Trevor Bedding. Here's to 2011 - we hope it's a year of running to remember!Picture credit: Jordan Siemens/ Getty Images

I’ve admitted this before in my column. But I suppose if confession is good for the soul, repeating the confession can’t hurt. So here goes: I’m crazy about running shoes. No I really am and I’m not joking.I like to look at them, read about them

Standfirst: 10 first-time running goals – and how to achieve themAuthor: Issue date: aug98Keywords: -- 1. How to... Buy your first running shoeWith more than 150 different specialist running shoes to choose from, finding the right model can

I was an old man when I started running. Not that 43 is all that old, it’s just that I was living an old man’s life in an old man’s body, dreaming an old man’s dreams. I’m much younger than that now.Before I started running, I could count the years

carrying rock from the big pile over to a small pile, about 100 feet down the track. The first shovel didn’t seem so bad, but by the 10th one, every muscle started to hurt. With the foreman yelling, I worked as fast as I could, and was exhausted in no time

occurred for me in the middle of a marathon relay. My mother, my son and I were a team. Being the ‘real’ runner, I completed the first 13.9-mile leg. My son, blessed with youth and enthusiasm, had the 9.3 miles in the middle, and my mother, claiming

- except that you type out your conversations and you never know who's going to chip in next. As well as being an exceptional place to spend a social hour or two, they're where you can tap the collective knowledge of over 140,000 runners, from first

“This just isn’t my day,” I heard her whisper. When I turned to look at her, I couldn’t believe my eyes. She wasn’t in pain. She was simply finished. It was as though someone had drained out all of her energy. And the marathon finish was still 13

times a week.Week 5 Run eight mins, walk two mins. Repeat three times. Do three times a week.Week 6 Run 12 mins, walk one min. Repeat three times. Do three times a week.Week 7 Run 15 mins, walk one min, Run fifteen mins. Do three times a weekWeek 8 Run

do you need to train a week to see improvement? Our panel of five beginners reveal how they took their first tentative steps - and how to pick up the pace.Getting StartedIf you're already quite active you could head out for a slowish run straight away