Bib swapping is often seen as a crime that doesn’t really hurt anybody. I mean, you’ve paid for the number, it’s up to you what you do with it, right? We’d argue that it’s wrong for several reasons.
With lots of runners training for Spring marathons at the moment, we thought we’d bring you 10 things people don’t tell you about running a marathon. Just so you’re prepared.
Next in our ‘my first marathon’ series is Nigel Gurney, who also ran London as his first, in 2004. And, just like Ant and Dec, he and his running partner had to make sure they were on the right side of each other!
The next runner in our ‘my first marathon’ series should be familiar to you all – she’s a double Olympic gold medalist, she’s set up her own charitable trust, she’s an inspiration to just about everybody and she ran a pretty impressive first marathon! It’s Colonel Dame Kelly Holmes MBE (mil)
In the latest in our series of articles about running your first marathon, Sharon Grinsted remembers her first London Marathon and gives you some great tips!
Ultrarunning seems to have hit the mainstream recently, which is great in many ways, but are too many runners now doing too many ultras, without fully recovering?
