runner under their wing will too."You have to put your expectations on the back burner; it teaches you to be unselfish, to do it for someone else, not yourself," he says. But he warns against badgering a non-runner into going on a training run if they don

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playlist simply detracts from the simplicity of the running experience.It's not just us runners who are getting hot under the collar either: the relationship between music and running is receiving increased attention from sports science experts too

Heaven forbid that you might not always take RW's expert coaching advice as gospel. But there's something reassuring about other runners' first-hand experiences, too, is there not?So... here's a first instalment of some of the most practical