Why the First Rep Always Feels the Hardest
If rep one always feels like your hardest rep, your warm-up failed before the session started. Most runners jog a couple of easy miles, stop, then wonder why they don't arrive until rep three. Book a...
9 Jul 8min
This Summer Will Break You — or Build You
The Pace Trap: the reason your marathon paces fall apart the moment it gets hot — and it isn't the reason you think. If you're chasing sub-3 or sub-3:30 and your summer paces have slipped, you've pro...
7 Jul 12min
Your 5K Says Sub 3 — Your Marathon Says No
An 18:30 5K should mean a comfortable sub-3 marathon. Every race-time calculator is certain of it. So why do so many fast 5K runners keep missing sub-3 — while runners who can't break 19:30 run it eve...
2 Jul 15min
Your Interval Session Is Two Workouts in One
Your VO2max session and your threshold session can be the exact same workout — 8×1K off short rest. What decides which one you actually get is how you run it. Most committed marathoners are training ...
30 Jun 9min
Stop Adding Hard Sessions — Repeat This Instead
You don't need to repeat harder sessions. You need to repeat the boring ones. If you're a serious marathoner who keeps adding the next big workout and still plateauing — this is why. Here's the simple...
28 Jun 14min
How to Train for a Sub-90 Minute Half Marathon
A sub-90 half marathon isn't won on your hard days or your easy days — it's won in the middle, at threshold, the work most runners skip. If you're running 1:32–1:50 for the half now and want to break ...
26 Jun 8min
Sub-3 Marathon: The 2 Numbers That Prove You're Ready
Are you ready to run a sub-3 marathon? Before you commit to a sub-3 training block, there are two numbers that tell you you're ready — not nearly ready, ready. The first: a solo 10K time trial in 40 m...
24 Jun 9min
Same Heart Rate, 2 Min a Mile Faster — How This Marathon Runner Did It
Same heart rate. Two minutes a mile faster. Twenty-two weeks apart. This is what a real marathon training breakthrough looks like when you stop chasing paces and start training the engine. If your wat...
21 Jun 8min
