\nAfter leaving Loughborough University with a degree in English literature, Wendy lived life as an international athlete, racing on the roads in the States and track in Europe. Honours include silver medals at the Olympics and Commonwealth Games, bronze at the European Indoor Championships and a gold at the\u00a0world 10km road championships.<\/p>\n
After ending her running career, Wendy took up a career in publishing which has expanded over 25 years. In 2015,\u00a0she joined The Great Run Company as MD Publishing, a job which includes heading up Athletics Weekly<\/em>. Wendy is still involved in the sport of athletics in the role of British cross-country team management.<\/p>\n twitter.com\/wendyslyrun<\/a><\/p>\n Jason Henderson, Head of Digital<\/strong> In addition to the Olympics, he's covered events such as the New York City Marathon, Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc, Great Ethiopian Run, Himalayan 100-miler, World Athletics Championships and World Cross Country Championships in countries as far afield as the United States, Canada, Russia and Japan, plus the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester and Melbourne \u2013 to name just a few.<\/p>\n A club runner with 1:54 PB for 800m in mid-1990s (faster than Keely; slower than Kratochvilova), in recent years Jason has run marathons to keep fit and once crawled around the Hawaii Ironman. He has written for most UK newspapers, plus magazines such as GQ<\/em>, and is the author of the London 2012 Guide to Athletics Field Events, <\/em>plus\u00a0Collision Course: The Olympic Tragedy of Mary Decker and Zola Budd.<\/em><\/p>\n twitter.com\/Jason_AW<\/a><\/p>\n Euan Crumley, Editorial Director When he isn\u2019t working, Euan can be found running or attempting to impersonate a triathlete and continues to feel particularly chuffed about having managed to run a sub-3hr marathon. His love of running meant the chance to join the AW<\/em> team could not be missed and he currently edits the monthly print magazine.<\/p>\n twitter.com\/euancrumley<\/a><\/p>\n Tim Adams, Multimedia Producer He grew up 20 minutes from the Olympic Park and the first athletics event he watched live out of a sports day was at London 2012. Tim regularly enjoys running 5km and 10km routes in Epping Forest, the location of the first ever English National cross-country course in 1876.<\/p>\n twitter.com\/timadams76<\/a><\/p>\n Mark Shearman, Photographer<\/strong> He shows little sign of slowing down either. Rio 2016 was his 14th Summer Games and in 2013 he was made an MBE for services to sports photography.<\/p>\n twitter.com\/AthleticsImages<\/a><\/p>\n Paul Freary, Products Reviewer<\/strong> As an athlete he has won Northern and Inter-Counties golds at 5000m, UK and world masters half-marathon crowns, plus nine national team titles with Belgrave Harriers, while his claim to fame is once beating Steve Cram in a road mile in Bermuda. Athletics runs in the Freary family, too, as Paul\u2019s father, Mike, held the British 10,000m record in 1969.<\/p>\n twitter.com\/runningshoeguru<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2019\/02\/Wendy-Sly-running-training-Polar-750x442.jpg.webp\")
\nJason began\u00a0writing for AW<\/em> in 1995 and was editor of the weekly magazine from 2001-2020. He has covered six Olympics for the magazine and interviewed everyone from Bannister to Bolt.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2022\/06\/Jason-H-and-Kelly-H-750x442.jpg.webp\")
\n<\/strong>Euan has worked in sports journalism since he was 16. A former sports editor of the Metro newspaper, which he helped launch UK wide in 1999, he has also edited the sports sections of the Scottish Mail on Sunday and Scottish Daily Mail and was at the heart of their coverage of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>A graduate of the University of Sheffield, Tim joined AW<\/em>'s team full time in mid-2020 and has already made his mark by covering a number of events at home and abroad.<\/p>\n
\nAn ever-present at domestic and international events, the Purley-based snapper has taken more than 800 front cover shots for AW<\/em> \u2013 his first being more than half a century ago.<\/p>\n
\nAfter having worked for Puma, Fila, Nike and adidas, in addition to running his own running store for the past eight years, Paul is ideally placed to write authoritative reviews of shoes, gadgets and gear.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/athleticsweekly.com\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2020\/02\/paul-freary-track-spikes-750x442.jpg.webp\")