the road for a team long run – and then take a progress check and refine all five Paris Marathon contenders’ training plans.Read on and you, too, can take that elite expertise into this crucial stage of your spring marathon training. We reveal expertise
for you, review it every five miles or more often, keep on top of energy levels and enjoy the challenge.On the next page: Move on from negative marathon experiences, control race-day nerves and more.
Your fame doesn’t end on marathon day - come and tell the world how the FLM 2009 was for you! Simply drop us a line with your story and we'll add it to our growing gallery of reader reports below.Here's an idea of the sort of questions you could
Nick Morgan is Lead Sport Scientist at Lucozade Sport.Read the whole forum debateQ. How early should I carbo-load? How much energy can the body actually store? hungryconsumerA. You can eat and store enough carbohydrate to fuel your marathon during
have been looking at hydration and fuel options. The inclusion of Carbo-Gel stations on the Virgin London Marathon course should help when planning her race-day nutrition.Weeks 2 - 3Vicky says: The last two weeks I've been poked and prodded by physios
to Olympic athletes," says Sam Murphy, author of Marathon From Start to Finish (£12.99, A&C Black). “Taking the pressure off helps you peak when it really matters."BREAK IT: Sit down with your yearly race calendar and prioritise your races into 'A's, 'B
the build-up to race-day. Who can you turn to for advice and reassurance? The RW forumites of course. They’ve hundreds of marathons-worth of experience between them, and we’ve picked their brains for these fail-safe tips to ensure your marathon debut goes
1. Abingdon MarathonWhere? Oxfordshire When? OctoberThere’s a reason why the Abingdon Marathon is perennially popular with Britain’s club runners – it’s a veritable checklist for marathon success. Join the crowds heading to Oxfordshire and you
that the old catastrophe model couldn’t account for the peculiar phenomenon known as the "end spurt" – the ability to pull a sprint finish out of the bag at the end of a marathon. If fatigue was always caused by direct physiological events within the muscles
considerably more lactate. When you train at LT pace, your body conditions itself to move lactate around, and this should improve your performances at distances from the mile to the marathon.So what’s your LT training pace? It’s more or less your 5K race pace
