For as long as HillRunner.com has been around, I’ve been asked why there are no training plans posted on the site. You know the type people are asking about, your “12 weeks to a 5K” plan that you can find in many books and on many websites. My usual answer is “Cookie cutter plans work for cookie cutter people and I have yet to meet a cookie cutter person.”
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I’ve been seeing a lot of talk recently about zone 2 running. In a way, this is wonderful. In a way, this is a bit troubling.
Why? Well, it’s wonderful because people are talking about keeping easy runs easy. This is so important. A majority, even significant majority, of your time spent running should be at an easy pace.
…There are a lot of reasons to do non-running work, such as strength training or other forms of what we would just call cross training.
Primarily among those reasons are longevity benefits and injury prevention. Or so we thought.
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I used to think I was both building and showing my toughness when I ran outside in all conditions.
Over the past week or so, we got around 30 inches of snow in about 4.5 days and then some extreme cold settled in. As a result, I’ve been making heavy use of my treadmill.
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Do you have a big goal for 2024? Maybe a performance specific goal, maybe a more process oriented goal?
Whatever the type of goal, if it’s a big goal, you’re most likely to accomplish it if you focus on smaller steps that lead to the goal.
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