and exclusive spring marathon podcasts at our ASICS Target 26.2 hub.Q. I strained my hip (apparently the right adductor) over a month ago and it is very slow in healing. Five weeks on I still can’t run on it. Is there anything specific I can do, other than rest

Like swimming, cycling provides a great cardiovascular workout and burns lots of fat and calories without any impact. However, cycling is far more like running in that it is primarily a lower-body workout. In fact, the quads and calves in particular

Like so many of the other firsts in my life – first school, first kiss, first child – I remember my first “runner’s high” as if it were yesterday. It came on a perfect October afternoon while I was running near a cider mill near my childhood home. A

Swimming is perhaps the perfect athletic complement to running because the two sports are so different. "Just about everything about swimming is exactly the opposite from running in terms of stresses on the body," says Joe Friel, a runner

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faster runner. The key to core training is to train your core like a specialist. Experts have mapped out precisely how the movements of running draw on the strength and stability of the glutes, obliques and abdominal muscles that lie deep beneath the six

important marathon-related health risk facing runners everywhere. The history of exercise-associated hyponatremia is closely tied to Dr Tim Noakes, a South African sports medicine expert and author of The Lore of Running. In the 1970s Noakes was a devoted

experts recommend that you never schedule hard sessions two days in a row. Give yourself at least one day of easy running or rest between hard efforts. If you run fast one day, train slowly the next. If you do a long run one day, plan a short one

’ve enlisted the advice of some top kit experts to give you the definitive answer to your queries in our Q+A guide to keeping your gear running.SHOESQ: How can I tell when it’s time to replace my shoes?A: It’s tough – your favourite pair of shoes might feel

of the UK's leading back experts. It will help you race and train without suffering.Your back comprises 33 small bones, called vertebrae, and has built-in shock absorbers, called discs. The discs sit between the vertebrae and are made of a soft jelly