The half marathon is one of the most deceptive distances in running. At 13.1 miles it is long enough to punish poor pacing severely, but short enough that it feels manageable on race morning. The result is a distance with a specific and common mistake: starting too fast and paying for it between miles 9 […]
Ask ten runners how they train and most will describe some version of the same approach: run most days, run hard sometimes, run very hard occasionally. It is not wrong exactly. But it leaves enormous amounts of fitness on the table. The reason is that casual effort-based training tends to cluster in a physiological gray
There is a story runners tell themselves after 50, and it goes something like this: the best years are behind you, the times will keep slowing, and the goal now is damage control. Train less, expect less, accept the decline gracefully. The science does not support this story. And neither do the age-grade scores of
