enthusiasm as well as your feet. Running in the dark is a necessity if you work from dawn till dusk or you’re training for a night-time race such as a New Year’s Eve event. Whether you’re heading out early or late, follow these easy strategies to stay safe

changing terrain means that each foot placement is subtly different, so you don't tend to develop the repetitive injuries experienced on roads."The ascents will make you more powerful and the descents are just as useful: the balance and stride

Drop a dress size. Double your energy. Two weeks to a better body. Or bad breath and gallons of cabbage soup… diets tend to promise one thing and deliver another. With new programmes being introduced all the time, sometimes it's difficult to sort

Marathon. Party On...The race was so much fun that I'm already planning my fancy-dress costume for next year's circus theme. I imagine runners being fired out of cannons, balancing on elephants and falling over each other in big clown feet. I've even

to balance the uncontrollable highs and debilitating lows, but after 20 years he had reached a point when he couldn't cope any longer."I was at breaking point and couldn't self-medicate any more," he explains. "I was an alcoholic and had ballooned to 20 stone