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Start your weekend here, with a round-up of some of the best athletics, running and fitness-related stories from the past seven days.

The 24th edition of the World Athletics Half Marathon Championships will take place on 29 March in Gdynia, a city of 246,000 residents on Poland’s Baltic coast.

When Jimmy Watkins started running again, he didn’t have much of a plan.

Resistance to the clean slate that is January 1st is futile. It doesn’t matter how much you scoff that the date ticking over on the calendar is meaningless, that resolutions are made to be broken, or that giving up all the treats in life in January is adding insult to an injurious month of abstinence and empty pockets. Somehow, it gets you every time.

Our guide to the best running spots in cities around the world.

I can’t keep up. As I chug across the rolling grasslands of Ethiopia, it takes about 45 seconds before I’m painfully aware of my own absolute, overwhelming and slightly mortifying mediocrity.

Books about running fall into two broad categories – celebration, and aspiration.

Nanjing will be the centre of the athletics universe in March when the World Athletics Indoor Championships come to town, and those who make the trip to this culturally rich and bustling Chinese city won’t be disappointed.