the fun part. We can settle back in our trackside seats and rocking chairs and watch the years race by - 10 years, 25, 50. The milers will keep running faster, no-one doubts that. How fast? The maths predicts 3:27. The milers predict 3:39. I don't know
? On a national level, the numbers are mind-boggling. There is no national database of road race results because over the years anyone trying to compile them would have to deal with millions of times from thousands of races. They would include times from
-adaptation principle is deeply rooted in human physiology, and has worked for about a billion runners since Palaeolithic Man started stalking wild animals in East Africa 150,000 years ago. It still works today. Craig Beesley is proof of that.When Beesley began running
muscles, decreasing muscle efficiency, and causing that awful burning sensation. Here’s the key: to improve your racing, you need to do sessions that increase your lactate-transport potential. Over the years, these sessions have been described by almost
the final miles of a marathon, you should be able to run faster.This extract is from The Runner's World Complete Book of Running by RW USA Editor Amby Burfoot.
years, by eating less pasta and rice and more fruit, vegetables, and fibre, and drinking water instead of fruit juice. I'm still heavier than my college weight, but I've narrowed the gap to 3-4kg. The result: my BMI is still above 18.5, my race times
This extract is from The Runner's World Complete Book of Running by RW USA Editor Amby Burfoot. You can now preview it, free, for two weeks without risk or obligation. All running programmes for beginners are the same: they move you from walking
Even though I’ve been reading up on hyponatremia for almost 20 years, I was surprised last April by The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Five days before the Boston Marathon, it published research showing 13 per cent of the 2002 field might
not become great by following a path of timidity and cowardice. And we can only hope that, when pummeled, as the Boston Marathon was today, they will rise again, stronger than ever.****Amby Burfoot is a contributor to the US edition of Runner's World. You can
miles. Or, to put it another way, I get high on one out of every 21,600 sessions. Not very impressive. Fact Or Fantasy?Researchers don’t have a better average than mine either. They’ve been chasing runner’s high for the last 25 years, and, until very
