spent a joyous race handing out baggies
major study carried out on marathon runners discovered that after 12 weeks of twice-weekly hill sessions, the athletes’ running economy had improved by three per cent. Although the subjects were trained runners, that improvement would still have helped
not surprised about). Many online predictors calculate marathon time as 10K time multiplied by approx. 4.7 (sometimes less). However I suspect that such ratios are based on times for elite runners, and/or runners who were achieving high weekly mileages. I once
on the day. – Little Miss HappyYou can still do it but, it will require discipline. Take a week at a time but commit to it and you should be OK. – Road Runner 2I got round my first half-marathon on the RW 10-week schedule earlier this year. Following
runners have in their diets? supersonic 16 I stopped for my first marathon but now I carry on as normal. I try to restrict it to just one mug on race day though, but that's more to cut down on peeing rather than any other reason. But I'm by no means a
