Running coach and ASICS PRO Team member, Bud Baldaro is one of the country’s leading middle and long distance running coaches. He has more than 20 years of coaching experience and he has worked with Olympians, World and European Champions. A former

. In the end, I hadn’t practised at all with cleats, so I just decided to just cycle like a normal person and not worry about falling on to my face.Eventually the run started, and even with my legs feeling like jelly and my feet like lumps of half-melted ice

the other’s best distance.Do you still get as much satisfaction racing now as when you first started?I have the same enthusiasm for the sport now as I did 30 years ago. I am like a child on Christmas day every time I compete.What’s the best piece of training

around about the five-mile mark when running. The feeling is awful and I can't carry on. Usually my pre-run meal would be poached eggs on brown toast. I’ve now got a psychological fear and it's ruining my training. Chris HenryA. I recommend you switch

Starting the last lap of the 1500m final in Athens, Kelly Holmes was in eighth. It looked like double glory was out of her grasp, but in moments she turned a career dogged by setbacks into a redemptive sporting fairytale.How does it feel to win

was almost impossible. It took a couple of months until I finally thought, “Right, okay you’ve done it, this is amazing and let’s get on”.Once I started winter training I knuckled down again. Then you’re training scared, because you’re worried you

: buoyancy-helping wetsuits are banned in the 2.4 mile swim in the bay of Kailua-Kona, strong cross winds are common in the 112-mile bike ride across the Hawaiian lava desert, and the marathon leg along the coast is a run in often sweltering temperatures

and expenditure of energy. Carbohydrates and protein each contain four calories per gram and fat contains nine. A Double Whopper with Cheese contains 1,070 calories. But a 60-minute 10K run will burn 850 calories, so hold the mayo on that burger. It’s simple

confidence from these hours of preparatory punishment. “Racing’s the easy bit,” he says. “I never feel as bad after racing as training, because it’s a third of the distance. Some people lose it on the start line, thinking, ‘It’s a long way to go.’ If you

was not ‘Would he win?’, but ‘How fast could he go?’But, in Korea last summer, something strange happened. In the 100m World Championship final in Daegu, Bolt didn’t win. In the biggest race outside of the Olympics, he false-started for the first time in his