Are you planning a spring marathon? If so, you should now be coming to the end of your 'base phase' of training and have built up plenty of endurance and strength so that you are ready for your marathon programme.
The IAAF is saddened by the news that Miruts Yifter, a double Olympic champion for Ethiopia at the 1980 Olympic Games, died yesterday (22) in Toronto, Canada, after being hospitalised for respiratory ailments. Yifter, considered by many as one of the greatest middle distance runners of
1. Kawauchi Breaks World Record for Half Marathon in a Suit by 18 Minutes - Mar. 13 A week after running 2:11:53 at the Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon, Yuki Kawauchi (Saitama Pref. Gov't) ran his hometown Kuki Half Marathon dressed in his work clothes, a full
A famous quote attributed to the late Ron Clarke reads "The hardest step for a runner to take, is the first one out the door". Just recently, we celebrated the 60 year anniversary of the Melbourne Olympic Games, where an 18-year-old Clarke stood aloft at the MCG
Tokai University's Shonan campus features a "low pressure chamber." With 20 cm-thick walls it is like a room on a submarine. In preparation for the Hakone Ekiden, twice a week the school's athletes work out in the chamber on running machines and other equipment. A...
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