Steve Jones’s 1985 Chicago Marathon time of 2:07:13 remains the UK’s fastest. This autumn the now V55 runner returns to Chicago, to see whether he might break his age category record. An unconventional, unscientific, and raw talent – he might just do it. Here, Adrian Hill, sports journalist and author, recalls the Welshman’s

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We took time out to talk to Mara Yamauchi, 37, who’s overcome plantar fasciitis, and continues to be one of the UK’s top marathon runners…

She talked to Malcolm Bradbrook

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Thanks to Captain Jon Gilbody who emailed us to tell us about, fellow soldier, Major Tom Perkins, a British officer, who had just run a marathon with some of his Afghan partners…

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Running success doesn’t just favour the young. Priscilla Welch, an eighties marathon star, didn’t even start running until her mid-thirties but it wasn’t long before she became one of the greatest ever female marathon runners

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Dan Robinson has been a consistently solid and successful marathon runner, representing the UK in a number of international championships over the last seven years. But he’s never reached the peaks of his predecessors, and this year he’s had some disappointing runs…

Marathon running is an unforgiving sport, and a relentless slog, so how does a top runner keep going and continue to knock out 140 miles per week, when reaping real rewards is rare…

INTERVIEW BY FIONA BUGLER

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Interviews with people who've beaten an energy drain!

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With adult and childhood obesity rates rising, and society getting slovenly, it’s good to know that RF readers ‘keep fit in the family!’

Interviews by Christine Fieldhouse

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At RF we want to start a campaign to get the nation fit…and the work starts at home…Fiona Bugler reports

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