Jimmy Simba attempts to explain why Kenyans are the world’s best runners. “I look for three things in a runner: talent, passion and the will to learn,” says Jimmy. “If a runner doesn’t have self discipline, they will never succeed. You have to be a

I’ve come to Iten, a small village overlooking the Great Rift Valley, to discover why Kenyan runners are so dominant right now. The benefits of training at altitude play their part – we’re at 2,400m, which means that walking upstairs causes the kind

, including the Grandpri Hotel where we meet. We’re here for a marathon master class from one of Kenyan’s best-loved runners and the first man to ever run under 60 minutes for a half-marathon. He set the record in 1993. “You compete with yourself

oldest, fastest and flattest marathons as well as a variety of innovative shorter races.Choose from our pick of the best Dutch races, selected by Runner’s World Netherlands’ Editor Ysbrand Visser, and your training will seem downhill from here. Egmond

York’s five boroughs in one of the world’s greatest city marathons or want to mix it with the best runners in the world at the Great Ethiopian Run, our pick of the top 20 foreign races to do before you die is sure to inspire you to add a few more races

to the country’s top 10 races, chosen by Runner’s World Sweden’s editor Richard Kingstad. The majority of the websites we’ve listed have English translations, but you might want to go ahead and invest in a Swedish dictionary anyway – and until you do, the Swedish

Rome Marathon, March [Getty Images] From the thrill of running on the Formula One track at Monza to the more visceral delights of some of the world’s greatest cities, Italian races boast both ancient and modern pleasures for the visiting runner

atmosphere with supremely scenic running. Think of the ultra distances as the ultimate in value-for-money racing. This top 10, put together by Runner’s World South Africa’s Online Editor Sean Falconer, should provide some inspiration if you decide to go south

and vineyards. The Medoc region's world-famous chateaux – including familiar names like Chateau Lafite Rothschild, Chateau Mouton Rothschild and Chateau Latour – opened their grounds and cellars to offer runners some of the world's most respected wines at 23

20 minutes on the bike before doing 20 minutes of strengthening exercises that target his quads, glutes, shoulders and arms.Coach Richard Mukche explains to us that elite runners often ‘disappear’ for a while before and after races they’re targeting