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Perfect 10: Essential Tri Training Tips
By Ralph Hydes on 09/05/2011 15:39:41
Following out beginners' triathlon training schedule? Follow these training tips to get the best results.
to using them.For the swimIn your training sessions try to swim the distance that you are going to complete. For a sprint distance this is 750m. Don't worry if you can't do it just yet. Make a note of how far you can swim and the time it takes you. The next
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Your First Race
By Beth Moxey Eck on 05/11/2002 16:08:23
How to make your first race a day to remember
There is no running experience to match the feeling of finishing your first race. Few tasks in life are as clear-cut as running a race. There's a start and a finish; you job is to get from one to the other, and you'll be timed during the effort
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Dedication To The Run You Love
By John Bingham on 29/09/2004 16:27:43
Discipline is important, but you'll need more than that if you want to enjoy running for the rest of your life
shoelaces so they stay tight. But every run has the potential to teach you something, to reveal something to you, to be the first time you ever felt a certain way.I see this most clearly in races. Some runners call it race-day magic. It’s the extraordinary
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Beyond the Track: Four Tricks to Run Fast
By Adam Bean on 01/09/2011 11:43:16
Get all the physical benefits of running fast – without ever having to set foot on a track
. Beginners should stick to one set, advanced runners can do up to three (go easy for three minutes between sets).Fine Tune your TrainingMake the following minor adjustments to your speedwork to meet your running and racing goals faster:Goal: Improve speed
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Stacking The Deck
By John Bingham on 12/07/2004 16:37:05
It takes more than a polar storm to stop a Penguin from running
the ship. To prevent bottlenecks, groups of us started at different times and from different starting points. By the end, we’d run more than 400 times around the deck, through snow and wind, as the ship pitched and rolled on the waves.Those of us who took
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Promotion: Tackling triathlon myths…
By on 06/03/2013 16:31:41
section. Make sure that you have some energy at the end so that you can look good as you run across the finish line!Perhaps it was 2012’s Superheros, the Paralympians that gave you the fire to get into sport for the first time rather than the Brownlees
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Born Free
By John Bingham on 27/11/2003 14:53:39
Sometimes we find ourselves trapped by our own desire for security
’ll probably live longer, with fewer anxious moments, than if she was hunting and being hunted.But I know from looking in her eyes that she would gladly sacrifice her safety for the chance to run just once. In that moment, maybe for the first time in her life
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The Bigger Picture
By John Bingham on 27/11/2003 10:37:57
Racing certainties: "For me, the real joy of running and racing is finding out what I'm capable of on any given day."
After university I decided to get back in shape – about once every 10 years, that is. In my early 20s I took up tennis. In my early 30s I played squash. And, of course, in my early 40s I discovered running. I got a lot of exercise playing tennis
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Best of the forum: Beginners
By Runner's World on 25/09/2003 18:46:04
Highlights and frequently asked questions from our Beginners forum
?Food before runningHigh energy drinks and losing weight…I want to have energy, but to lose weight too…Should I eat after a run?What will fill me up? RACING FOR BEGINNERS10K - how to train for one?5K to 10K - the 10K schedules look complex…First race - will I
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Lessons Learnt
By John Bingham and Julie Welch on 04/08/2002 13:08:11
We're so good to you... two well-known (once-)beginners share the secrets they learnt the hard way
d known when they started out. JOHN BINGHAM1. Three steps forward, two steps backI thought that once Id started running regularly, Id become increasingly better all the time. I thought my progress would be linear. For a while, thats exactly what
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