, I spent months training in cold, snowy conditions and experimenting with clothes, kit and shoes. I even stopped shaving two months before the trip so I’d have that rugged, polar-explorer look."John Bingham has written over 70 columns for Runner

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for sprinters. Be slow, not sorry.Don’t compare yourself with anyone else Check out the apostrophe in RUNNER’S WORLD. There must be a billion runners out there, so we could certainly call this magazine RUNNERS’ WORLD. But we don’t, and this is because we realise

at himself and puts himself out there in ‘The Penguin Chronicles’, his avidly-read monthly column in RUNNER’S WORLD. Bingham has also written two books (his latest – No Need For Speed: A Beginner’s Guide To The Joy Of Running – will be published in the UK

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