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The Effect Of Ageing On Endurance 
By Christie Aschwanden on 21/08/2009 09:10:50
Are you too old - or too young - to run your best marathon? To find out, we asked top scientists, coaches and elite athletes about the impact of ageing on endurance. Their answers might pleasantly surprise you
wisdom that marathon performance peaks among runners in their late 20s and early 30s. That conventional wisdom also took a beating when a 38-year-old mother with 10 marathons under her belt, Romania's Constantina Dita, won the women's event.To a casual
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Best Motion Control Shoes
By Rob Spedding on 15/06/2005 17:23:19
Roll-call: if your feet overpronate, give them a helping hand with these updated motion control shoes
of Adiprene+ – works well, and the overlaid upper keeps your foot secure. Having lost a few pounds, it's now a shoe that lighter overpronators – and women runners in particular – should check out.Contact 0161 419 2500; www.adidas.com/ukAsics Gel Foundation
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Disordered Eating: Running on Empty
By Caleb Daniloff on 09/04/2012 09:00:00
Discover how the pressures of performance and self image can take you across the line from smart nutrition to damaging ‘disordered eating’
that three out of four American women between the ages 25 and 45 practise disordered eating. A report in the Journal of American College Health showed more than a quarter of US female college athletes exhibit disordered eating patterns. And in surveys
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RW Interviews: Paula Radcliffe
By on 14/10/2011 12:00:00
Paula Radcliffe reveals how she’ll give it her all in pursuit of the one medal that has eluded her – Olympic gold.
:17 or 2:18 shape. That might be good enough and then I'll just need to stay healthy.How do you feel about the IAAF's ruling changing all women's records set in mixed races to 'world bests'? Do you have any plans to contest this?I'm trying
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Heart Rate Training - The Basics
By Sean Fishpool on 05/06/2002 08:35:27
A short, foolproof guide to training by heart rate
maximum.To know your target heart rate though, you’ll need to know your maximum. If you’re very overweight or a complete beginner, it’s best to use the very approximate formula of 214-(0.8 x age) for men and 209-(0.9 x age) for women to estimate your
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Heart Rate Training: Get To Know Your Monitor
By Joe Dunbar on 05/06/2000 10:58:31
After you've unpacked your heart rate monitor and before you actually start using it, you should spend some time getting to know how it works
, this is central and just below the chest muscles: for women, just below the bra, but as high a possible.The fit The strap can be adjusted for snugness around your chest and should be as tight as possible, without restricting your breathing. This is one parameter
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Heart Rate Training: Find Your Maximum Heart Rate
By Joe Dunbar on 05/06/2000 10:56:31
Developing a training programme involves measuring just how hard your heart can work - but it's not as simple as you might think
its not accurate for everyone. American sports scientists have modified the basic formula to allow for gender: 214-(0.8 x age) for men, and 209-(0.9 x age) for women. However, this still gives a generalised result.If you want to find your true MHR
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Bodyworks: Runner's Knee
By Patrick Milroy on 05/06/2000 15:57:57
How to recognise it, how to overcome it
vastus medialis), knock knees (genu valgum), overpronation, flattened longitudinal arches or a twisted tibia. More women suffer from the problem than men, and it often occurs in people with jobs which involve lots of sitting with knees bent. Your doctor
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21 Today
By John Bingham on 27/11/2003 10:40:24
Running his 21st - and favourite - marathon, the Penguin tells us what it was like pacing the 'Get-You-Rounders' over this year's Flora London Marathon course
, but still ran clearly in front. What made these runners only slightly more noteworthy than the usual lead clique was that they were women.They wouldn’t permit me to run even one pace ahead of them. And believe me, I tried. I attempted to quietly edge past
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RW Pocket Race Guide - June
By Runner's World on 07/06/2004 09:55:40
What's coming up, what's closing soon, what's filling fast
!"Other popular races include:Birmingham Flora Light Challenge for Women 5K, (Birmingham, Sept 5) | Burnham Beeches Half-Marathon, (Bucks, Aug 15) | NSPCC Milton Keynes Half-Marathon, (Bucks, July 25)'The Week's Most Popular' exclude closed and closing soon
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