As a coach, I see it a lot: people who want to be trained for specific goals: a magic number like 3:00 for the marathon, a Boston qualifier, an Olympic Marathon Trials qualifier—whatever. But they don ...

Setting the right marathon pace is one of the biggest things that Laraia talks to his clients about at the outset of training ...

Amy asks: I have been running consistently for about a year now. I have run two 5Ks and am now thinking about training for a half marathon and maybe even a full marathon, but I am intimidated by the ...

LOTS OF NEW runners think of their pace as a badge of honour and a gauge of progress: the faster, the better. But if you’re constantly chasing speed with no strategy, you could be selling yourself ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Train too hard, and you'll probably burn out or get injured. Train too easy and you simply won't make the most of your potential - ...

Now that your foundation is built, you should be challenging yourself with longer runs and faster speeds. By Amanda Loudin If you’re training for a fall marathon, you’ve hopefully built your ...

How many different paces do you use in your speedwork? We all know that if you want to become faster at your favorite distance, you need to do some of your training at faster than race pace, and if ...