distance race he ever entered as a teenager. He obviously had legs, guts, and stamina from the go.He also won a more recent running race. This time it was a run-bike-run affair called the Dirty Duathlon in Rocky Hill, Texas, back in December 2002

, plus 20 to 40 seconds per mile, or your 10K race pace, plus 10 to 20 seconds. (Both formulas should result in about the same pace.) Most top coaches believe you should regularly do 20- to 40-minute runs at your LT pace; these sessions are commonly

ourselves up to the top of north London's Primrose Hill once a week is hard work, and it draws bewildered looks from the fashionable set who parade in the park on summer's days, but we have little doubt that these sessions make us faster.We are not alone

as "short, fat, and bald," is one of the top experts in the BMI, exercise, and health field. He and his former colleagues at the Cooper Aerobics Center in Dallas, Texas, have collected the world's most impeccable fitness data; they've actually tested

? On a national level, the numbers are mind-boggling. There is no national database of road race results because over the years anyone trying to compile them would have to deal with millions of times from thousands of races. They would include times from

by the number of runs you are doing per week (that is, if you’re doing four runs, you can increase by four miles). Follow a progressive training programme that gradually builds to a racing peak Daniels’s ideal training plan lasts 24 weeks or longer, and moves

again, about the Boston course – but once there she found it easy going. At the top of Heartbreak, she had only five to go, and realised they were mostly downhill. Piece of cake. "I didn't know anything about downhill running," she says now. "I was so

.Perhaps no runner has thought more about heat training and racing than Alberto Salazar. Before the 1984 Olympic Marathon he got tested in a heat chamber (where sweat production is measured) and learned to chug two litres of fluid before every workout. But then he

per cent or three per cent increase might be more appropriate.In addition to following a hard day/easy day approach, or more likely a hard/easy/easy pattern, many top runners use a system where they scale back their weekly mileage by 20 to 40 per cent