AW - Athletics Weekly Magazine

AW has been the bible of the sport since the 1940s and is still the No.1 choice for the true running and athletics fan, designed to keep you informed about all the best news, comment, event reports and results from Britain and around the world. In the summer AW offers the very best in-depth coverage of the track and field season focusing not only on the major championships, such as the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Commonwealth Games and World Championships, but also the best in schools and grassroots club athletics. The spring and autumn seasons concentrate on road racing, including the big events such as the Great North Run and Virgin Money London Marathon, while the long winter campaign looks toward the cross country season and the exciting indoor scene. Alongside our unrivalled coverage of all the top events, AW also offers a sharp and detailed news service focusing on elite and up-and-coming athletes and the issues which rage within the sport. We provide all the important fixtures as well as the most comprehensive service of results from around Britain and the rest of the world. AW provides detailed features focusing on the top names in the sport as well as its highly regarded coaching, performance and nutritional advice, product reviews and plenty of debate and opinions via our popular letters column and web forum. Make sure you get AW to keep up-to-date with the sport’s latest.

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AW – Athletics Weekly Magazine

PICTURE THIS BRUSSELS GOES OFF WITH A BANG

THE MONTH IN NUMBERS • An eventful year in the world of athletics came to an appropriately busy conclusion

SOFT OR SENSIBLE? • With the number of cross-country cancellations on the increase, Jason Henderson asks if erring on the side of caution is the right thing to do or an insult to a sport that prides itself on toughing it out?

SLIM PICKINGS • The World Indoor Championships will be the sole global level event to be held on British shores this winter. Ben Bloom looks at the dearth of competitive opportunities for ambitious UK athletes

ON BORROWED TIME • With the 2026 event looking for a host, the future viability of the Commonwealth Games looks less than certain. Katharine Merry assesses the importance of an event which gets mixed reviews

MY GREATEST RACE • European Championships, Zurich, August 13, 2014 Men's 100m final, third place, 10.22

GROUP THERAPY • From the professional super elite to the passionate amateur, training with like-minded people is a surefire way to improve not just your running but your wellbeing, writes Verity Ockenden

SPLENDID ISOLATION • Megan Keith and Innes FitzGerald both stood out at the European Cross Country Championships thanks to their commanding runaway victories, but there was nothing flashy about performances which were built carefully and are part of an impressive learning curve

5 BIG MOMENTS IN BRUSSELS • EUAN CRUMLEY LOOKS AT THE OTHER KEY EURO CROSS EVENTS

RUNNING UP THAT HILL • This month will see the first staging of an event at the UK's spiritual home of cross country which it's hoped will become a major fixture in the athletics calendar. Eamonn Martin tells Euan Crumley about his ambitions for the London International

Reasons to look forward to 2024 • The AW team picks out just a few of the potential highlights of the coming year

2024 Calendar • The key dates to circle in the year ahead

“On a bad day he's always there On a good day no one's close” • Henrik Ingebrigtsen has seen his younger brother Jakob go through an eventful and difficult year on and off the track. He has been taken aback by what his sibling has managed to achieve, though, and tells Euan Crumley why he believes the Olympic 1500m champion will still be the one to beat in 2024

STEP BY STEP • Ciara Mageean talks to Stuart Weir...