Runner's World is an inspirational and motivational magazine for runners of all ages and abilities. In every issue of Runner’s World we inform, advise, educate, and motivate runners of all ages and abilities. We help every runner achieve their personal health, fitness and performance goals. Runner’s World shows you the best ways to get the maximum amount of benefits from running in the minimum amount of time. Big promise? Definitely. But you don’t have to take our word for it – we’d like to prove it to you!
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Try a little tenderness • Why kindness is king when it comes to long-term health goals
Your predictions, please • Can you estimate your marathon time based on your 10K PB?
Running on empty • Trail runners need to fuel more, finds new study
Runner’s digest • Combining three healthy behaviours can lower IBS risk – and running’s one of them
Run from loneliness • Why fitness and sociability are in lockstep
You run as you think
Maximise your lifespan
Take a ‘top-down’ approach • A new study suggests strong hips and core are the keys to injury-free running
‘I’M IN A GREAT PLACE’ • Yahya Pandor on why he won’t let his sight loss stop him from running marathons and living life to the full
THE GRATEFUL TREAD • Meet the collective on a mission to help us run with gratitude
PARKRUN PROVES GREAT THINGS CAN HAVE SMALL BEGINNINGS
Your World
STEVE MOORE • THE FIRST PERSON TO RUN BETWEEN EVERY LONDON FIRE STATION
THE SPORTSWASHING GAMES: A RACE WITH NO WINNERS
From mountains to markets • DISCOVER THE BEAUTY OF MOROCCO WITH EXODUS ADVENTURE TRAVELS
GO SLOW, LIVE LONG AND PROSPER
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GAMES CHANGERS • With the Games about to begin, we celebrate the rise of the Paralympic movement and hear from five of Team GB’s brightest stars set to light up Paris
LAUREN STEADMAN • TRIATHLON
THOMAS YOUNG • 100M & 200M
THE RISE OF THE PARALYMPICS
KARÉ ADENEGAN • 100M & 800M
ZAK SKINNER • 100M & LONG JUMP
Paralympic dates for your diary
OLIVIA BREEN • 100M & LONG JUMP
MOMENT OF YOUTH • Gifted young runners around the world are rewriting the agegroup record books, but what can be done to ensure child stars go on to even brighter things both in and out of their running shoes?
YOUTH AND CONSEQUENCE • Four of history’s greatest running prodigies
HOW LESS BECAME MORE • Reclaimed, reinvented, resurgent… RW celebrates the remarkable renaissance of the running vest
CLUB CLASS • RW’s senior content writer and Thames Hare & Hounds member Rachel Boswell selects six iconic UK running club vests
THE VEST IS HISTORY • Some of running’s most memorable vests
MODERN CLASSICS • Our favourites to wear with pride right now
SALAD DAYS • Take a leaf out of our book to make light work of your five a day with minimal meal prep
CAN YOUR WATCH REPLACE A COACH? • EXPERIENCED MARATHONER JEFF DENGATE SIGNS HIS TRAINING OVER TO THE WIDGET IN HIS WATCH AS HE BUILDS FOR A 26.2 TO SEE WHETHER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COULD BE THE SMART CHOICE
IMPERFECT 10 • The pros and cons of the 10% rule – and how to make it work better for you
FOLLOW A NEW PATH • Why summer is the perfect time to try trail running
The immunity vitamin • Why runners should make sure they get enough vitamin C
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