Training
Downhill Running: Prepare Your Legs for Race Day
Downhill running can feel aerobically easy while loading your legs. Learn how to introduce descents gradually before a hilly road race.
Build the engine
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Sessions, pacing, fueling, and planning for road runners chasing a stronger PR.
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Running and Strength Training for Heart Health
Why runners should keep two strength days in the week, what mortality studies can and cannot tell us, and how to fit lifting around road training.
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A Workday Running Plan You Can Actually Repeat
Fit running around a full workday with a realistic training window, a shorter backup session, and enough room for sleep and recovery.
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Marathon Training at 71: Lessons in Recovery
Jacob Nur reduced his running and hard sessions while keeping a varied routine. The useful lesson is how he made room to recover, not his exact mileage.
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Hip Extension for Runners: Control Before Load
A simple way to choose between glute bridges, hip hinges, and Romanian deadlifts without treating any one exercise as a running cure.
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Boston Marathon Study: Hard Workouts and Race Times
A study of 917 Boston Marathon finishers links training volume and hard sessions with faster times, but its 16-minute estimate is not a workout prescription.
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Running During Your Period: Let Symptoms Guide You
A period is not an automatic rest day. Learn when an easy run is reasonable, why cycle-based training rules overreach, and which symptoms deserve care.
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Marathon A, B, and C Goals: How to Set Them
Use recent race results, marathon preparation, and race-day conditions to set A, B, and C goals without treating any prediction as a promise.
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Cool-Weather Running: Manage Your Long-Run Load
When fall air makes running feel easier, use your recent long run and next-day response to guide the return to mileage and speed.