they wish they’d known before taking their first running steps. The lessons they’ve learned will apply to you too and put your mind at rest.If you're a Runner's World UK magazine subscriber, you can see all 20 here. Otherwise, enjoy these 5 as a preview

, RUNNER’S WORLD – along with a few of our experts – are going to offer our volunteers as much help as they need to prepare for their first-ever London Marathon. We’ll write them training programmes, give them nutrition advice, help them choose the right

half-marathon. The real fun comes on Sunday with the non-elite half-marathon, a 6K junior fun run, and the 15K Stramilano dei. 50,000. As the name suggests, up to 50,000 runners congregate outside the Piazzo Duomo (the city’s massive white marble

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You might think that running very, very slowly to become much, much faster is right up there with eating more cake to lose weight. For the marathon runner Sue Gardener, though, slowing down has been the secret of her running success. Before she

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