Athletics Weekly

Maybe the people who take PED 's are just not good enough to compete at the top, and feel they have to cheat- perhaps they should try a different career in order to support their family. Lets face it there are lots of us who would love to have made athletics their career , but we realised that we we...

littlecutie Sorry to hear of your problems I actually think it is worse when it is a lot of niggles even though it sounds like your niggles are more than that. My sister had a high number of white blood cells she was sent to hospital for further investigation and nothing was concluded. By that time ...

Hi littlecutie You sound quite resigned and realistic about your injuries, were they major or just frustrating? My sister was a promising 800m runner at under17 and had a mystery virus- she is now 30 and still competes only running 800's when she has to she now prefers to throw which she is ok at (c...

Hi Sam

I have quite a lot of experience coaching junior schools. How did you work out the 100 time? It certainly seems quite fast our club records for 50m under11 boys is 7.8 and 75m is 10.8.


Deb