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Race-day disasters! (Preview)
By Selene Yeager on 03/04/2013 12:38:12
We runners are planners. We pick races, plot strategies and work hard for weeks, months, years, to hit our goals.
Yet too often disaster strikes on race day – we’re hobbled by cramp, gutted by stomach distress or hampered by unforeseen demons. To help you dodge all this, runners have shared their tales of race days gone bad. For the common horror stories, our
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Race-day disasters!
By Selene Yeager on 03/04/2013 11:55:33
We runners are planners. We pick races, plot strategies and work hard for weeks, months, years, to hit our goals.
Yet too often disaster strikes on race day – we’re hobbled by cramp, gutted by stomach distress or hampered by unforeseen demons. To help you dodge all this, runners have shared their tales of race days gone bad. For the common horror stories, our
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How To... Organise A Race
By Catherine Lee on 17/08/2007 09:38:32
Straight from the race organisers' mouths - everything you need to know about staging a running event
Trail races Name Eric Hardwick MBE, Hastings Lions Club Organises Hastings Half-Marathon (since 1984) Name Mike Gratton, 2:09 Events Organises Tens of races each year, including the Salomon South Downs Marathon, London’s Great Gorilla Run and the Jersey
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Half A Century Of Advice
By Bruce Tulloh on 30/07/2002 15:14:14
In 1997 RW's then Coaching Editor Bruce Tulloh realised he'd run his first real race 50 years ago. Here, the coaching legend reflects on the essential lessons he's learnt since then
hardest. Never give upI never doubted myself, but it was many years until I won another race. I was a slow developer, with not much natural speed. I was good at cross-country, but at the back of the school team, and I never got my colours, which rankled a
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2011: Your Best Running Year Yet
By Sam Murphy on 14/12/2010 09:38:21
Run a race distance on every terrain over the next 12 months for improved fitness and fun
I've ticked most of the 'must-do' boxes in my 20 years of running, from 5Ks to marathons, a multi-day event and even a night run. But I've never raced a mile, attempted cross-country or donned fancy dress. Nor have I run a European city marathon
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Kona 2010 Runners and Riders: The Women
By on 08/10/2010 11:40:57
As Saturday's Ironman World Championships approach, we take a look the elite British women mixing it in the big race
Joanna CarrittAge 34Trains TauntonJoanna was third at this year's Ironman UK in Bolton, in August, and earlier in the year was sixth at Ironman Lanzarote. She turned professional this year and now races as part of Team TBC Sportsaid. She was the 40
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2011: Your Best Running Year Yet (Preview)
By Sam Murphy on 14/12/2010 09:57:05
Run a race distance on every terrain over the next 12 months (Non-subscriber preview)
I've ticked most of the 'must-do' boxes in my 20 years of running, from 5Ks to marathons, a multi-day event and even a night run. But I've never raced a mile, attempted cross-country or donned fancy dress. Nor have I run a European city marathon
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Kona 2010 Runners and Riders: The Men
By on 08/10/2010 12:04:45
We profile the elite British men heading to Saturday's Ironman World Championships
Stephen BaylissAge 31Trains Switzerland2008 was a great year for Stephen Bayliss. He won Ironman UK and Ironman South Africa, and placed 18th at the World Champs. He races for Team TBB, as does his wife, Bella. They were both second in this year
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Ironman Lanzarote 2012 Competition Winner
By on 16/04/2012 15:22:24
Congratulations to Donald Smith of Bangor, County Down, who has won our competition for a race place at this year’s Ironman Lanzarote on May 19.Thanks to our friends at Sports Tours International – and, in his words, “an understanding wife” – Donald
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Can you race yourself fit?
By Runner's World on 05/05/2002 16:47:06
A common question - here's the answer
and seeing your performances tailing off. With that in mind, heres how many races we recommend you do in the three months before tackling a PB:Mile: One 5K, two 800m and four 1500m or mile races. Ideally no more than 10 1500m/mile races in a year.5K: One
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