you expect your race pace to be, always have a warm-up jog – preferably with a couple of strides thrown in – before the gun goes. This ensures you can start at your race pace, and not feel as though you have to work up to it over the race’s first
test is a good way to find out what type you'll need. Put your foot in some water and stride across a paper towel, then match your foot print to the illustration it most closely resembles, and find out what type of foot you have.The High-Arched Foot
, swimming, and weight lifting are great most of the year, as part of low-key training months when your main goals are general fitness and injury prevention, but the heavy training month before a big race needs to be a month of living a little dangerously
wouldn't do a 25-30 mile run every weekend and feel fine the next day. – debboYou can't compare them except in terms of general exercise in a given HR zone for a certain time. You can't say "OK I have done 50 miles of cycling so that gives me 'x' miles
Hard Training Q&AsTRAINING GENERAL• Do I need to take an "easy week" when my average mileage isn’t that high? • Should you try and break through ‘the wall’ in training? • Is it just the cold weather, or am I getting fitter? • How do I overcome
and ran much further than the half-marathon distance. The key when things get busy is to stay calm, let the race open out then work into your pace, pattern and stride. This is vital at the start of the marathon. Despite Sue’s disappointment, she is still
regular runner. The rest will have been great for Vicky's enthusiasm for the challenge ahead, and it just goes to show that running a marathon is as much about taking the trials and tribulations of the preparation in your stride as it is completing the 26
is great for my training partner who would rather be left to just run while I plot the workouts, read the training plans, pass on tips etc. Everyone wins! Patrick Murphy 5 I run because I enjoy striding through the peaceful quiet of a wood at dawn. I
drop a couple of days if it means I toe the line on April 25th.The foot pain meant I had an extended taper going into the Race Your Pace Half-Marathon, where I was aiming for 1:32. Once I got into my stride I was passing people left, right and centre
