Runner's World UK

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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Runner’s World

Editor’s letter

Contributors

01 Head space • How your favourite running location can help to ground you

02 Firm foundations • Lower-body strength can naturally decline after 40 – fight back the decline with these four leg moves

Nutrition

Mind & health

Injury

‘You’re never too old to start’ • How Andrea Simmons went from a non-runner to a world-beater

Run for all • How Monaghan’s Miles is providing a community for runners with epilepsy

Touch down for Britain’s most beautiful 5K

Letter of the month

Brian Rambihar • This month’s member on why he wishes he’d found running sooner

On the move

Michael Hill • 41, Malton, North Yorkshire, set up Preloved Sports

Why I just can’t run on the ‘dreadmill’

Real coaches. Real plans. Real progress. • Whether you’re chasing a marathon PB or taking your first steps as a runner, you’ll find a training plan built for you. Designed by world-class coaches, our plans fit around your schedule, sync seamlessly with your devices and help you hit your distance and time goals. Plus, enjoy Runner’s World magazine delivered every month, packed with expert advice, practical training insight and the inspiration you need to keep improving.

RUNNING FOR THE HILLS • From Botswana’s famed wild wetlands to its rarely visited World Heritage Site hills, Kate Humble runs off the beaten path in the Okavango to Tsodilo Ultra-Trail

ROUND YOUR WAY • Crafting your own made-to-measure adventure and writing your name in the record books is surprisingly accessible for runners of all levels, finds Lily Canter, as she steps into the world of FKTs

The FKT rules • Guidelines to follow when plotting your own routes

AGAINST THE GRAINS • In the toughest moment on the toughest day of the toughest race, Paul Tonkinson battles gravity and the shifting sands of the Sahara on the life-changing adventure that is the Marathon des Sables

TUNNEL VISIONS • What happens to body and mind when you take on an endurance challenge stripped of all the romanticism of adventure? Does the deliberately purposeless ordeal of running back and forth through a drab 370m tunnel for 24 hours lead nowhere in every sense… or can such an anti-adventure take you on a different kind of journey?

STEEP THRILLS • Running through Alpine air above the mountain town of Verbier offers a superb trail weekend of sun-struck ridgelines, glacier-fed pools and mistclad forests

SWEATING THE DETAILS

Coach • Reach your personal best!

Still running true • Why the revolutionary ideas of coach Jack Daniels still shape how we train

Easy does it • Why low-intensity running is one of the simplest – and overlooked – ways to improve

Alternative routes • How walking and low-impact cardio can help masters runners maintain fitness, recover and stay injury-free

Find your trail feet • Build off-road confidence with these smart, simple tips from an expert

The long game • Don’t obsess about perfect daily nutrition – your body is built to balance itself over weeks, not hours

Perfect symmetry • How to identify and fix muscle imbalances for...