Hitting your stride is not always easy, but here’s some good news: there’s a hidden saviour in your kit bag – your MP3 player. The most effective training tracks have strong rhythms and a tempo that matches exercise intensity. Our latest playlist
by building more muscle fibres and boosting its aerobic engine. Push yourself to your limits twice or three times a week but ease off between hard sessions. Go back to basicsLike a golfer's swing or a runner's stride, a cyclist's pedal stroke, bike
When you first take up running, what gets you out the door is sheer enjoyment. It's this that motivates you to complete your first race (and fans the desire to target your second and third...) and gives you the immense satisfaction of putting a hard
,’” suggests Dr Robert Udewitz, a clinical psychologist. You may even consider walking briskly for a few minutes before easing into a jog.Play Around With StridesFinish every training run with ‘strides’ – four or five fast repetitions of, say, 100 metres each
-marathon in London in October that will be accompanied by meticulously selected musical acts. "There are some songs that serve as near-universal motivators. It's a proven fact."Maybe. But The Heat Is On? The Blues Brothers featuring Dan Aykroyd? Surely, we can do
by more than three strides, because there's a psychological benefit to staying close. That's why packs form at races - because it's mentally easier to share the workload of hitting a pace." Plus you'll still be in reach to grab their shorts if things go
You know it all too well: that awful moment when overworked lungs and leaden lower limbs combine to create an overbearing desire to S-L-O-W D-O-W-N. When the burden of placing one foot in front of the other grows intensely with every limping stride
so much support, friendship and awe-inspiring guts to the sport, motivating the thousands of runners they meet both at races and on the runnersworld.co.uk forums.The Fundraiser Eric Hardwick Eric Hardwick is not your average charity fundraiser
