into proper training, but on other days you just plod round your circuit feeling awful and wishing it was over. The most likely causes of this problem are overtraining and boredom.Rest is important: if you don’t give your body enough time to recover from

Q Last year I achieved my marathon PB of 2:53, and immediately started wondering what I should do next. I have run several marathons, but rarely more than two in a season. I’d like to do a few shorter runs, but with all the training I’m doing

, the marathon seems nothing. However, you have to respect your body and allow it to get used to the idea gradually. Best of luck!—Bruce Tulloh, who took just 65 days to run across the USA in 1969

Everyone should try a training camp a couple of times a year – look what it does for Paula Radcliffe! It can give you a huge leap in fitness and a great boost to your morale. It can be two weeks in the mountains, or a week on some sandy beaches

Standfirst: 10-mile race brings out all the attributes of the distance runner. Follow our training programme and you could be hitting your target time in eight weeksAuthor: Bruce TullohPics:Issue date: nov98Keywords:uan95-->Because running a good 10

is worth up to four miles of running, and if you make the cycling hard enough the more you’ll benefit from it.—Bruce Tulloh, RW Coaching Editor

, then increase the pace.—Bruce Tulloh, coach

schedule. You may not achieve the three hours, but the extra amount of training should enable you to improve on last year’s time. —Bruce Tulloh, RW Coaching Editor

miles and half-marathons in the autumn. After that, you can start training for your second marathon.—Bruce Tulloh, endurance coach and organiser of the Safari Marathon

For three months, you've been training for that single day. Now it's over. You've completed the marathon and achieved your goal. What now? The most likely response is 'nothing', and it's a perfectly reasonable one. After all, three or four months