with your eyes closed," says Robert Burton, a runner and psychiatry professor. Training your brain to help you run better isn't difficult, it just takes a little practice. So to help you, we've come up with 10 mental strategies for solving the most common

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I wanted to run as fast now (aged 47) as I did when I was 30. My previous PB was 2:58 so I chose this as my target time and, adding 1% to the distance for GPS error and mishaps, selected 6:45 as my target pace.I ran it almost perfectly, but at the the end my Garmin said 26.7 mile...

Preparing your mind for a long-distance race is just as important as preparing your body, says Chrissie Wellington. If that's what the three-time Ironman World Champion and world record holder thinks, then that's good enough for the rest of us. So we asked Wellington for her top ...

the rigorous injury-prevention regime and last minute pre-race strategy that secured him the coveted gold medal. What has been your typical training week in the build-up to the World Championships?My typical training week follows the pattern of track, weights

Staying with friends in Ealing meant I had a lie in compared to last year, and I arrived at Ealing Broadway at 7:10am relaxed and comfortable, with time to spare. Multiple problems on the Central Line lead to that spare time evaporating and I was anxious when at 9:10am I arrived ...

Yet too often disaster strikes on race day – we’re hobbled by cramp, gutted by stomach distress or hampered by unforeseen demons. To help you dodge all this, runners have shared their tales of race days gone bad. For the common horror stories, our experts provide invaluable advic...

I'm balancing on one leg. The other one is somewhere in front of me; I can't be sure where. I am attempting to perform a squat and it is not going well.Gordon Crawford is looking at me with pity. As coach to three-time Ironman 70.3 UK champion Fraser Cartmell, Crawford is used to...

Fuelling for an Ironman triathlon is as much an art as a science. Knowing what to eat and when is crucial to peak performance. Many triathletes will tell you that their success comes as much from making the right nutritional decisions before and on race day as it does from comple...