Why Do You Need a Rest Day Training involves progressive overload, gradually increasing the stress on the body during training (distance, duration, intensity). However you can’t just keep increasing stress. Training hard for more than a few consecutive days increases
Converting to Trail Running
Sometimes life doesn’t go quite as you planned. Having successfully completed the Dopey challenge I was planning on continuing with road running, looking at the New York, Marine Corps and London marathons … then what I thought was just a
Should You Run by Distance or Time?
Long story short, there is no black and white answer to the question of if you should run by distance or time. Correctly implemented as part of a training plan, both will result in performance improvements. Personally, I like structure
Returning to Running after Injury
… Injuries suck, just saying … In 2019 it happened, I became one of the 50-80% of runners who suffer a running related injury each year. For me it began at mile 16 of the 2017 Chicago marathon with a