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The Magic Mile
By Sam Murphy on 27/08/2010 10:08:07
How fast are you over a mile? Upping your pace and stamina over the distance will benefit your 5K, 10K and half-marathon times – and give you a kick that will leave the opposition gasping. Here’s how you do it.
. That same year, another Briton, Diane Leather, was the first woman to have ever run a sub-five-minute mile. The 1980s saw a resurgence of British talent, with Sebastian Coe, Steve Ovett and Steve Cram passing the world record between them like a relay baton
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Jess Ennis: The Golden Girl Next Door (Preview)
By Kerry McCarthy on 17/08/2011 11:55:50
Find out how Jenis Ennis competes worldwide in seven events - and still finds time for wedding plans
at the World Indoor Champs in Doha, Qatar, a year later. Last summer also saw her become European champion in Barcelona, bagging a new championship heptathlon record of 6,823 points in the process. She could therefore be forgiven for allowing herself
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RW's Flora London Marathon Mile-by-mile Guide
By Gemma Robinson on 09/04/2007 11:58:00
Running the Flora London Marathon? Plan your race with our Mile-by-mile guide to the world's best 26.2
One Canada Square.Mile 20 Former world-marathon record holder Steve Jones once said of the marathon: "I just run as hard as I can for 20 miles, and then race." However, many of us will simply be happy to live through the last six miles. If you do
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Half A Century Of Advice
By Bruce Tulloh on 30/07/2002 15:14:14
In 1997 RW's then Coaching Editor Bruce Tulloh realised he'd run his first real race 50 years ago. Here, the coaching legend reflects on the essential lessons he's learnt since then
-mile record and got within two seconds of the world record.Remember, no one is unbeatableIn those days, athletes from the Iron Curtain held the upper hand. The Russian number one, Bolotnikov, had broken the world 10,000m record. He was a real iron man tall
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RW Pocket Race Guide - September
By David Mitchell on 28/08/2008 13:17:47
Featuring...Totallywild 10K, Carver Wolverhampton City Marathon, Studland Stampede 12K, Yorkshireman Off-Road Marathon, Anglesey Marathon, Middlesbrough Tees Pride 10K, The Great Gorilla Run
Gorilla Run (September 27) Fancy helping to set a new world record? Run yourself into the record books when you and the 800 other runners at this race set the new record for the largest gathering of people dressed as gorillas (previously set in 2005
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Deus Ex Maniac
By Andy Blackford on 09/09/2003 10:38:36
Undergoing a Trans-formation can be a painful process
will sink forever beneath the timeless sands of Niger.”And so it was with a cruel hangover that I stumbled last Sunday from The Old Slaughterhouse with the World’s Fittest Dog. My legs seemed to operate independently of my torso, like those of Barbie
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Heart-Rate Monitors - For Women
By Runner's World on 13/01/2005 10:34:58
Find out how three ladies heart-rate monitors measure up
When Runner's World readers were asked to list their essential kit last year, heart-rate monitors came out on top. Unfortunately for the female runner, using a heart-rate monitor is usually an uncomfortable experience, requiring 10 minutes before
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Lisbon Half-Marathon
By Andy Dixon on 06/05/2009 10:50:21
Get ready for the run of your life - chase your PB through Portugal's capital along the stunning River Tagus
certainly offers a fast course. So fast, in fact, that it's ineligible for world record attempts as much of the first quarter is downhill, and so the elites' route has a different, flatter beginning. The mass race starts at the southern end of the 25 de
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The Marathon: A Brief History
By Warren Pole on 23/03/2011 15:01:16
The marathon has been transformed into a talismanic calling for runners all over the world. The question is: why?
"Marathon running is booming," says Tom Naylor, one of the co-founders of the Brighton Marathon, which was held for the first time last April. "London sold out in record time last year, Edinburgh had its biggest race ever in 2010 [there were 9,495 finishers], and we
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Secrets of Successful Pacing (Preview)
By Christine Aschwanden and Nicole Falcone on 17/04/2012 10:00:00
We've got all the answers on how to set - and maintain - your pace over your next race distance
to go. He won, clocking a British and European indoor 5000m record of 13:10.60 in the process. Plan aheadAccording to Farah, it was his adherence to a pacing plan that put him in a position to make history: "We had a plan going into the race. We wanted
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