-marathon ideally begins two weeks out from race day, but your last longer run (and in some cases longest) should be, at closest, three weeks before the race.Assuming your preparation has not been interrupted by injury, your body will have adapted to a regular

far more than that.A life-changing race On Friday August 20, 2004, Kelly Holmes walked on to the track in the Olympic stadium in Athens for the first round of the 800m. Outside of the British athletics fraternity, nobody really noticed. Nobody went out

were broadly considered as zero.The magnitude of Coe’s task was immense. Even now, with the benefit of 32 years’ hindsight, a Coe victory in the 1500m looks as unlikely as his defeat in the 800m – a defeat that meant he had raced his great rival Steve