your run«BR»Author: John Bingham«BR»Pics: «BR»Issue date: «BR»Keywords:«BR»Type: --Nearly everything I know about running I’ve learned from other runners. Sure, I’ve picked up some great training tips from books and magazines, but most of the really

step at a time.Every new runner knows the mentality: if running three days a week is good, running six days a week must be twice as good; if running fast one day a week improves your speed, running fast every day must be even better. And when this type

age – solidly middle-aged – are always running in the past tense. The best days are behind them, as are their PBs. Every conversation is a trip down memory lane. They wax nostalgic about 10 or 20 years ago when times were faster, waists thinner

new friends. But, in actual fact, most of the people were already like old friends. The odd part was that some of these ‘old friends’ were people I’d never met before. Yet time after time, as I described the metamorphosis that running had produced

It happens every time I lead a pacing group. There are always a few runners who just can’t stand to run in the pack. This year’s Flora London Marathon was no different. They were there – the lead clique. They were less than a metre ahead of the pack

due to an injury, and she had to decide whether to continue running or to stay with me. She continued, and although she missed qualifying, that event changed us both. Now it was my turn to choose. And for the first time, I understood what she had

I was an old man when I started running. Not that 43 is all that old, it’s just that I was living an old man’s life in an old man’s body, dreaming an old man’s dreams. I’m much younger than that now.Before I started running, I could count the years

bags.Not this time. This column, which started as a journal of my journey, has turned into the aggregate story of all of us who are using running to change our lives. More and more I feel as though I am telling your story, not mine. In fact, many of you

’s OK because it’s the process of running that matters, not the destination. I can learn something from every run, even the difficult ones. What can I learn from this one?” Extract from No Need For Speed by John Bingham (Rodale International Limited, £8

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