on a shorter race distance for this spring and postpone your marathon goal for a year.Do you have people to train with?Your preparations will be easier if you can find a partner, or better still, a small group to go out with. The added motivation

miles and half-marathons in the autumn. After that, you can start training for your second marathon.—Bruce Tulloh, endurance coach and organiser of the Safari Marathon

Everyone should try a training camp a couple of times a year – look what it does for Paula Radcliffe! It can give you a huge leap in fitness and a great boost to your morale. It can be two weeks in the mountains, or a week on some sandy beaches

as it would be foolhardy to make the marathon your first road race. Don’t ever believe you have to do a marathon, you are not any less of a runner for foregoing the pain and pleasure of 26.2 miles.9. How to... Avoid injury for a yearScientific studies have