THE RUN OF LIFE
Here is a list of the contents of the first 100 Still Running (weakly) newsletters, so that you can, if you so wish, go directly to the subjects that interest you:
Rick Hoyt
Night of the 10,000m PBs
Recovery
Mark Cavendish, Geraint Thomas
Alex Yee, Dave Bedford
Increasing the value
Harvey Glance
Faith Kipyegon
Hills
Ben Helfgott
The Hampshire Hoppit
Rest days
Della Pascoe
Mob Match
Evening races
Mark Cavendish, Don Bradman
Zharnel Hughes
Diary, Oscar Wilde
Dave Bedford – 200 miles
Andy Wyeth and Wally Thorpe
Warming up
Venyamin Soldatenko
Diamond League, Kipyegon mile
The right target
2020 High Jump
1,000 races
Resilience
Helsinki 1971
1,000 races update
Rain
Eamonn Coghlan 1983
85-year-old does 500 parkruns
Work the long runs
16th Hursley RR10
KJT
Autumn target
Intervals: Zatopek
Josh Kerr
Interval speeds and structure
Tom Courtney
Dream Mile
Heat
Mo’s retirement
Mo in 2012 5,000
Videos
Steve Prefontaine
AHpr – “I shall use my time”
Do it for you
My autumn 1984
Berlin Marathon
Long runs – two types
Down time, Chelsea buns
George Mills
Plan 2024
David Hemery – 50 press-ups, 50 sit-ups, 800 metres
My Hemerys
Do something – Nelson Mandela
New York 1989
British female marathoners
Running in the dark
Abingdon, Alex Teuten, Rod
In my networking group
Torches
Mike Sully, Tony Simmons
SCCL – the stream
Eking out the endurance
1988, Shaul Ladany
Carla Molinaro – LEJOG, World 50km gold
Toughness
John Nuttall
Ben Pattison
Grete Waitz – tricks
Seb Coe – Xmas Day
Hannah Irwin – race + efforts
Lone female runners
Scottish – Halswelle, Ian Stewart
Muir, McColgan, Wightman, Kerr
Porridge
Kenenisa Bekele – past
Bekele – WR at Valencia
Acceleration sessions
Nick Rose, Craig Virgin
European Cross Country
Paula 2001, Benefits of XC
Christmas – Daley Thompson, Dave Ottley
Josh Kerr – putting on weight
Christmas Day at 52 Carolina
(28/12/2023) Knee history
2023 rehab
2024 goals
Lynn Davies, Igor Ter-Ovanesyan
Olympic year
2024 target
Rod
400 hurdles – Warholm, Moses, Akii-Bua, Hemery
Anchors in your week
ightening the toe-straps
Ngetich 28:46
Winter overdressing
“Wee” George Woods – white shot
Tom Evans – mugging
Long runs
Dan O’Brien, Hasely Crawford, Kelly Holmes
Colin Thorne
Don’t sacrifice the gift
Bill Hartley
Tom Hartley
Inherited traits or hard work
Athletes dying young
Kelvin Kiptum – sub-2
Spring – speed, hills, tempo
Henry Rono
Kerr v Ingebrigtsen
Simplicity, wind sprints
European Cup 1973
Cheats – Chambers, Carter, Lederfien
Recoveries
Ian Stewart
Josh Kerr
Consistency
Paula Radcliffe
GB Olympic marathon selections
Peaking for a spring marathon
Andy Baddeley and MIND
Andy Baddeley and Podium
Achilles tendon injuries
Hughie Neilson
Jasmin Paris
Extraordinary runs
London 1981
World Cross Country, John Treacy
Foster, cutting the intervals
7th April 1976
Tom Evans
Marathon taper
Wally
35:03 – keep the faith
Race day
Durden’s monster
London, Chris Finill
Week after a marathon
Olga Fikotova
Kenenisa Bekele
Pure speed
Roger Bannister
Steve Edwards
Making the most
Ron Hill
Streaking today – Wally
Can you RED and have serious goals?
