The Runner's World Personal Best Awards aim to recognise and reward the products and services that have helped make your running so enjoyable and enriching.This year, a carefully-selected expert panel will decide the winners in the following six

If you want to become a better runner, there’s no real training substitute for running. Other sports just don’t cut the mustard when it comes to preparing your body for race day, right?Right. But in terms of boosting your fitness, balancing muscle

in perfectly. But life has a way of playing tricks on all of us - good and bad. Don’t worry about the runs that you miss. When all else is said and done, the best advice is often simply to run with a smile on your face, and to enjoy and appreciate every session

've got the hang of your new piece of kit, step up a gear with this expert advice taking you through all the elements of your running regime. From big-race tactics to those tentative first steps after illness or injury, we've got the know-how that'll make

simple, that’s because they are. But don’t let the simplicity fool you – this advice really does work.How Can I Run Faster?To be blunt, the only way to run faster is to… run faster. You have to condition your body gently to faster running by

exercises etc after a run? Any advice gratefully accepted!" – Breathless in BarrowYour best answersTry doing core exercises before your runFirst off, all power to you for tackling your weight loss issue with such determination and enthusaism. But don't be so

do?A. You need to ask yourself if you’re allowing your body sufficient time to recover. Your body needs rest after hard runs so that it can mend the micro-traumas to your muscles, and restock its glycogen stores. The common advice from most coaches

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Q Following your advice, I did a treadmill test using a heart rate monitor to work out my maximum heart rate. The result was 177bpm. However, during 40-minute steady runs my pulse easily reaches 165bpm, about 94 per cent of max! Am I training too

.Strengths: "Focus, enthusiasm, will-power and the continuing desire to keep improving and succeed. Running gives me a feel good factor that I'm addicted to (imagine a dog with its head stuck out of a car window - that's me running!)" Weaknesses: "Diet; namely real