AW – Athletics Weekly Magazine | AW Oct 2020
DIGEST
8 Picture of the Month – Mondo Duplantis has
the world at his feet
10 News in Brief – the biggest stories from the
past month
12 Toni Minichiello on the continued challenges
facing coaches and athletes
16 How athletes got inventive with their training
ACTION
18 The 10 best performances from across the
summer season
28 Best of British – Daniel Rowden looks back on
his gold medal-winning run, plus we look at
the other highlights from Manchester
STATISTICS
32 Our resident statistician Steve Smythe turns
his attention to 800m running
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
34 World Athletics president Seb Coe and CEO
Jon Ridgeon outline how they have coped
with a crisis and the challenges ahead
38 UK Athletics chief Joanna Coates making her
mark at governing body
MY GREATEST RACE
42 Katharine Merry looks back on an Olympic
final which has passed into legend
RECORD-BREAKING ULTRA RUNNERS
44 Kim Collison explains why so many ultra
athletes have pushed themselves even furtherBIG INTERVIEW
50 Marathon great Paula Radcliffe explains her
hopes and fears for the sport she loves
LONDON MARATHON
56 Getting The 40th Race on the road
60 Mo Farah talks to AW about the next chapter
of his career, getting back on the track and
marathon pacing
64 The Story So Far – We travel year-by-year
through London Marathon’s history
74 The London Marathon By Numbers
PERFORMANCE
76 The latest news and research
78 The art of running – Shane Benzie explains
why we should change the way we think
about movement
82 How They Train – British pole vault
record-holder Harry Coppell
84 Running repairs – Physio Paul Hobrough
outlines how to combat plantar fasciitis
86 Athlete to coach – Dathan Ritzenhein’s move
to On Athletics Club
88 Rise of the Supershoe – running shoe guru
Paul Freary examines the latest footwear
CLOSING STRETCH
94 A Lap With…British 5000m champion Jess Judd
95 Test your knowledge with our marathonthemed
quiz
96 Have Your Say: readers’ letters and opinion
97 What to look
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