after he announced in mid-April that he would run the ING New York City Marathon on November 5: to Indianapolis to drive the pace car at the Indy 500; to New York City to publicize a partnership between Nike (his biggest sponsor) and Apple; to Boston

you drink enough leading up to - and during - the race? What went wrong is sometimes within your control.4. Two weeks later: SET NEW GOALSRemember that Paula Radcliffe dropped out of the 2004 Olympics, but three months later won the New York City

put his back-up plan into action: he took his family to New York for Halloween, which coincided with the New York City Marathon. "It helped knowing that I had something different to aim for and to immerse myself in - and that it involved my new

. According to the Women's Sports Foundation in New York, girls who participate in athletics are:less likely to become involved with drugsless likely to engage in sexual activityless likely to get pregnantmore likely to graduate from high school

Two years ago, Rachel was well on her way to becoming a running widow. She had stood for hours on marathon courses in London, New York, Paris and Dublin, waiting to glimpse her boyfriend Lee Healy (RW member Tea & Toast Man) as he ran past. She'd resigned

America from LA to New York City in aid of the Bryan Gunn Leukaemia Appeal; last year he ran 26 marathons in 26 days on a treadmill for Unicef; on March 18 this year he ran 120 miles in 24 hours from Norwich to London in aid of Sport Relief

, and built up a km a day. My main drawback was, and I didn't find out about this until the race day, my pedometer was wrong, as was my friend's - so what I thought was 10km was only about 8!’ (More from this story) KRG on the challenge that is the New York

me on my long runs. We ran our 20-milers only 30 to 40 seconds slower per mile than our marathon goal pace. These runs weren’t easy, but I made sure I ran easy a few days before and after the runs. That year I finished the New York City Marathon in 2

potatoes. The same study found chaps with a Body Mass Index greater than 28.7 had a 30 per cent higher risk of flopping in bed than those with a more runner-esque BMI of less than 23. Meanwhile, Dr Steven Lamm, an assistant professor at the New York

are behind you, it’s harder to push yourself. "I’m more motivated because a lot of it is still new to me," he says. With three tough track sessions a week built into his winter training schedule, Agyei uses this time of year to focus on building a solid base