the weather and made camp on stretches of inconspicuous wasteland beside the roads or tracks. There were occasional visits from friends and family and the odd night in a house or hotel, but it was largely a hard, solitary adventure. But what an adventure

switch, and eight seconds later… breakfast, or 11 if you count pouring. (I did this one, too. Assembling from scratch in the morning: 1:53. Time saved: 1:42.)21 Don't spend time stretching cold muscles before you train. Instead, walk briskly for a few

was not a successful or willing runner," he says, "I was the youngest in my age group and I was continually beaten and lost all motivation, stopped running and took up smoking instead."Like many reluctant PE-class attendees, Agyei rediscovered sport later

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