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Be The Best
By Alison Hamlett on 22/06/2004 15:56:45
It's unlikely you'll win every race you enter but you can be a winner every time you race by beating yourself and setting a new PB. Here are nine tips
between a great training programme and a great race is a great taper,” according to two-time Olympic marathoner Pete Pfitzinger. The longer the distance you are targeting, the longer the build up and the longer the taper. In the perfect marathon taper your
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Hard Training Q&As: Marathoning
By Runner's World on 23/06/2004 17:25:10
From the forum: former London Marathon winner Mike Gratton on dedicated training
. I certainly wouldn't need to rest after them, and would do a 20-mile run next day without fail. In the build-up for the 1982 Commonwealth Games I raced a 10K road race Oxford (2nd to Bernie Ford, an Olympic 10km finalist in 1984), won the AAA 10
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Double Your Endurance
By Amby Burfoot on 10/05/2005 16:02:25
Introducing the wonders of the running world - seven simple plans to double your endurance
the ranks of America’s all-time best female distance runners, when she first paid a visit to the US Olympic Committee’s strength and conditioning coach Zach Weatherford nearly two years ago. She asked him if he could devise a programme that would give her
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The Runner's Survival Guide
By Martha Schindler on 16/05/2005 16:11:04
There are many physical challenges on the run. Here's how to keep them to a minimum
public. (One in four of the athletes at the 1998 Winter Olympics and one in six at the 1996 Summer Games had some form of asthma.) EIA is characterised by spasms in the airways in response to physical exertion, often occurring only in specific conditions
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Forum v Ironman Austria
By Candy Ollier on 12/07/2007 14:14:53
The guts and the glory - read how 40 RW members fared at Ironman Austria 2007
Olympic distance triathlons around the UK. So, is it possible to train for an Ironman in less than 9 months? Definitely! Over 45 Pirates have done just that, people of all ages, shapes and sizes. All it takes is patience, dedication, hard
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Kick The Habit
By Matt Barbour on 17/06/2008 08:57:04
Take your running up a gear with these 14 simple fixes to the most common mistakes
slashing precious seconds off their most vital statistics, but becoming an addict to that rush isn’t best for you in the long run. "Expecting consistent progress is terrible for motivation as it’s simply not possible, from beginners to Olympic athletes
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The RW D.I.Y Coaching Team
By Matt Barbour on 01/07/2008 12:43:15
With this advice from the country's top running coaches and health and fitness professionals, you can train yourself to run your best
the pace of your runs is essential to improving, it's key to have the correct variation. "You need to make your recovery runs really easy and your hard runs really hard," explains Chris Frapwell, coach to GB Olympic marathon hopeful Dan Robinson. "Easy runs
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The Great Escape: Beating Stress
By Matt Barbour on 29/10/2008 10:58:04
Stress. Anxiety. Pressure. Tension. Find out how you can use running to leave them behind - literally
thoughts together. But as these other pressures started mounted up, I was running tired all the time simply from trying to do too much. Through guidance from Sarah Rowell (former Olympic marathon runner) I came to understand the concept of quality
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Readers' Top 50 Races 2008: 50-plus votes
By Runner's World on 12/01/2009 16:16:11
You voted for them... here they are. It's your favourite races of 2008 (50-plus votes)
When? May 26Why? A new 10K over part of what is likely to be the London Olympic Marathon course, following an anti-clockwise route around the City of Westminster and the City of London. The weather was appalling this year, but everything about it suggests
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No Pain, All Gain
By Christie Aschwanden on 30/03/2009 14:24:56
Prep your body and mind to handle anything your run can throw at it
an Olympic Marathon, "the words pain and suffering very rarely come up", says Rojas. "What comes up is 'I relaxed', 'I focused', 'I stayed calm'." But why seek that pain at all? "It's an amazing thing for people outside of running to get their heads
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