When Grete Waitz stood on the starting line of the 1982 Boston Marathon, she had good reason to be confident. After all, she had already entered and won three New York City Marathons, running each of them faster than the previous one. She
Steve has run more than 60 marathons (26 Londons) and as well as holding a PB of 2:29, he has also won a British marathon title in his age group. This spring, he joins us as one of our ASICS Super Six mentors, working with Peter, Alison and Alex
, the most important factor is comfort. Remember, after the bike you have to run a marathon.Plan Ahead An ad hoc approach to training might work for sprint triathlons but could be your undoing when you're training for an Ironman. "Be ruthlessly efficient
must provide stress to the body in a controlled way – not all-out, all the time. After subjecting the body to the stress of a hard run, you need to let your body recover, for it is during this recovery time that the body rebuilds itself and becomes
Goal: sub-4:30 Mentor: Liz Yelling Sport Scientist: Emma Kingzett Forum nickname: Hashette Age: 46 Running for: 10 years No. of marathons: 2
You might think that running very, very slowly to become much, much faster is right up there with eating more cake to lose weight. For the marathon runner Sue Gardener, though, slowing down has been the secret of her running success. Before she
UK's Jon Brown (78), well inside the 2004 Olympic qualifying standard of 2:15, with 2:13:39The 2004 Flora London marathon lived up to its reputation as the world's greatest road race on a cool and wet April morning. The world's greatest runners
-mile cool-down. If you’re training for a marathon, you could do three to four miles of LT running in the middle of a long run.Real RecoveryRunning Economy training is in some ways the most perplexing of the three training paces. RE training doesn’t improve
speed equal to or faster than your desired mile time. Try 8 x 1 minute fast, with a minute of walking or very slow jogging inbetween as recovery. This should be preceded by a good warm-up and stretching exercises, and should also be followed by a gentle
of water along with it. 9. Learn to drink on the run Lengthy races – 10Ks and longer – often have drinks stations to replace lost fluids, and if you are running a marathon they will help you to scale the dreaded ‘wall’. Drinking on the run is an import
