AW – Athletics Weekly Magazine | Jan 16 2020
DIGEST
6 Elite fields for Virgin Money London Marathon
7 Great North Run to celebrate 40th event
8 Lamine Diack will face justice
9 Wilson Kipsang’s reputation in tatters after anti-doping suspension
10 North Yorkshire school raises money for world schools event
ACTION
14 RUN STIRLING
Kate Avery and Kris Jones win senior races on a quagmire course in Scotland at the British Athletics Cross Challenge, Celtic International, home nations match and inter-district event
PERFORMANCE
39 Warm-ups – sprint hurdles in the spotlight
40 Strength training for distance running – part 1 of a two-parter by David Lowes
42 Matt Long speaks to Isabelle Boffey and Guy Learmonth about ‘benchmarking’
44 Paul Freary looks at the latest models of running shoes
coming out this year
STATISTICS
32 2019 MASTERS ROAD RANKINGS
Leading marks from last year for veteran athletes from
5km to marathonSPOTLIGHT
22 AW IS 75
Our celebration of the magazine’s silver anniversary
continues with Mel Watman looking at the moment when
the magazine went weekly in 1950
26 CLARE ELMS
The W55 endurance runner won four world indoor titles, six
European gold medals and broke more than 20 world or
British masters records in 2019 and here she explains the
background to her incredible successes
30 STAN GREENBERG
In the final part of his series, the former BBC statistician, who
is a veteran of more than 60 national championships, looks
at his favourite multi-events moments
REGULARS
12 UKA VIEW
Donna Fraser on how she hopes the Run Stirling event will act as a great start to a memorable 2020 season
36 YOUNG ATHLETE
World schools 400m winner Alice Brown is also a talent over 800m and in the discus, as Steve Roe finds out
62 DIP FINISH
Olympic speech from the 1890s sells for record fee of $8.8m in auction in New York
RESULTS & FIXTURES
46 Results: news from a world 10km record in Valencia, cross country in Elgoibar and the North of England Indoor Champs
59 What's On fixtures guide
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in AW – Athletics Weekly Magazine Jan 16 2020.