record. That's roughly the equivalent of someone taking four minutes off the marathon world record. Wyatt, also originally from Wellington, has won four World Mountain Running Championships in recent years, and deserves to be called the greatest hill

to describe a certain training pace. "Lactate threshold" (LT) pace has been the preferred term in Runner’s World for the last handful of years. Loosely speaking, LT pace requires a hard but manageable effort, and forces your body to begin producing

to slow down to grab your drinks. America’s Steve Spence worked on this dilemma when he was training for the hot, humid World Championships Marathon in Tokyo in 1991. Spence set up a water table on his local track, and then practised drinking while running

with RUNNER’S WORLD USA Race And Event Promotions Manager Bart Yasso, and first wrote about it nearly a decade ago. Since then, literally thousands of runners have told us, at pacing runs or in e-mails, that the programme has worked for them. With the Yasso