9 April 2016

The importance of the easy run

I'm in Portland right now, and I'm not sure how much I'll get to write while I'm gone (I hope to be able to write Sunday's race report while I'm on the train to Seattle on Monday). I prepared this post ahead of time, however. Hope you enjoy it!



I've been running for six years now, and I've done races from a 5K to a marathon several times over. I am an RRCA-certified running coach. I have read countless books on different training methods. I've studied websites, and have tested out training methods on myself. I feel pretty comfortable saying that I'm "experienced", and I feel very confident when I talk about running.

However, there is one key part of training (in nearly every method out there) that I was ALWAYS doing wrong. It wasn't because I didn't know how I was supposed to do it, it was just that it felt counterintuitive, and I felt silly when I did it correctly.

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