on a soft, smooth surface, remain in control, and run on relatively fresh legs. After a 20- to 30-minute run, for example, stretch, and then do six to eight sets of 20-second strides, with a walk-back recovery. Emphasise a fast pick-up of the legs
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Neck painTen neck massages over 10 weeks. Sound good? People with chronic neck pain reported a 55 per cent improvement after this regimen, according to a study in the Clinical Journal of Pain. They even scored 39 per cent better on the worst
to give up!"Weaknesses: "10ks for some reason. Although I do pick the hilly ones..."About me: "In a year in which I've completed my first half marathons, my first marathon, qualified for World's Toughest Mudder and won my first Parkrun, 2012 has also
career’ – one week before my marathon debut. I was keen to put it through its paces. First up in terms of fit, it is snug, comfortable and despite my narrow wrist, wasn’t too bulky. Most notably for me is its user friendliness, the navigation is very
to your training partner. Two things govern the time it takes you to regain fitness: the length of time you were injured and the level of pre-injury conditioning you had. In other words, if you'd only been training for six weeks before you were injured
is "not much longer", the brain reduces motor output to the muscles and generates those familiar feelings of suffering to reinforce the need to slow down. But when the finish line is within sight, your brain allows you to pick up the pace, knowing
for the next Olympics, the following tips should help to make running a little more comfortable for you.Start slowly. This one’s basic, and it works every time. Ease into your runs and pick up the pace only when you feel warmed up. Johnny Kelley, who completed
the tempo runs and intervals, and press the fast-twitch IIb fibres into action during the shorter, faster repeats. Pick any two sessions each week, and do them all at least once a month. But don't let more than two weeks pass without doing at least one
and triathletes, researchers found that interval training done twice a week for a month improved the racers' time-trial performances by five per cent and boosted their peak power output by three per cent. To start: if race day is several months away, follow Plan A
