I had a talk with one of you this past weekend about easy runs. It made me realize that I clearly did a poor job stressing the importance of running easy on easy runs. So I’m going to address that here.
The easy run is a critical part of our training. Even elites run roughly 80% of their miles at an easy pace. However, many runners do their easy runs too fast. This increases your risk of injury and takes away from the quality you can get on your hard days. Make sure you’re running them easy enough.
Here’s a blog post I wrote earlier this year on how to do your easy runs.