‘Never again!’ That’s the motto of many a marathon virgin after their first 26.2 miler. And it’s usually mine too after I’ve run a marathon in a foreign city. I seldom run the same marathon twice, preferring...

‘The start is going to give you goosebumps,’ predicted Rachel, a running friend of mine, when I told her I was about to run the Barcelona Marathon. As this was my 51st marathon I thought that would...

Now that summer has become a truly distant memory and road racers have hung up their bikes, another breed of cyclist has come out to play.