head is a pro!" – MooseYour answers...The big advantage that you have over a complete beginner is "your head"! The hardest part about starting to run is believing that it's possible. You know it is, because you've done it before. Running four times a
athlete has to live with, but how do you deal with knowing that a niggle may appear out of nowhere one day? I'm just interested to know how other runners manage injury in a way that gets them back to running as soon as possible."– Swan SongYour best
(provided I get the OK) from my six-week check up. When I say running I mean jogging and walking initially, taking it very slowly. I managed to run whilst pregnant up to the six-month point and then carried on swimming and using CV equipment for another
the cold big time, so I bought the Lady Gore Mythos jacket and tights last month, after a rave review in RW. They are absolutely fabulous. Cost around £200 for the lot, and worth every penny. I stick them on with a Helly Hanson base layer top underneath
, because baby can go in them from birth. It is a bit more like hard work pushing the baby, but I can still manage 10 miles – and my half marathon time has improved by 10 minutes. – starkyIf you do have to take some time off running to support Mrs Zip
Training for a marathon is tough and time-consuming enough, but at least you're not short of advice on training schedules. But the increasingly popular ultra marathon is quite another matter, as one reader has found. If you've got experience
simply, this is a marathon to bring out the personal best in everyone. "I guess that’s the main thing that comes up on the Abo forum," RW member Biastai told me. "I just have to say, this is the one. Each time I run it, I get a personal best.""The size
a walk break when I made it to "that tree" or "up that hill". I congratulated myself each time I made it to a marker (quietly of course!) and then set a new marker. I managed to run the whole way! – KayVeeToo much risk-avoidance can be tediousI don
on who you are. I think some runners waste their time having rest days. If your upper-body weights days leave you feeling buoyant, cheerful and ready to go the next morning, it probably works perfectly well as rest. Even I can manage a couple of sessions
At the time of writing, your event rating for Sunday's Great North Run gives the world's biggest half marathon an overall score of 77 per cent. Not bad, but a long way off the 96 per cent scored by the same day's Anglesey Marathon, and also dwarfed
