recovery from injuries and infections, so eat high-quality sources, such as lean meat, soya beans (in the form of soya milk or tofu), fish and low-fat dairy products. Each day, try to have 150-180g of lean meat or two to three servings of soya products

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. Weeks 10 - 11Andy says: This week, I set a new AndyV distance world record – 20 miles in 3.08:18. I even managed one of those ‘negative split’ things I keep hearing about! Overall the run felt good - I basically just ran out into the countryside and went

before returning to gentle 5-10-minute running or cross-training sessions. Make time for plenty of rest and recovery while slowly building your training volume over 6-12 weeks - bearing in mind, of course, the problems that originally led to you

in bed breathing - a 70kg 25-year-old male may have a BMR of roughly 1500-1600 calories a day." Keeping track of the amount of calories you take in is important. "To maintain weight throughout an off-season you have to watch what you eat," says Suffredin

, and so on. Start with four to six reps, and work up to 10 by about two weeks before your goal marathon. Listen to your bodyHow much recovery time should you give yourself between reps in a speed session? Ask three coaches and they'll give you three

London's Hyde Park, Green Park and St James's Park and past Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament and down The Mall. The 2008 race sold out in six days, while the 15,000 places for this year's event were snapped up in a matter of hours.  Most

're not getting enough omega-3s," says Leslie Bonci, one of the authors of Total Fitness for Women."What do we athletes do instead? We go straight for anti-inflammatories like ibuprofen. What we should be doing is aiming for 1,000g to 2,000mg of omega-3 a day

consume twice as much as they think they do.  Ellen Coleman, a dietician and one of the authors of Ultimate Sports Nutrition, lays part of the blame on the food industry, which has supersized almost everything. A 2005 study in the Journal of the American

Q I’ve recently taken up running, after losing 115lbs in 18 months and giving up smoking after 25 years. I’ve been running for about 20 minutes every morning for four months, but my goals are to build this up to 45 minutes, five times per week