Getty ImagesIf you’ve applied for a place in the Virgin London Marathon, you’ll know by early October whether you’ve been successful. You have ample training time in the period between starting your training schedules in early January and the big

Even experienced marathoners can find race-day a journey into the unknown. Arm yourself to deal with the unexpected, though, and you’ll have a marathon experience to cherish. Here are links to the articles that show you how to ride out whatever

The ‘Get You Round’ schedule A beginner’s programme, mixing some walking with running, over 4-5 days a week.The idea here is to get you fit enough to make it round the course, regardless of speed, so there’ll be very little fast work. You need to build up endurance and the schedu...

If you were in any doubt about the magic and madness of running the Flora London Marathon, these quotes and stories are just the ticket. From the lunatic to the life-affirming, they're all the reason you need for counting down to the arrival of next

--> Read what our FLM finishers have been up to over the last three months in our "Where are they now?" reader updates. Relive the highs and lows of the 2007 Flora London Marathon with this awe-inspiring collection of reader stories. The agony

-->"I'll overtake her when I've finished waving to my fans" (Whippit, 2:54)If you want to relive the 2005 Flora London Marathon, or find out what you missed, this vast collection of reader stories is for you.They make magnificent reading. They come

Everyone knows the original story of the marathon, right? This runner – whatsisname – ran 26 miles back from the Plain of Marathon to Athens, bringing news of the Athenian victory over the Persians, and he died of exhaustion after he gasped out his

A s a 16-stone, heavy-drinking, asthmatic, smoking slob, I decided to throw myself into a gruelling training regime. The goal was to make the cut for the marathon at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing - and make a documentary of my journey. Why

-standing favourites such as the Blackpool Marathon (April 5) or Leicester City Marathon (October 11). Or pit yourself against some of  the UK’s most dramatic scenery in the likes of the Brathay Windermere Marathon (May 17) or Beachy Head Marathon (October 24).With

Ask 10 runners what the best marathon in the world is, and you could get 10 different answers. Marathon memories are, to say the least, vulnerable to our own biases. Smash a PB in the Luton Marathon and (let’s take a leap of the imagination here