), and the machine picks up the signal and adjusts its speed or elevation to keep you at a particular heart rate – either one that you choose, or one that’s part of a preset programme. It’s an advantage over training outdoors, where heart rate tends to drift during

dietary intakes, may choose a multivitamin or mineral supplement to help safeguard their diet. This is good news if you’ve ever been tempted to incorporate nutritional supplements along with your diet and training.In a 1991 article in the International

all met the previous evening at the event pasta party held at the Signarama store in Paris. Here there were discussions of training regimes, with huge weekly mileages the norm, all intermingled with traditional French hospitality. Glyn, Mickael

stability causing knee pain?Weight training - how to balance quads and hamstrings to protect the kneesHip Area / Upper legHernia - time for surgery?Hip pain - diagnosis discussion - and discussion of advice-giving!Hip pain - feels right on the socketHip pain

for a little while. What a guy!"The Lamb: "When I train for and complete a marathon for myself, then I deserve the credit for my own achievement. But yesterday was all about supporting someone else. I know it sounds strange, but it wasn't a race result

.tallinnmarathon.ee, www.marathon.eeThey train their athletes from a young age in SloveniaSloveniaThere has been a growing tradition of mountain races in Slovenia in recent years, opening up some spectacular countryside to the running tourist. Events range from hilly 10Ks

If you've spent the last three months with filthy trainers in the hall, half-thawed bags of frozen peas in the kitchen and training schedules pinned to the wall of the downstairs loo, the chances are you're a long-suffering supporter of a

. Panic. I don't run...”Helen O'Rourke, 4:38, “...Being an inexperienced, older female runner this did not fill my heart with glee...”Ping Pong Boy, 4:12, “...greatest thing in my training has been the support of the RW forums...”Rich the Gooner, 4

half IM distance, the event was longer than most of the forum contingent had attempted to date.The previous months of frenzied training had not been without its casualties. A week before the race the list of injuries had grown amongst the forumite

We are never going to claim that running a marathon personal best is easy. Even if you've never run a marathon before, there's no guarantee you'll walk away with a new mark. You might have completed every training session; treated each ache as soon