runners train hard right up to the day of the marathon because they’re desperately afraid of losing fitness if they don’t," says Bud Baldaro, a Contributing Editor to RUNNER’S WORLD and one of Britain’s leading endurance coaches. "What they don’t realise
the same race again next year. But without an important short-term goal, you don’t run a step for months. Too ambitious You resolve to finish a 10K at 7:30-minute/mile pace, even though you never train faster than nine-minute miling. When you blow up after
