Jostling for space as the runners get goingYou’d have to run laps around the Queen’s bedroom to get an event more regal than 25th Windsor Half Marathon. With Lord Seb Coe firing the starting pistol, Windsor Castle rarely out of sight and a route
, runners often sew or Velcro gaiters to their shoes. Sand sticks to anti-chafing lubes and the friction can turn thigh skin into sandpaper. Compression shorts eliminate this.4. Sun ScreeningTemperatures can top 50C. Runners don legionnaire hats and sweat
finished, it has built into one of the best things I will ever experience."—Andy Gillespie, 4:08"The crowd numbers and support are absolutely AWESOME and the whole event gets under your skin. I never tire of playing the video; I smile, I choke back tears
unparalleled power in their thighs. To take the benefits of all three sports, and enjoy the ultimate total-body workout, it's difficult to think of a programme better than triathlon training. The question is, which sport would produce the best triathlete? We
than last year.The plans went well, and Trinity even won her age category at one of our warm-up races, the Halstead Marathon. But in the week preceding the event, taper madness set in and doubts surfaced. We had planned to run at about 10-minute miling
told me it would be. Thanks to the spectator who gave me a can of Fosters at 9 miles. A must do race!" - james 6199100%15 ratings3The Easy Runner Sodbury Slog, South Gloucestershire(11/12/06) "From hills that never end to boggy water up to mid thigh
the steep downhill, just after the Lucozade station please! Thank you! See you all next year?"Click here for one RW staffer's own report of the Windsor Half Marathon. Her thighs are still recovering.The New Forest Half Marathon gave Windsor a run for its
