TRAINING WARNING SIGNS Three Signs Your Running Plan Is Too Hard A plan should challenge you. It should not slowly remove your ability to train. A hard plan is not automatically a good plan Training should create stress. Then you recover and become more capable. When the stress keeps growing and recovery never catches up, … Read more
EASY RUNNING Why Every Run Should Not Be Hard If every run is hard, the week has no room to breathe. Hard running works. Too much hard running breaks the week. Intervals, hills and controlled threshold work can improve fitness. The mistake is treating that fact as permission to push every day. Your body does … Read more
REALISTIC RUNNING PLANS Why Generic Running Plans Fail A plan that ignores your life is not a plan. It is a list of workouts. The problem is not your discipline A generic plan is built for an imaginary runner. That runner sleeps well, has predictable workdays, trains in comfortable weather and never loses a week … Read more