as they could have, but it's only a shade of disappointment. I'm really proud of what I achieved both in training and on the day, I Ioved the race and it was great competing alongside Alice and James.Perhaps I'm being overly optimistic, but I I know I can do

training camp in South Africa later that summer, designed to help eight young female runners on their journey to senior sport.Fast-forward almost eight years and now 59 young athletes are OCWK members - 45 female and 14 male. They attend a range

long career in athletics?I think looking after my body. As you get older you need to work hard, but not as hard as you used to. After years of training, much of it is embedded and you just need to keep in touch with it, so I use that to my advantage. I

Sprinting is an art form I'd never mastered. Back in my school days, sports day was voluntary - so guess who spent the day guzzling chocolate on the sidelines. So when I found myself lining up alongside Paralympic sprinter Richard Whitehead I wished I'd paid slightly more attenti...

it to nature's cruel elements, I knew I had to take it outside. We're ideally placed at TW Towers to train on the race route itself. With Hyde Park less than a mile away, I've got no excuse not to be ripping up the Royal Park's paths in my lunch hour

team Rabobank and Rebecca Romero, 2008 Individual Pursuit Olympic gold medallist, have both been using the powerBIKE™ in training. Rebecca uses the powerBIKE™ two or three times a week as a warm-up tool and hops on to help promote muscle recovery

. Not wearing the right kit, training sufficiently or swotting up on road rules were classic rookie errors. But this time it would be different, this time I would be an informed and enthusiastic cyclist - and I'd be gunning for a PB.Training has started well

to notch up an amazing 5K and Alice's dedicated training should put her in good stead for a great swim too.And me? Well, a minor miracle has happened in the last few months; I have learned to love cycling. I even find myself getting frustrated now whenever

When an email pinged into my inbox from Gatorade, inviting me to train with elite GB cyclists at the Manchester Velodrome and do a (gross-sounding) 'sweat test', it took seconds for me to say yes.And so last Monday evening I left London for a much

some most of our faster forumites blush. Still if enthusiasm counts for anything, then I'm a runner.However, as much I love running, it appears that running doesn't love me. Since upping my mileage to train and race in the Liverpool Half