When it’s time to pick your marathon training plan, your options probably share one key similarity: It’s packed with running. Lots and lots of running. Often, five or six days of it, not leaving a ...

Before the 20-mile long runs, tempo miles, or sprint interval workouts of marathon prep, there’s base training—a quiet development period used to stack easy miles, reinforce strength training habits, ...

When I started running in high school, I wasn’t just running: strength sessions consistently followed my after-school cross-country practices. Not only was I taught to hit my paces in interval ...

When I started running in high school, I wasn’t just running: Strength sessions consistently followed my after-school cross-country practices. Not only was I taught to hit my paces in interval ...

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It was a gloomy March morning when I closed my eyes and signed up for my seventh marathon alone, this one in Montreal. Like many others, I started running in 2020, when the pandemic shut down my gym ...

If you have mastered the 5k and 10k distances – and enjoyed the process of doing so – your natural next step might be tackling the half marathon (exciting!). However, while the distance (21.1k) is ...