suddenly feel directionless. It can be a curious time, but follow this advice to ensure you end the season on a high and make the best use of the coming months.Variety showWith your target races behind you, now is the time to mix up your training and racing
and training partner Jack Green are in the midst of two weeks of high-intensity training. They know this session will leave them on the floor, but that’s how Greene likes it. Under veteran coach Malcolm Arnold, Greene trains relentlessly year-round on Bath
of some of the country's finest athletes and a sports scientist, we've come up with a list of the most common training and race-day misdemeanours and the tips you need to tackle or avoid them. These people have experienced them all, so now you don't have
-and-distance monitors (SDMs) aren’t really for measuring races though (the Jones-Oerth counter does a decent job of that – incidentally along the shortest possible route, hence the 300m discrepancies). They’re an invaluable training device though, helping you to make
-marathon schedules Tried and trusted... Our best-ever schedules -- for the half; 12 weeks from sub-1:20 to 2:30 run-walk Essential Q&As -- Nutrition, training, race day and more...The technical know-how -- Pacing tactics and fuelling advice to avoid a blow
physiology, so he views hill training through a technical lens. "We use oscillatory terrain to increase the athlete's adaptation to stress, and to teach a more efficient use of glycogen," he says. "It also gives them a nice reactive power that improves
-mail exchange with Runner's World. The proposal sounded simple. Write a monthly column. Nothing too technical, just the observations of a former couch potato. I’m sure that the rest of the staff were ready to have the editor committed for offering
wife Karen in the final 20 metres, so technically she was last. Yes, it’s true that she hadn’t actually started running yet, that she was wearing three-year-old training shoes, and that she was laughing so hard at the sight of me running that she could
's well worth getting in some hill training - there are some testing slopes along the way. However, as you approach the final mile, the chorus of skylarks and stunning cliff views should stop you feeling the burn. This well-organised coastal caper includes
It's only five months until the World Championships in South Korea, and one athlete raring to be in the starting blocks is Jeanette Kwakye.The World Indoor Championship silver medallist and British 60m record holder is training and racing hard again
