to feel strange – a powerful incentive to get out there when your body is willing but your mind isn’t. 2. Keep a log A well-kept logbook can be your greatest ally for reaching peak fitness, recording the highs and lows in your running career and being a

(aka just back from a run) Target Time: sub-3:00 Finish time: 3:20:37 Christina says: The marathon is such a tough event, and I was reminded of that on Sunday. It was a real struggle to keep going and to top it off, my world record was beaten

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with each footfall."The improvements can be small, often just a per cent or two. But remember that the marathon world record holder Paul Tergat has won only two marathons, in each case by a second or less. In his world-record breaking marathon run in Berlin

Runner's World talks to Steve Edwards, 48, the man who knows all there is to know about running the legendary 26.2 miles"I ran my first marathon aged 18. It was my first-ever race: Coventry was holding its first marathon, and I had a bet with some

the race so late, he had actually covered the distance in a world record time of 10.4 seconds. The way Abrahams turned the tables in such a dramatic style became lost in Chariots because he didn’t do it in the final. But it prompted a real-life exchange

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-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

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