, including a high knee drill with our toes flexed upwards, a sidewards steps drill, running backwards with a leg extension, heel kicks (not a full kick like footballers do, instead finishing slightly lower and still keeping the knee high for the follow
and mastering the different techniques needed across the three disciplines. In addition, essential training aids like your diet, your kit and keeping safe, along with Helen's top tips and secrets (including some from her husband and coach Marc, a 2004 GB
time goal. Most marathon-training schedules require running five or six days per week, with total mileage of 40 to 60 miles. Two of the most successful training wizards think that's too much for many runners. The marathon-training programme developed
, unfailingly articulate and looking more like Britain's Next Top Model contestants than athletes used to hard work and sweat, these six are the next generation of British sporting talent. Their achievements - on and off the track - are thanks in no small part
Running is about self-improvement, not Spartan self-denial. As performance coach Kim Ingleby (energisedperformance.com) says, "You need a balance: training, recovery, food and fun." So while runners might idolise the original marathon runner
to pieces."We would like to be robots who can turn the dial to goal pace and just run, but we're human," says Greg McMillan (mcmillanrunning.com), who has coached elite runners, including several Olympians. "When we encounter a slight hill or turn, it makes
your best pacing plan to pieces."We would like to be robots who can turn the dial to goal pace and just run, but we're human," says Greg McMillan (mcmillanrunning.com), who has coached elite runners, including several Olympians. "When we encounter a
, tempo runs and speedwork – and spend two or three of the remaining days doing cross-training or strength-training workouts.Should you try it? Definitely, if you like to ride. Two studies have directly compared run-only and run/bike training. In both
running – you decide how long and how fast – and is used by both newcomers and Olympic-calibre athletes. For new runners, the flexibility makes fartlek runs an ideal introduction to speedwork.‘Fartleks allow the body to gradually adjust to harder training
the training you have done - now's the time to relax and enjoy the ease down before race day. It's normal to feel like you will lose fitness, but the reality is far different. It takes two weeks of zero activity for you to start losing fitness - the taper
