Hiding Exercise in Plain Sight

Most advice about exercise begins with the same assumption: that the modern workday contains an unused, gleaming hour just waiting to be claimed. For me, that hour does not exist. Work expands, meetings multiply, and the plan to exercise “later” can turn into “not today, but tomorrow.” So I have adopted a different approach. Rather ...
A woman does a breathing technique during her run

Just Breathe! Using Breathing Techniques to Reduce Stress, Run Easier and Recover Faster: A Guide by Coach K

When I relocated from the San Francisco Bay Area to the Front Range of Northern Colorado in 2015, I knew I’d have some adjustments to make in the respiratory department. Living at 5,000 feet above sea level, and regularly traveling to higher elevations to train and race, I could feel the strains on my endurance and pace. What I never ...

 The Long Run Part 2: M pace workouts

by Ben Connelly In a previous post, I mentioned that I planned to devote a post to a specific type of long run: the M pace long run. M pace runs figure heavily in marathon training plans based on Jack Daniels’s Running Formula(1). M pace simply means marathon race pace.  While runs at marathon race pace can benefit any runner, even ...