Some running kit can look intimidating, and snazzy racing shoes are a prime example. But there’s no mystery here: they’re simply a stripped-down shoe designed to make you go faster on race day. No matter what your size, shape or level of experience
-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
Race places are getting snapped up quickly for the Bupa Great South Run, so make sure you reserve your spot. A staggering 25,000 runners will take on this event on October 28 – and there are only 3,500 places left. We took part in the race a few
fears, borrow a bike and make his triathlon debut. He didn’t listen to all our advice – we’d definitely recommend starting bike training more than a week before the race, for example – but he somehow overcame his lack of training and dismal
Next Saturday 13 October all eyes will be on Kona, Hawaii for the headline event in the triathlon endurance racing calendar: the Ironman World Championship.The raceHeld since 1978, the annual Ironman World Championship or ‘Ironman Hawaii
outside the gym – how much and how often? As I said, it’s complicated.Strength is defined as power over time, a core component of racing at all distances. It is needed not only to hammer a 40K bike, but also to power through choppy water and prevent
the race – and only if you provided a self-addressed envelope. The profile of triathlon has also grown enormously; most people know about triathlon now and watch it on television. In 1983 very few people knew what a triathlon involved.What has been
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
-distance men are lagging behind the women, his London 2012 favourites and to find out about his relationship with Coe and Ovett, on and off the track. Football was my real love as a child. All I wanted to be was a footballer.Once I started winning races for my
