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AW Issue 44 - May 2024

Support network

WHEN it comes to ‘over-pronation’, a common question is ‘how much is over?’. With no hard and fast rules, it’s best to choose a shoe that instinctively feels right. Gait analysis can often assist in helping you make this choice and your specialist running store is always a good place to start if in doubt. To help you make that choice, here’s a selection of some of the best ‘support’ shoes around.

4 mins

How To Prime Your Immunity

Taking steps to shore your body’s defences has never been more important. Here’s how to do it, says Peta Bee

6 mins

English Schools Survival At Stake

Covid-19 could lead to ESAA losing thousands this summer

2 mins

Treasure islands

TRAVEL TO THE CAYMAN ISLANDS IN DECEMBER FOR A RACECATION LIKE NO OTHER

4 mins

Tokyo Olympics are postponed

2020 GAMES AND PARALYMPICS ARE NOW SET TO TAKE PLACE NEXT YEAR

3 mins

Fitter food

Peta Bee looks at some of the latest sports nutrition advice – and finds a host of store cupboard essentials can help boost your performance

4 mins

Dream heptathlon

WHO WOULD COME OUT ON TOP IF FIVE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING HEPTATHLETES OF RECENT YEARS COMPETED AGAINST EACH OTHER AT THE PEAK OF THEIR POWERS? MEL WATMAN HAS THE STATISTICS AND TAKES US THROUGH THIS FANTASY CONTEST

3 mins

“When I crossed the ine in Beijing I couldn't contain myself”

IN THE LATEST OF OUR SERIES, 2008 AND 2012 100m CHAMPION SHELLY-ANN FRASER PRYCE RECALLS HER OLYMPIC EXPERIENCES

2 mins

The Young ones

ATTENTION TO DETAIL AND PLACING A REAL FOCUS ON THE FUNDAMENTALS IS THE SECRET TO COACH’S GROWING SUCCESS STORY, AS EUAN CRUMLEY DISCOVERS

4 mins

Moving barriers

UKA’S DOMESTIC ATHLETICS OPERATIONS MANAGER DONNA FRASER ON HOW ADJUSTING FOR NEW STEEPLECHASE RULES IS AN EXAMPLE OF AN EVER-CHANGING SPORT

2 mins

Continental Cup no more

WORLD ATHLETICS SCRAPS AN EVENT WHICH SAW MANY MEMORABLE RACES

1 min

Class of 2020

AROUND 2000 OF THE NATION’S TOP TEENAGE CROSS-COUNTRY RUNNERS DEFIED CORONAVIRUS FEARS TO RACE AT A MUDDY SEFTON PARK

10+ mins

Coronavirus Claims More Athletics Events

COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on the Athletics Calendar of 2020.

2 mins

The man who took down Mo's mark

MARC SCOTT SPEAKS TO JASON HENDERSON ABOUT BREAKING MO FARAH’S EUROPEAN INDOOR 5000m RECORD AND NAILING THE ALL-IMPORTANT OLYMPIC QUALIFYING MARK.

5 mins

Tish battles through tough adversity

OUR SERIES ON LONDON MARATHON HOPES CONTINUES WITH ONE OF THE SUCCESS STORIES FROM LAST YEAR’S RACE, TISH JONES

4 mins

Flashback to 1970

MEL WATMAN, EDITOR OF AW AT THE TIME, LOOKS BACK AT 1970, THE YEAR THIS MAGAZINE CELEBRATED ITS 25th BIRTHDAY

5 mins

Big win for Bekele

ETHIOPIAN STAR WINS AS CHRIS THOMPSON AND LILY PARTRIDGE GAIN NATIONAL TITLES AND JAKE SMITH SETS U23 RECORD

8 mins

Atlanta Poised To Hold US Trials

Tokyo selection up for grabs for American marathoners

1 min

Peaking using strength and conditioning

ATHLETES CAN PERIODISE AND PEAK FOR COMPETITIONS VIA THEIR TRAINING BUT ALSO USING STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING, AS JOHN SHEPHERD EXPLAINS

5 mins

Mitchell and Johnston triumphant

EMMA MITCHELL AND NEIL JOHNSTON HAD EASY INAUGURAL TITLE WINS AT COLERAINE

2 mins

Treading the boards

BRITISH INDOOR 200m CHAMPION HAYLEY MILLS AND OLYMPIC 5000m FINALIST ANDY BUTCHART TELL MATT LONG HOW THEY PREPARE TO RACE INDOORS

4 mins

Midlands mud-fest

GATESHEAD HARRIER CALUM JOHNSON AND DANISH RUNNER ANNA EMILIE MØLLER TAKE SENIOR TITLES ON A CLASSIC COURSE FULL OF MUD AND UNDULATIONS

10+ mins

Wright hoping she's fit for Tokyo battle

OUR SERIES ON VIRGIN MONEY LONDON MARATHON-BOUND ATHLETES CONTINUES

3 mins

National pride

GLASGOW PROVES TO BE A FINE HOST AS BRITISH INDOORS COMES TO SCOTLAND AND ATHLETES SEIZE THEIR TITLE-WINNING CHANCES

10+ mins

Big support from Glasgow

ALTHOUGH the indoor season has closed much earlier than expected due to the necessary postponement of the World Indoors in Nanjing, for British Athletics ‘though it be small, it was mighty’!

2 mins

Running Fitness Helps GB Runner's Cancer Battle

Nick Jones defies medical verdict as he returns to sub-20 5km shape

3 mins

“I kind of got a free swing at the Olympics when I was 19 years old”

OUR SERIES CONTINUES WITH THE 1984 OLYMPIC 1500m SILVER MEDALLIST SHARING HIS EARLY OLYMPIC MEMORIES AND INSIGHT INTO WHY THE EXPERIENCE WAS SUCH AN IMPORTANT ONE

1 min

Weynay targets the Tokyo Olympics

FIRST IN A SERIES OF PROFILE PIECES ON LONDON MARATHON CONTENDERS

2 mins

UKA undergoes Street survey

DÉJÀ VU AS UK SPORT BEGIN SECOND MAJOR REVIEW IN 20 YEARS

1 min

Jumps help putters

SPECIFIC EXERCISES BEFORE THROWING CAN BOOST A COMPETITIVE SHOT PUT PERFORMANCE, WRITES JOHN SHEPHERD

2 mins

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