After yet another year of watching the London Marathon on the TV, you've decided to enter; but how do you know if you're really ready?
Running a marathon: Are you ready for the challenge?

After yet another year of watching the London Marathon on the TV, you've decided to enter; but how do you know if you're really ready?
'Hitting the wall' is a feared term in endurance circles. But it can happen to a lesser extent in weight training as well. It's that point in training where you feel like you can't go on, where taking just one more step or lifting one more rep can seem impossible. Unless you're an elite athlete, it can happen to anyone, including me. So how do you cope?
Why do you weight train? Having spend a good portion of my time writing advice articles on resistance training and fitness programmes, I thought it would be worth looking at how and why I got into weight training. Everyone has a different story, and this is mine. How did you find your passion?