.nike.comGet The Bird… Golden Emu OilWe can’t offer any scientific evidence to back it up, but testers who’ve rubbed Golden Emu Oil – first made famous by Paula Radcliffe during the build up to the Flora London Marathon – have been impressed with its injury
been virtually unbeatable in British races in recent months and she overhauled her British rivals in the last few miles with a brilliant 2:33:52. That means she will almost certainly be joining Paula Radcliffe and Yelling in Athens. Not far
It's not a marathon and it's not got Paula Radcliffe, but the Great North Run is one humdinger of an event.This road race in Tyne and Wear attracts the kind of attention and numbers that many full marathons can only dream about. On October 1, when
and Iron Mans as Jane Tomlinson – "a formidable athletic legacy" according to Paula Radcliffe – but we can at least now join her in a brand-new event designed to be as welcoming as possible to people of all abilities. Her Leeds 10K 'Run for All' on 24 June
, with Paula Radcliffe away for the second year running, a female winner that few could have predicted in the Chinese athlete Chunxiu Zhou.Men’s race There were two very familiar faces at the front of the men’s race, though. The 2005 Flora London Marathon
of the age spectrum, the GB women's team was led by Mara Yamauchi (now 36) and Liz Yelling (now 34), while ‘old-timers' and world-record holders Paula Radcliffe (now 35) and Haile Gebrselassie (now 36) show no signs of slowing down. Impressive results from
' running technique is a great way to break bad habits, exceptions exist to every rule and your top priority should be comfort. Paula Radcliffe's famous nodding and Haile Gebrselassie's crooked left arm (a habit left over from his childhood, when he ran
-wateringly painful appreciation of what it feels like to want to quit. I am Paula Radcliffe thinking about a sit down by the side of a dusty Athens road. I am Kevin Keegan in his last press conference as England manager. I'm Leo Sayer packing his bags to walk out
black skies, which hurled down seven inches of the kind of soul-battering rain that would cause even Paula Radcliffe to look out of the window and say, "No chance." Thirty per cent of the field took the same view and failed to finish.Despite this
of the course as they feel able to do. There's no need to worry if you're no Paula Radcliffe or Haile Gebrselassie; Jane describes herself as an ‘improver' and she's been running for 15 years. "On the long run, runners at the back of the pack were accompanied
