... For the weekend of July 1-2Oops. A few black marks this week, starting with the London Breakfast 5K for Women, which prompted forumite h_c_b to rant: ‘the T shirt was tiny, bad directions (only to 10k), no warm up or stretching, only markers for the 10K which

was panic. I don't run. I'm 36. I've never run. Once a week doing weights and occasional sparring sessions were the beginning and end of my fitness routine. I'm not overweight, but I'm not super-fit by any stretch of the imagination.But I couldn't back out

... SNAP, the lobsters are back and force me into a Basil Fawlty walk. A quick stretch, a forlorn look into the eyes of a random spectator shouting "Come on Rich", and the harsh reality of a fluffy dog coming up on the rails force me into motion. Rhythm

be walking, as Alison Salmond discovered. “The worst bit was being shoved into a one-lane road in the East End. It was hard to maintain a pace and very hard to bear: I couldn't stretch my legs out. I started to feel very stiff and aching in my hips and knees

a massage every day, had a chiropractor every day. There were a lot of mechanisms in place to fix it, or keep it under control. I don’t have that now. We stretch a lot, but that’s the extent of it. So we just have to do a mix of stuff. Running

a gait analysis done before you buy new ones. Do you do much stretching? I found it really helped, along with physio. – RuzI had shin splints when I started training for the first time - very keen. Hurt like hell and went to the doc; no good. Iced

many friendly faces in that final stretch. Tower Bridge was awesome. The section just before had been rather quiet and rather embarrassingly, when I caught sight of the bridge, I heard myself shout “Tower Bridge, let’s go!”  The man next to me gave me

stretched skin, it may not be as straight forward as just diet advice you need. However, if I was to have an idea of food intake, I could certainly see if there are any dietary things you could do. Q. I have completed six full marathons and really struggle

for as long as you want. What’s more, there are thousands of people around you who know what you’ve just been through and can swap yarns with you about that hill at mile 11, or the quiet stretch of road at the beginning. With the Channel swim, there was none

point I can see ahead of me. When I get to it I decide to run a bit further to another point, and so on. That breaks the run into small sections and I never have a long run stretching out ahead of me. M.ister W Have you tried doing a timed run