Allan Rushmer
Phoebe Gill
Not being put off by lateness or pacing
Alain Mimoun
Megan Keith
Keeping the faith
1972 5,000 and 10,000
Hagos Gebrhiwet 12:36
Recovery between summer races
Rome 1974 – Pascoe, Foster, Thompson, Jenkins
Some Rome 2024 winners’ inferior marks
Being competitive
Finishing touches – Foster 20x200
Rome 1974 v 2024 – women success
Just One Thing
Lasse Viren – still time to sharpen
Cheddar and Hangers Marathons – preparation and execution
Books, songs, poems, videos
US Olympic Trials – Lee Evans, Randy Matson, Rod Milburn, Dan O’Brien
2024 US Olympic Trials – Mu
Running in heat – Lombok
Joss Naylor
Cav’s 35th Tour stage win
Keeping the faith – Croydon Schools, UAU
Eric Liddell
Matt Hudson-Smith, Charlie Dobson, Phoebe Gill, Ben Pattison
Track races
1900 Paris Olympics
Diamond League, Path to Paris
Small changes
1968, 1972, 1980…2012
Kimberley Woods, Adam Peaty, Tom Pidcock
Don’t miss sessions
Wottle, Flintoff, Pinsent, Phelps, Spirig
Quad sculls, Alex Yee, Keely Hodgkinson
Derek Turnbull
Giving up – Herb Elliott, Daley Thompson
Giving up – Keely, Josh, Matt, Andy, Max
Carrying on – Steve Peters
Zatopek treble
Hassan treble
Zatopek’s training
Komen’s 3000, Brendan Foster
Ingebrigtsen’s 3000 and his future
Speeding up – short recovery
George Rhoden, Wint, McKenley, Laing
Dream Mile
Target – Charles Wylie
Herb Elliott
BMHAC handicap
Nerves, keeping the faith, trusting the process
Surrey Walking Club
Sandra Brown
Autumn PBs – speed, hills
Geraint Thomas, Jonny Wilkinson, David Beckham, William Sichel
Iwan Thomas’s 76 steps
What could YOU do?
Berlin Marathon – world records, my PB
Snickers to Marathon
Marathon – long runs, taper
Tommy Hampson’s book
Tara Dower “greatest ever”
Tempo runs
Steve Jones
2:09:56
Cross country
parkrun – Bushy, metal disks, laptop
parkrun – Darren Wood
parkrun – a fixed point in your exercise week
Peter Norman
Chris Hoy – cancer
Chris Hoy – training intensity
NYC – Bill Rodgers, Grete Waitz, Fred Lebow
NYC this year – cf. Waitz, Juma Ikangaa
Tricks – Waitz, Steve Davis
Geoff Capes
Phily Bowden – double threshold days
Winter running – Steve Ovett range
Glenn Cunningham, Murray Halberg, Wilma Rudolph – “weakness”
Till – stutter
Recognise what we’ve overcome
Chris Brasher, David Jenkins – simplicity – Derek Turnbull
Wally, Garmins
Complication v Professionalism
1975 World Cross Country – Ian Stewart
2024 European Cross Country on BBC
Winter running – quick tips
Waitarua 22 – Peter Snell / John Walker
Euro XC – Phoebe Anderson / Maddie Deadman
6 x 2mins fast / 2 mins float
Coe/Ovett Christmas Day
Keep fitness going with extra races
Have a target for 2025
Mark Pickard
Highlights of 2024 – Keely Hodgkinson, Alex Yee
Gout Gout – could YOU train harder somewhere else?
My 30-miler: 16, 5km TT, 4, Mile TT, 6
2024 cancer
2025 hopes – share yours
Ralph Mann, John Akii-Bua
Jake Wightman, Rosa Mota, me
Readers’ goals – Paul, Nicole, Gerry
John Tarrant
Paula Radcliffe – Tokyo and Boston
The Hampshire Hoppit
Roger Bannister
Sifan Hassan
Big hairy audacious goals
Don Ritchie long runs
Laura Muir – Steve Cram
Long runs
Steve Ovett – Glen Grant
Bleep test
How do you push yourself?
Long perspectives – Swansea, Tony Simmons
Dying young – Lillian Board, Steve Prefontaine, Ivo van Damme
What do old codgers do?
“No one wants to read my story”
1,000 copies
Future plans
Jerome Drayton
Steve Moneghetti
Mind the gap
Walter George – beer, brine, 100-Up
Double Threshold
Things runners do – Thommo, Dave Bedford, David Hemery, Paavo Nurmi
Parents – Coes, McColgans, Boards, Walkers, Daley Thompson, Centrowitz, Iapichino
Gabz – 1:58
Thomas Staines
Volodymyr Kuts – even he could be tired
Sam Ruthe – 15-year-old, light training
Me – 60 to 50 to 40
Jim Ryun
Sam Ruthe – sub-4 at 15
Mile – races and at end of track session
Gordon Pirie, Chris Brasher, John Disley
In the footsteps of Gordon Pirie
Train hard but balanced
Roger Mills – cup of tea
George Mills – chicken and rice
Dave Mills – they walk among us
John Treacy, Rotten Row
Innes Fitzgerald – environment
Fartlek versus track
First London Marathon
Ever-Presents
Last three days
In praise of large numbers
1,000 marathons; 200 100-milers
What could you do 100 of?