Marathon. It's very special, and it is so different to road marathons. It just has something else.What kind of training do you do?S: I write my own training schedules. When I'm not racing, I do quite high mileage – I'm running 85 miles this week, and 90

weeks. I used the Runner's World emergency schedules, which were excellent. But work pressures and a nasty cold cut into this last-minute attempt at training. I had logged just 50 miles through my preparation... From 11 miles my left thigh began to cramp

close to the target, and we reached 20 miles in 2.59.01 - 59 seconds faster than the schedule - or 3 seconds a mile too fast.Trouble was that by then there was only AJH, ICRAM, Blond Dog and me left :(Next thing I knew, a mile later, I was on my own

didn't enter my head. I just told myself that the next lap was my penultimate lap, and then it'd be my last lap.At mile 40 I was four minutes behind schedule; at 41 I was seven minutes behind; that gap remained until mile 45 when I slipped to eight

.We'll be leading six groups:6:52-minute miling (just under a 3:00 marathon)8:00 miling (just under 3:30)9:00 miling (just under 4:00)10:00 miling (just under 4:30)11:00 miling (just under 5:00)'Get You Round' (jogging pace, with a one-minute walk break after every

other, not just during this relay helping out whenever someone's stuck and need to change their schedule, but also at other events.  It's like one big family now, " explains Runnaholic.The close-knit Coasters GB community and the epic distance covered

running for three months, but – like many runners and non-runners – has a sense that London is The Event that somehow seals the deal on your status as "a runner".Other marathons are available...Big David is one of many to point out that there's more

’ll calculate the mile or kilometre splits you'll need to hit along the way. Print it out and pop it on your wrist for race-day; print out another and give it to your supporters so they’ll know when to spot you.The Big Day Bookmark these essential event guides

gone the extra mile, responding to queries straight away and making the forums what they were. I think the time I achieved shows that the schedules and coaching really do work. Without Steve's guidance and the structure and support of the whole

than last year.The plans went well, and Trinity even won her age category at one of our warm-up races, the Halstead Marathon. But in the week preceding the event, taper madness set in and doubts surfaced. We had planned to run at about 10-minute miling