VOICES OF EXPERIENCE

As you read this, we’re about to choose the women who’ll train with us for the 2017 Big Marathon Challenge, so we asked some of our previous runners for their advice

BIG MARATHON CHALLENGE

In the last issue of Women’s Running, we launched our annual search for a team of four women willing to share their experiences of marathon training, in exchange for a bit of kit, nutrition products, coaching expertise – and the support of the team here and all our lovely readers!

As you read this, we’re going through the hundreds of entries we’ve received and choosing our final team, who will be informed that they’ve won in early December. You’ll be able to meet them next month.

In the mean time, there’s plenty that prospective Big Marathon Challengers can be thinking about to make their races next year a success. This is a difficult time of year for anybody training for a spring marathon. You’re slightly in limbo as you wait for your training plan to kick in ‘properly’ in January or February. So we’ve turned to the experts: we went back to some of the brilliant women who’ve trained on our Big Marathon Challenge and Project 26.2 teams over the last two years to ask them what this year’s spring marathon hopefuls should be doing right now, whether they make it onto our team or are simply training for a marathon next year on their own.