would have to endure for the next six days.Thankfully, one of these turned out to be Luke Cunliffe, with whom I had charged around Dartmoor two years earlier in celebration of RW Online Editor Sean Fishpool’s 30th birthday. Unaccountably, he was fat. I
cent in mental tests and ability to deal with the causes of stress. Running actually builds new brain cells in the hippocampus, the region responsible for memory, which deteriorates from the age of 30. "It boosts blood flow – and in turn, oxygen
night.I set off on marathon morning with a good breakfast of porridge in my belly, a bottle of energy drink in my hand and an RW pacing band on my wrist. Although it was my first-ever marathon and I am a relative beginner, I was focussed on a time target
's profile Race day Kim says: If it hadn't have been for the support of the thread, the RW crowds and Hash who ran part of the way with me, I think I would have just sat on the curb crying on Sunday.I'm still
were, frankly, boring. They tested my patience. I couldn’t help thinking that I’d done this amount countless times in training: why did I have to go through it all again? Dover seemed reluctant to recede in to the distance, yet I couldn’t help giving
to me to give just one prize to the absolute slowest. And you'd need to have dope testing - just to make sure they hadn't taken some kind of performance- impeding drug... - XL-ManJoin the thread RACE TIME PREDICTORSI’m interested to hear whether race
from Middle Earth. Did you know? I have white water rafted the Zambezi... • My RW profile Goal: to run her first marathon (sub-4:30) Finish Time: 4:21:39 Meg's Training Schedule
the 'bouncing up and down test'’ in the mirror to work out when they're ready for the bin. Liverbird I do the bouncing up and down test and the 'Can I get my fingers under the strap at the back?' test. I also alternate between two so seem to get more mileage
UPDATE: We had an amazing response to our Inspired To Run competition, launched in the summer by RW along with Reebok and two of our sister magazines.Among the stories you sent us were tales of first-time marathons, extraordinary race day
