Last week I was lucky enough to be put through my paces - quite literally - by Martin Yelling, marathon coach and co-founder of Yelling Performance alongside his wife, Liz Yelling, who just happens to ...

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 ...

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 ...

You can’t have a goal time for your half marathon—whether it’s your first or 20th—without a goal pace. An optimal racing strategy requires knowing the right speed to maintain for your race, along with ...

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 ...

Ah, the sub-2-hour half marathon. The midpack runner’s gateway to running glory. Years ago, when I signed up for my first half marathon, I naively turned to Google to find out what a “good” finish ...